Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!tidk!storm From: storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: news.software.nn Subject: Re: G whiz Keywords: confusion Message-ID: <468@texas.dk> Date: 16 Feb 90 18:00:10 GMT References: <1658@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> Organization: Texas Instruments, Denmark Lines: 32 wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) writes: >I'm somewhat confused by the G command. Often I want to go back >to read articles in the same group I am in. If I G, >sometimes I get an equal sign (for a subject regexp) and other >times I get the minimenu of: all, unread, subject. Actually, it is quite simple: If there are more articles (read or unread) in the group than is presently shown on the menu, the G command will give you the menu, and you can choose whether you want to include some more articles or search for a subject. If there are no extra articles in the group, the only choice you would have on the menu is to search for a subject, so that is what it assumes you are going to do. So it skips the menu, and goes directly to the "enter subject" prompt (the = sign). >What controls which I get, and how can I force the menu to be >displayed? Sometimes not even specifying the group by name will >do it, and I must exit nn and reenter via nn-g. The only other purpose for which you might want the menu to appear to be able to DECREASE the number of articles on the menu. However, that is not possible, so what would you use the menu for? -- Kim F. Storm storm@texas.dk Tel +45 429 174 00 Texas Instruments, Marielundvej 46E, DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark No news is good news, but nn is better!