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#### 3.27.2 Searching for Articles

`M-s`

  Search through all subsequent (raw) articles for a regexp (`gnus-summary-search-article-forward`).

`M-r`

  Search through all previous (raw) articles for a regexp (`gnus-summary-search-article-backward`).

`M-S`

  Repeat the previous search forwards (`gnus-summary-repeat-search-article-forward`).

`M-R`

  Repeat the previous search backwards (`gnus-summary-repeat-search-article-backward`).

`&`

  This command will prompt you for a header, a regular expression to match on this field, and a command to be executed if the match is made (`gnus-summary-execute-command`). If the header is an empty string, the match is done on the entire article. If given a prefix, search backward instead.

  For instance, `& RET some.*string RET #` will put the process mark on all articles that have heads or bodies that match ‘`some.*string`’.

`M-&`

  Perform any operation on all articles that have been marked with the process mark (`gnus-summary-universal-argument`).