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From: chip@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: wanted: another macro for 'rn'
Message-ID: <862@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG>
Date: 11 Feb 90 18:24:56 GMT
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palmerp@argus.math.orst.edu (Paul A. Palmer) writes:
>I read groups by following subject threads with the ^N option (In fact, I load
>rn as 'rn -S' which automatically puts me in ^N mode).

Are you explicitly typing the "-S"?  If you are, you might want to try
placing it in an environment variable called RNINIT.

>The problem is, sometimes the threads are LONG. What I'd like to do is to be
>able to determine in advance how long a thread is.

How about this macro:

	@=	/%s/=\n

Which creates a command '@=' which is like '=' but only for the subject
of the current article.
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