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From: storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Comment about NN and command keys
Keywords: rn, .newsrc, b&d
Message-ID: <365@texas.dk>
Date: 12 Jul 89 10:43:01 GMT
References: <2228@astroatc.UUCP>
Organization: Texas Instruments, Denmark
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In article <2228@astroatc.UUCP> brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:

>After all I have been reading about nn, I doubt that it will be brought up
>on the system here.  Why?  Personally the problem with having to use caps
>with the major command keys.  That is for the birds.  The user should just
>have to press a key, not also have to press the SHIFT key.

You are only partially correct here...

nn operates in two modes: selection mode and reading mode.

In selection mode, nn displays a menu with about 20 articles at a
time.  Each article is identified by a letter a-z, and the basic way
to select an article to read is to enter this (lowercase) letter.

So in selection mode, the uppercase letters are the only ones left for
the commands.  But this does not matter much, because commands are
rarely used in selection mode (except Q for quit and N for next group).

However in reading mode where the selected articles are shown, the
commands are in lowercase!  Of course, there are also commands in
uppercase (like Q for quit and N for next group), but the common
commands (n for next article, r for reply, etc) are in lowercase.

Anyway, you are free to redefine the key-bindings to place the uppercase
commands on separate keys or even on the corresponding lowercase keys
(although that will prevent you from selecting the articles by their
id - but there are several other ways to do it as well).
-- 
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!