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From: todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: A visual interfaces to selecting articles with rn??
Message-ID: <1989Jul5.183619.20293@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Date: 5 Jul 89 18:36:19 GMT
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Organization: Disillusioned Graduate Hackers, Santa Barbara, CA
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lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes:

~I want a more *visual* interface to rn.

I hacked up rn so that it had a subject mode that would show you the
list of subjects so you could kill them before you read them.  I used
this for over six months.  It still has a couple of bugs (not fatal)
that I haven't worked out because I've gone to nn.  I strongly suggest
moving to nn - Graphical interface, minimum keystrokes, does all the
cool things rn did.

My hack of rn basically adds a few state variables... rn may be fast,
but IMHO, it is very poor C code.  I had a hard time hacking it.
My changes are fairly straightforward, and if anyone wants them, I
can either mail them the diffs from rn-patchlevel40 or I can make
the entire source code available via ftp.  Let me know.

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Todd Day | todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us | ivucsb!todd@anise.acc.com
"Santa Barbara - so many babes... so few who will talk to me."