Marking Articles

GNUS uses three kinds of marks to indicate article status.

• White space ` ' for newly arrived articles.
• Dash `-' for articles marked as unread.
• Any other characters for articles marked as read.

The status is displayed at the beginning of each line of the Subject buffer. Commands for marking or removing these marks are as follows:

d

Mark article as read, and then move to the next subject (gnus-Subject-mark-as-read-forward).

D

Mark article as read, and then move to the previous subject (gnus-Subject-mark-as-read-backward).

u

Mark article as unread, and then move to the next subject (gnus-Subject-mark-as-unread-forward).

U

Mark article as unread, and then move to the previous subject (gnus-Subject-mark-as-unread-backward).

M-u

Clear marks, and then move to the next subject (gnus-Subject-clear-mark-forward).

M-U

Clear marks, and then move to the previous subject (gnus-Subject-clear-mark-backward).

k

Mark articles with the same subject as the current article as read, and then select the next unread article (gnus-Subject-kill-same-subject-and-select).

C-k

Mark articles with the same subject as the current article as read (gnus-Subject-kill-same-subject).

c

M-x gnus-Subject-catch-up-and-exit

Mark all articles, which are not marked as unread, as read, and then exit the current newsgroup.

M-x gnus-Subject-catch-up-all-and-exit

Mark all articles as read, and then exit the current newsgroup.

M-x gnus-Subject-catch-up

Mark all articles as read, preserving articles marked as unread.

M-x gnus-Subject-catch-up-all

Mark all articles as read.

It is helpful to delete headers marked as read while reading a large newsgroup. The command x (gnus-Subject-delete-marked-as-read) deletes headers marked as read. The command X (gnus-Subject-delete-marked-with) deletes headers which have a specific mark.

x

Delete headers marked as read (gnus-Subject-delete-marked-as-read).

X mark RET

Delete headers marked with mark (gnus-Subject-delete-marked-with).