Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!psuhcx!wcf From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: re-reading articles in rn Message-ID: <1188@psuhcx.psu.edu> Date: 23 Mar 89 14:22:46 GMT References: <663@servax0.ESSEX.AC.UK> <185@syteke.UUCP> <1256@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> <1529.orcenl@orcenl.uucp> <1268@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner) Organization: Penn State University Lines: 31 In article <1268@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> "David Wright" writes: |In article <1529.orcenl@orcenl.uucp> news@orcenl.UUCP (News admnr. Bjorn Engsig) writes: |#In article <1256@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> "David Wright" writes: |#>Yes, there are lots of ways to read old articles in rn. .... |#You should add ^N and ^P which are used if you read articles by subject |#threads. But there is still (at least) one case where it is not possible. |#In the newgroup selection level or at the first article in a new group, |#there doesn't seem to be any way to show the last article read (in the previous |#group). | |Yes, that irritates me sometimes too. |You can read the last actual article in the previous group easily though - |q(uit) from current group, - to go back to last group, answer 'y' to "do you |want to read...", then 99999 will read the last actual article in the group |(ignore the complaint "only 1234 articles" prior to it giving you No. 1234). How about $P instead of 99999? You don't get the complaint 'only 1234 articles' that way, and it's a little easier to type. $ makes sure you're after the last article, and P displays the previous article. The $ usually isn't necessary, because when you go into a group that's all read, you're already after the last article. Of course, it may not *really* be the last article you read, if you use ^N... but that's another story. :-) Bill -- Bitnet: wcf@psuhcx.bitnet Bill Fenner | "You are the angel of Internet: wcf@hcx.psu.edu | death, and I am the UUCP: {gatech,rutgers}!psuvax1!psuhcx!wcf | dead man's son." Fido: Sysop at 1:129/87 (814/238 9633) \hogbbs!wcf | -- Pink Floyd