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Re: using a macro command on tagged messages?



On Nov 23, 2006 at  8:37 pm, Daniel Vrcic wrote:
| * Peter Scott <drip@xxxxxxxx> [06-11-23 09:12]:
| [...]
| > I can tag all messages containing the pattern "UNSURE"
| > using "T", and that works fine, but when I then try ";S",
| > the "S" macro command will apply only to the message I
| > happen to be sitting at, and not to all the tagged
| > messages.
| [...]
| 
| >From the documentation: 
| 
| | 3.16. auto_tag
| | 
| | Type: boolean
| | Default: no
| | 
| | When set, functions in the index menu which affect a message will be
| | applied to all tagged messages (if there are any). When unset, you must
| | first use the tag-prefix function (default: ";") to make the next
| | function apply to all tagged messages.
| 
| -- 
| Daniel Vrcic
| 

Thanks Daniel, this fixes it.  I did not understand (and maybe
still don't!) exactly why setting auto_tag works while leaving
it unset doesn't, but your solution to my problem works anyway.

    -- Peter