clearing flags on all mails in a mailbox?

[Fred Smith]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 11:08:21AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> [01-21-20 10:59]:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > 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

Patrick, thanks for the hints. Worked like a charm!

Fred

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