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From: oliver@athena.mit.edu (James D. Oliver III)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How do I limit display to headers?
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Date: 18 Sep 89 08:00:55 GMT
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In article <3917@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> leo@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (leonard.oppenheimer,hr,) writes:
>When using rn, I would like to be able to display the header only, and then
>hit <space> if I want to read the article.  The way it is now, I always get
>the whole first page, which is a pain on this machine as it is very slow.

At the prompt for the group, hit the "=", key, which will display
the subject lines for the articles.  Also, in my RNINIT file, I have
the following command, which prints out a more detailed subject line
including the number of lines and the author 



-ESUBJLINE="\
 %(%[subject]                                             \
 =^\\(..............................................\\)?\
 %1:%[subject]) \
 %(%(%[lines]=^$?%z:  (%[lines]\\))= *\\(.....\\)$\\|\\(.*\\)?%0) \
 %(%(%f=(\\(.*[^ ].*\\))$?%1:%f)                   \
 =^\\(...................\\)?%1)"


(I didn't write this, I got it from a posting in news.misc, and
unfortunately don't know who did).  Rn seems to run a little slower with
the expanded subject lines, though.


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