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From: rock%warp@Sun.COM (Bill Petro - SunOS Marketing)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: Another wish for Kim
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Date: 26 Feb 90 23:05:56 GMT
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sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:

>One thing I always wished rn had was a better way to reorder newsgroups.
>What I'd like to see is:

>(while in a newsgroup)
>I type ":place". It then gives me a fullscreen of newsgroups in order of
>presentation. I move to the newsgroup where I wish to move this one, hit
>"p" or "P" (like vi "put before" or "put after") and voila it is now there
>in the presentation sequence.

>Obvious wins would be the ability to quickly deal with new groups, and
>reorder groups as they change in importance to the reader.

>What do you think? About a million hours of work to implement? :-)

Here is a trick that I have used.  If I find a group that I would like
placed somewhere else in the sequence, I use this macro:


	define 1
		prompt "Append group name to group sequence?"
		?no return
		:!echo $G >> ~/.nn/init
		prompt "Edit init file?"
		?no return
		:!vi ~/.nn/init
		redraw
	end
	#bind to ctrl-t in both modes:
	map both  macro 1

Then, by just typing ^T, it will ask if I want to append this group, I
reply "y", and then it will ask me if I want to edit the init file.  I
type "y" again, and move the newsgroup name accordingly.

What I haven't figured out is how to get it to take a "space" rather
than a "y".


     Bill Petro  {decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax}!sun!Eng!rock
"UNIX for the sake of the kingdom of heaven"  Matthew 19:12