John Stoffel wrote at 13:04 -0500 on Jan 18, 2012: > Guys, > > I accidently marked all messages by an author as 'unread', which > was a mistake. Now I want to change them all back to 'read', but I > can't figure out how to do it. M A followed by M N U doesn't do > this in 8.1.1 at all. > > I would have hoped that M N <space> would do it, since you can hit > spacebar to read any message and change it's status. > > Any hints for someone who's too dumb to figure this out?
How about M A like you did, then: M N . or M N a read [1] or M N M-x vm-set-message-attributes read To see key bindings in the summary, switch to a summary window, then "M-x describe-bindings" or "f1 b". Then you can search in the help window (for "read" in your case or "mark.*read" with a regex search). Of course, if you notice your mistake right away, vm-undo (C-x u) can help you. [1] Note the 'a' binding was removed from the default set of bindings in 8.2.0(?). To restore that, use vm-legacy-key-bindings. Of the key binding that were removed, I use 'b' and 'a' a lot and 'L' a few times a week.
