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Other Marks
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There are some marks that have nothing to do with whether the
article is read or not.
* You can set a bookmark in the current article. Say you are
reading a long thesis on cats' urinary tracts, and have to go home
for dinner before you've finished reading the thesis. You can
then set a bookmark in the article, and Gnus will jump to this
bookmark the next time it encounters the article.
* All articles that you have replied to or made a followup to (i.e.,
have answered) will be marked with an `A' in the second column
(`gnus-replied-mark').
* Articles that are stored in the article cache will be marked with
an `*' in the second column (`gnus-cached-mark').
* Articles that are "saved" (in some manner or other; not necessarily
religiously) are marked with an `S' in the second column
(`gnus-saved-mark'.
* It the `%e' spec is used, the presence of threads or not will be
marked with `gnus-not-empty-thread-mark' and
`gnus-empty-thread-mark' in the third column, respectively.
* Finally we have the "process mark" (`gnus-process-mark'. A
variety of commands react to the presence of the process mark. For
instance, `X u' (`gnus-uu-decode-uu') will uudecode and view all
articles that have been marked with the process mark. Articles
marked with the process mark have a `#' in the second column.
You might have noticed that most of these "non-readedness" marks
appear in the second column by default. So if you have a cached, saved,
replied article that you have process-marked, what will that look like?
Nothing much. The precedence rules go as follows: process -> cache
-> replied -> saved. So if the article is in the cache and is replied,
you'll only see the cache mark and not the replied mark.