3.7.3 Other Marks
There are some marks that have nothing to do with whether the article is
read or not.
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You can set a bookmark in the current article. Say you are reading a
long thesis on cats' urinary tracts, and have to go home for dinner
before you've finished reading the thesis. You can then set a bookmark
in the article, and Gnus will jump to this bookmark the next time it
encounters the article. See section 3.7.4 Setting Marks.
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All articles that you have replied to or made a followup to (i.e., have
answered) will be marked with an `A' in the second column
(
gnus-replied-mark
).
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All articles that you have forwarded will be marked with an `F' in
the second column (
gnus-forwarded-mark
).
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Articles stored in the article cache will be marked with an `*' in
the second column (
gnus-cached-mark
). See section 3.12 Article Caching.
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Articles "saved" (in some manner or other; not necessarily
religiously) are marked with an `S' in the second column
(
gnus-saved-mark
).
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Articles that according to the server haven't been shown to the user
before are marked with a `N' in the second column
(
gnus-recent-mark
). Note that not all servers support this
mark, in which case it simply never appears. Compare with
gnus-unseen-mark
.
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Articles that haven't been seen before in Gnus by the user are marked
with a `.' in the second column (
gnus-unseen-mark
).
Compare with gnus-recent-mark
.
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When using the Gnus agent (see section 6.8.1 Agent Basics), articles may be
downloaded for unplugged (offline) viewing. If you are using the
`%O' spec, these articles get the `+' mark in that spec.
(The variable
gnus-downloaded-mark
controls which character to
use.)
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When using the Gnus agent (see section 6.8.1 Agent Basics), some articles might
not have been downloaded. Such articles cannot be viewed while you
are unplugged (offline). If you are using the `%O' spec, these
articles get the `-' mark in that spec. (The variable
gnus-undownloaded-mark
controls which character to use.)
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The Gnus agent (see section 6.8.1 Agent Basics) downloads some articles
automatically, but it is also possible to explicitly mark articles for
download, even if they would not be downloaded automatically. Such
explicitly-marked articles get the `%' mark in the first column.
(The variable
gnus-downloadable-mark
controls which character to
use.)
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If the `%e' spec is used, the presence of threads or not will be
marked with
gnus-not-empty-thread-mark
and
gnus-empty-thread-mark
in the third column, respectively.
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Finally we have the process mark (
gnus-process-mark
). A
variety of commands react to the presence of the process mark. For
instance, X u (gnus-uu-decode-uu
) will uudecode and view
all articles that have been marked with the process mark. Articles
marked with the process mark have a `#' in the second column.
You might have noticed that most of these "non-readedness" marks
appear in the second column by default. So if you have a cached, saved,
replied article that you have process-marked, what will that look like?
Nothing much. The precedence rules go as follows: process -> cache ->
replied -> saved. So if the article is in the cache and is replied,
you'll only see the cache mark and not the replied mark.
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