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From: jpdres10@usl-pc.UUCP (Green Eric Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Emacs rnews...
Message-ID: <44@usl-pc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 16:45:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 21 16:45:02 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Sep-87 05:10:52 EDT
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A suggestion or two for someone fluent in Emacs Lisp, or for
potential newsreader authors:

Have an interface similiar to diredit. That is, when you go to a
newsgroup, have the newsreader pull up the title and author of each
new article. Bind some keys for marking which articles you want to
read, or for directly reading an article (a' la' "vn"), bind the
move-up and move-down keys so that they'll take you up and down in the
list (going in and fetching headers when you don't already have
headers handy), "rn"-style follow-subject, but with visual interface,
e.g. issue a "follow-subject-forward", and it "marks" all the forward
stuff on that particular topic... and of course some keys for either
moving back and forth to the next or previous newsgroup, or pulling up
an actual newsgroup list along with the number of new articles in that
newsgroup, and deciding which newsgroup you want in the same manner as
you decide which article you want...

--
Eric Green  elg@usl.CSNET           day is done, the song is over,
{akgua,killer}!usl!elg              thought I'd something more to say....
P.O. Box 92191                               --PF
Lafayette, LA 70509