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From: storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: How do you use nn?
Keywords: nn rn
Message-ID: <349@texas.dk>
Date: 4 Jul 89 10:33:10 GMT
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Organization: Texas Instruments, Denmark
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jeffrey@algor2.UUCP (Jeffrey Kegler) writes:


>What is a typical user session with nn like?  Are you forced to
>dispose of a newsgroup entirely, or leave it entirely untouched,
>possibly having to wade through many articles you have already read
>when you revisit?

In principle yes, but you can use the 'N' command to go to the next group,
and nn will remember how far you got selecting articles from the menu/
reading the articles you  have selected, and offer you to 'use old
selections' when you enter the group next time (or uses it silently if
you reenter it in the same invokation of nn).

>nn is a very impressive effort.  At this point I find it to be like
>the play Hamlet.  Clearly a brilliant effort, but otherwise completely
>perplexing.  I feel I must be missing something.  Should I alter my
>newsreading style?  Do I need to, in order to use nn?

Perhaps it is your reading style that is perplexing :-)
I don't think nn is very well suited for your reading style.  So either
you adapt to nn's linear style, or you stick to rn.

-- 
Kim F. Storm        storm@texas.dk        Tel +45 429 174 00
Texas Instruments, Marielundvej 46E, DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark
	  No news is good news, but nn is better!