clearing flags on all mails in a mailbox?

[Patrick Shanahan]

* Marty Buchaus <marty at dabuke.com> [01-23-20 17:20]:
> Default mapping woudl be
> 
> Tag the messages you want to work on.
> 
> 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  :)

and besides, why private mail me and also post to the list and I wasn't
even the OP.  But I guess that is how a "linux engineer" would address a
problem.

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