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From: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Read your news with Emacs -- sources offered
Message-ID: <5567@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Dec-83 09:23:15 EST
Article-I.D.: mcvax.5567
Posted: Thu Dec 22 09:23:15 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Dec-83 10:37:56 EST
Organization: Math.Centre, Amsterdam
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I have written a package which reads news with the use of (Gosling's)
Emacs.

It uses two C programs to scan the news index and update ".newsrc".  It
implements analogons of readnews' -, n, e, N, U, s, f, r, H, q, x and ?
commands, and some of its own -- and of course a uniform way to skip to
the next page or article.

Of course, the fun is that the first lines of an article are
immediately shown; that there is no difference between 'readnews' mode
and 'more' mode; and that it interfaces with Emacs, so you can e.g. run
a compilation in a background window and read your news while you
wait.

If there are any requests (by mail!), I will post to net.sources.

Guido van Rossum, {philabs,decvax}!mcvax!guido
Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, (CWI, formerly MC), Amsterdam