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From: mackeown@CompSci.Bristol.AC.UK (W. Mackeown)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: rn '=' command (was Re: comp.sys.amiga.questions)
Summary: .-$=
Message-ID: <1318@csisles.Bristol.AC.UK>
Date: 22 Jan 90 20:18:30 GMT
References: <25508@cup.portal.com> <574@sagpd1.UUCP> <132.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> <38@amenra.sundry.UUCP>
Reply-To: mackeown@csisles.UUCP (W. Mackeown)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK.
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>>In article <574@sagpd1.UUCP> Monty Saine writes:
 >>> To the writers of news software in general: is there a reader out there
 >>> that allows a function like the "=" function but starting at the current
 >>> article? When there are 200 plus articles it is a pain to have to go back

>In article <132.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin) writes:
 >>A weak solution, but: in 'rn', you can specify a range for the '='
 >>command.  If you've scanned articles 500-550, you can use '551-$='.  3
 >>weaknesses: it doesn't pay attention to your 'SUBJLINE' environment

In article <38@amenra.sundry.UUCP> stant%sundry@atc.boeing.com (Stan Tazuma) writes:
>I've wanted the same thing for about 2-3 years.  Recently, I decided to fix
>rn to do this.  I added a new command (the ' key) which is exactly like the '='
>command except that it lists from the "current" article.   "current" means

How about '.-$=' in rn ?  It ignores the SUBJLINE environment but at least
it lists the subjects starting from the current article. Interrupts don't
work.

William Mackeown