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From: filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.groups,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: rn '=' command (was Re: comp.sys.amiga.questions)
Message-ID: <132.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Date: 5 Jan 90 17:26:52 GMT
References: <25508@cup.portal.com> <574@sagpd1.UUCP>
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In article <574@sagpd1.UUCP> Monty Saine writes:
>	To the writers of news software in general: is there a reader out there
>    that allows a function like the "=" function but starting at the current
>    article? When there are 200 plus articles it is a pain to have to go back
>    to the beginning each time you want to view the subject line summary.

A weak solution, but: in 'rn', you can specify a range for the '='
command.  If you've scanned articles 500-550, you can use '551-$='.  3
weaknesses: it doesn't pay attention to your 'SUBJLINE' environment
setting; it doesn't do page pauses; and you get to type in the number of
the current message.  It's better than nothing, though.

A friend has some patches to 'rn' which help a bit: they add a new
command which is like '=' but lists only new messages (those that are
not 'Re: something').

You might want to look into 'vnews', whose basic interface is a
full-screen approximation of the rn '=' command.  You pick the messages
you want to read.

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