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From: bob@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,news.software.b
Subject: rn kill file status display efficiency
Summary: I want to get past "ethack" quickly
Message-ID: <5365@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 88 04:32:35 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science
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Using rn 4.3.1.4, I come upon a newsgroup in which there are some
number N unread articles.  I agree that I'd like to read those
articles of interest to me in that newsgroup.  rn proceeds to show me
the items in my kill file, and how many articles were killed courtesy
of the existence of that line.  This is a wonderful feature!  For
example, if some number M unread articles in comp.sources.bugs had
"ethack" in their Subject: lines, each article would be reported as
killed and I wouldn't be bothered to read those articles.

However, my kill file in that newsgroup is very long and "ethack" is
near the top.  What if N==M?  Even if all N unread articles were
killed fairly early, I am still presented with each other line in my
kill file.

How can I encourage rn to count how many articles have been killed so
far, and if that matches the number of unread articles it saw when I
started that newsgroup, I should go on to the next group without
bothering to check all the rest of the kill file?  Is there a macro or
switch or environment variable I'm missing?  Is it already changed in
a more recent release than that which I'm running?  (point me to it!)
Will it be a new feature in 5.0?

Mind you, Larry, I'm not complaining, just yearning for a bit more
polish on very nice tool.  Thanks for any help from anyone!
-- 
 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
 The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277
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