Contributors: Neklan <neklan@euclid.mlnet.com>,
        Wayne Davison <trn@clari.net>,
        Ian T. Zimmerman <itz@crl.com>, Mike Castle <mcastle@umr.edu>

> Say you are reading a news group, and you've selected thread A with 4
> posts and thread B with 6 posts and thread C with 7 posts. You read A,
> and don't want to keep it... fine. Then you read a couple of articles in
> B and realize you want to archive the entire thread.
>
> If I went back to the thread selector and did :s file.name  I'd also
> wind up saving thread C.  But at that point I'm not sure if I want to
> archive that thread!
>
> Is there a way to archive the particular thread that you are currently
> on without also getting other threads that happened to be selected at
> the time?

Not without some extra work.  You have a couple options, if you find the
thread savable, go on to the next threads via '>', and after reading it
you will eventually be returned to thread 'B', at which point you know
that only the threads you decided to leave with '>' are left, and you
can use :s right from the article prompt.

Alternately, visit the selector, press 'E' to exclude all non-selected
threads, and press 'M' on each thread that you don't want to save.
After using :s to save the threads you do want, press 'Y' to yank back
the other threads.

Trn 3.6 has a single-thread command similar to ":cmd" that makes this easy.

Unfortunately, if you exhaust all the articles in B (read them to the
end) before deciding on saving that thread, they're marked as read, and
you have to use 'U' to get them back. You could design a macro to help
by automating the retrieval keystrokes, though it's possible that if you
read the same thread the next day, you'll save the same messages twice.

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