Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck
From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Paging in rn
Message-ID: <2381@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 11 Aug 88 17:14:02 GMT
References: <229@ssbn.WLK.COM>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
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Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <229@ssbn.WLK.COM> bill@carpet.UUCP (Bill Kennedy) writes:
>Being a SysV type I became accustomed to pg which uses Return for the next
>page as opposed to more which uses a space. Since pg is my mail pager I
>was always hitting space when pg wanted Return and vice versa in rn. Today
>I lost my patience and changed it in rn. If you replace case '\n': on line
>704 in art.c with case ' ': and case ' ': on line 829 with case '\n': you
>will reverse the meaning of the two characters.
rn has redefinable keys. It was unnecessary for you to modify the
code to get the effect you wanted. As gently as possible, I'd like to
suggest that people actually understand a program before they attempt
to change it. (If I were not interested in gentleness, I'd simply say
"RTFM"). I repeatedly see people ask for patches or code changes to
make news 2.11 or rn do things they do already. Both programs have a
great deal of flexibility.
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