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From: tower@mit-prep.ARPA (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.notes
Subject: Re: Walter's news interface (notes) (Another readnews style interface)
Message-ID: <55@mit-prep.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 9-Jul-86 11:13:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  9 11:13:24 1986
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   Programs that I know of that run in parallel to 'readnews' (e.g. the 'news'
   message saving structure (/usr/spool/news/<group>/<article-number> (as in
   "/usr/spool/news/net/news/adm/549) and /usr/local/lib/news/active)) are;

	   rn	- The program I'm using now (Hurrah!)
	   vnews	- A visual 'news' interface
	   readnews- The low-level old interface

	      ???

rnews-mode in GNU Emacs uses the 'news' message saving structure.  It
displays a full message in one Emacs buffer, ignoring a user specified
set of header lines.  It isn't fully compatible with the other above
mention readers.  rnews-mode is volunteer/donated code and is written
in GNU Emacs Lisp.

There is a separate post-news-mode which uses inews to actually post
the news.  The help buffers follows for the curious.

Len

----------------------------------------------------------------------
NEWS Mode:
News Mode is used by M-x rnews for editing News files.
All normal editing commands are turned off.
Instead, these commands are available:

.	move point to front of this news article (same as Meta-<).
Space	scroll to next screen of this news article.
Delete  scroll down previous page of this news article.
n	move to next news article, possibly next group.
p	move to previous news article, possibly previous group.
j	jump to news article specified by numeric position.
M-j     jump to news group.
M-n     goto next news group.
M-p     goto previous news group.
l       list all the news groups with current status.
?       print this help message.
g       get new net news.
f       post follow-up article to the net.
a       post a news article.
A       add a newsgroup. 
o	save the current article in the named file (append if file exists).
c       "copy" (actually link) current or prefix-arg msg to file.
	warning: target directory and message file must be on same device
		(UNIX magic)
t       show all the headers this news article originally had.
q	quit reading news after updating .newsrc file.
e	exit updating .newsrc file.
m	mail a news article.  Same as C-x 4 m.
x       update last message seen to be the current message.
r	reply to this news article.  Like m but initializes some fields.
u       unsubscribe from current newsgroup.
U       unsubscribe from specified newsgroup.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
News Mode:
Major mode for editing news to be posted on netnews.
Like Text Mode but with these additional commands:

C-c             Prefix Command
TAB             indent-relative
ESC             Prefix Command

C-c C-s         news-inews
C-c C-c         news-inews
C-c y           mail-yank-original
C-c s           mail-subject
C-c c           mail-cc
C-c b           mail-bcc
C-c t           mail-to
C-c ?           describe-mode

ESC S           center-paragraph
ESC s           center-line
-- 
Len Tower
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