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From: neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP (Paul Neubauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: vn verses vnews
Message-ID: <4369@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 03:57:21 GMT
References: <632@convex.UUCP> <2743@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU> <2486@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <4866@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP (Paul Neubauer)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <4866@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff) writes:
+In article <2486@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> julian@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Julian Cowley) writes:
+>  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.
+
+I agree, this is the feature I'd really like to see.  As it is, I press =,

While we're on the subject of features or misfeatures of rn, the one that
has always bugged me is the difficulty involved in seeing articles that you
have ALREADY read.  I have used the 'h' and have RTFM, but I always seem to
find myself editing the .newsrc file.  If there are UNread articles
remaining in the newsgroup, I can simply type in numbers to get previously
read articles (though I often have to do some guessing because I cannot
always remember the number of the article that I so rashly allowed to be
marked as read).  However, if I happened to hit 'j' on the LAST article of a
newsgroup that I had been flipping through, I am left at the 'End of
newsgroup foo, what now?' prompt and seem to have no access to any of the
preceding articles unless I quit and edit the .newsrc.

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Paul Neubauer         neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP
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