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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: FYI: underlining/highlighting in news articles
Message-ID: <1988@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 15:30:56 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  6 15:30:56 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 02:29:57 EST
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Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui)
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>Because of this problem, I've implimented a check in readnews(1) for
>and environment variable PAGESIZE, which determines how big an article
>needs to be before it is sent to PAGER, rather than having it hard-
>coded as `16'.  (Obviously it is set to '0' to assure continuous
>filtering).  This is fairly easy to impliment.
>
>A drawback to this is that if PAGER also contains a program line 'pg'
>or 'more', EVERY article would go thru the PAGER -- icky.
>
>Perhaps there should be a PAGER (use if article is > PAGESIZE) and
>FILTER (use always)?
>
>
>A work-around can be done for this: write a script that does the filtering
>of stdin to a file, and call the editor on that file (removing the
>file afterwards).  Make this your PAGER (but -- see disadvantage
>above).
>
>
>You can filter them before they get to more:
>
>	PAGER="sed -e 's/_^H//' | more"
>
>The editor is still a problem, though.
>
>PS -- my PAGER is "hp | pg" (system V).

Considering the speed with which sites upgrade their software for
significant enhancements trying to get people to hack in changes to make a
questionable feature useful is silly. I'd rather hack in changes that make
a questionable feature safe-- eat _^H, for example, to keep it from messing
up downstream sites...

I promised to be nice and quiet about backspaces in articles, but if people
are going to have to start hacking around to make them useful on their
sites, you need to realize that most people aren't going to bother-- hence
it is simply going to create problems. 

chuq 
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