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When Rmail displays a message that does not fit on the screen, you must scroll through it to read the rest. You could do this with C-v, M-v and M-<, but in Rmail scrolling is so frequent that it deserves to be easier.
Scroll forward (scroll-up-command
).
Scroll backward (scroll-down-command
).
Scroll to start of message (rmail-beginning-of-message
).
Scroll to end of message (rmail-end-of-message
).
Since the most common thing to do while reading a message is to
scroll through it by screenfuls, Rmail makes SPC and DEL
do the same as C-v (scroll-up-command
) and M-v
(scroll-down-command
) respectively.
The command . (rmail-beginning-of-message
) scrolls back to the
beginning of the selected message. This is not quite the same as M-<:
for one thing, it does not set the mark; for another, it resets the buffer
boundaries of the current message if you have changed them. Similarly,
the command / (rmail-end-of-message
) scrolls forward to the end
of the selected message.