Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!uhccux!julian
From: julian@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Julian Cowley)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: vn verses vnews
Message-ID: <2486@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 88 23:20:32 GMT
References: <632@convex.UUCP> <2743@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: julian@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Julian Cowley)
Organization: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Lines: 21

In article <2743@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU> rwl@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Ray Lubinsky) writes:
>Rn is not full-screen oriented; it would be just as happy if you were on a
>DECwriter and assumes no more.  It has lots of functionality (I always like
>Larry Wall's stuff), but I never would use most of it any way -- I just want
>an interface that doesn't keep my eyes jumping around the screen looking for
>things.
>
>For one, I'd love to see a news-reading offspring of vn and vnews.

There are good points and bad points to both vn and rn.  Usually I end
up drifting between the two to take advantage of both features, but it
would be great to see them combined into one program.  The feature I'd
like to see most in rn is if someone added in the full-screen
capability, where one could view all the articles of a newsgroup a
screen at a time and move the cursor to the article that you want to read.
Actually, that's about the only feature that rn is really missing.

Julian Cowley, University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu, HI)
julian@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
{uunet,ucbvax}!ucsd!nosc!uhccux!julian
julian@uhccux.bitnet