clearing flags on all mails in a mailbox?

[Fred Smith]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 08:47:02AM -0600, Marty Buchaus wrote:
> Default mapping woudl be
> 
> Tag the messages you want to work on.

Yes, I coulda done that but there were A WHOLE LOT of them so I figured
Mutt had a faster way to do it.

Another poster showed me how to do a tag-pattern, which made it easier
to do.

> 
> then hit ;  to act on all tagged messages
> 
> then W  you should see  Clear flag? (D/N/O/r/*/!):
> 
> 
> if you hit w it would be the reverse  (set flag)
> 
> Marty
> 
> On 01/21/20 11:14 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> >* Patrick Shanahan <paka at opensuse.org> [01-21-20 11:09]:
> >>* Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> [01-21-20 10:59]:
> >>>I've got a mailbox with quite a few msgs in it, some I've never read but
> >>>don't want to delete. All those now  have a status flag of "O", so if I
> >>>enter that mailbox when there are no "N" messages in it, mutt goes to the
> >>>first "O" mail.
> >>>One way I can think of to solve this is to clear all the flags, since in
> >>>this case I don't care aobut the flags value.
> >>>It looks as if Mutt has facilities that could be used for that, but I
> >>>haven't figured out how to apply them.
> >>>Can someone show me how to do that?
> >>>Thanks in advance.
> >>tag all of the "O" flagged msgs
> >>"T" will tag a pattern, invoke in directory view, capitol T
> >>pattern would be: ~O
> >>invoke action "W" on tagged, :W
> >>"W" clears flag
> >>issue clear-flag for the tagged msgs
> >two lines beginning with "invoke action" s/b belowe "issue clear-flag" ...
> >clear as muddd  :)
> 
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