Pine commands

Selecting messages for aggregate operations

Aggregate operations give you the ability to process a group of messages at once. Acting on multiple messages requires two steps:

selecting a set of messages
applying a command to that set

The first part is handled by the select (;) command. Select allows you to select messages based on their status (read, answered, and so on), contents (including fielded selections on header lines) or date. You also get certain quick options to select a specific message or range of messages, to select the current message or to select all messages.

After you have an initial selection, the select command changes. It gives you selection ``alteration'' options: unselect all, unselect current, broaden (implements a logical OR), and narrow (implements a logical AND). You are allowed to use select as many times as you need to get the selected set right.

Also, the WhereIs (W) command has a feature (<Ctrl>X) to select all the messages which match the WhereIs search. WhereIs searches through just the text which appears on the FOLDER INDEX.

The availability of the aggregate operations commands is determined by the enable-aggregate-command-set feature-list option in your Pine configuration.