You can use *a, but this only selects conversations on the current page. I'd like to select all conversations without using the mouse, IE to delete hundreds of emails from a specific sender.
Gmail keyboard shortcut to “select all conversations that match this search”
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You should get a message at the top of the search results that reads;
Select all conversations that match this search
Hope this helps.
You need to manually enable Shortcuts in Gmail by:
- Go to Settings > General > Keyboard Shortcuts and check 'Enable Keyboard Shortcuts'. Click Save
Now press ? on your keyboard to see a list of shortcuts you can use, or go here.
By default, press o or Enter to open the 'conversation' or email.
To use Space as the key to open emails:
Go to Settings > Labs > Custom Keyboard Shortcuts. Check enable.
Go to Settings (again) > Keyboard Shortcuts (it will be a new tab, near to 'Labs').
Go to 'Open conversation'. In the 'or' box, type in
\32which is the ASCII code for space bar.
Now, you will be able to open emails with space bar (it worked for me!).
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I can't find a way to do this easily without the mouse, the "Select all conversations..." link isn't even selectable by using the Tab key, so you can't get around it that way.
I think the best you can do is keep on pressing *a, then #, then *a, then #...