Re: [Evolution] Keystroke approach to "mark all as read"?

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 21:57 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 20:38 -0500, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> > Thanks, Ron. But that only does one at a time; I'm thinking about a
> > window's worth at a time -- the keyboard equivalent of Folder=>Mark
> > Messages as Read. The only way I can see to do that now would be first
> > to select all (ctrl-a), then use your ctrl-k. Some email clients will
> > allow a ctrl-something to mark all read without having to select all
> > first.
> 
> Technically, ^K marks *highlighted* records.  If you simply click
> on a message, you're only highlighting 1 record.
> 
> I'm so used to doing ^A to select all emails, that I'm surprised 
> to notice in v2.4 that there isn't an Edit->"Select All" emails.

Ah, here we go:
    Folder->"Select All Messages"
    Folder->"Mark Messages As Read"

> Does typing ^A instead of ctrl-a mark me as a greybeard?
> 

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