Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!armadillo.cis.ohio-state.edu!lum From: lum@armadillo.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lum Johnson) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Culling from subject line listings in rn. Message-ID: <57303@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 10 Aug 89 21:27:09 GMT References: <3136@yunexus.UUCP> Reply-To: Lum JohnsonOrganization: The Ohio State University, IRCC/CIS Joint Computing Laboratory Lines: 47 In article <3136@yunexus.UUCP> tony@yunexus.UUCP (Tony Wallis) writes: >I'm in rn, and it says > "*** 666 unread articles in alt.sox -- read now? [ynq]" >and let's say I'm going to pick out maybe 10 of those to read from >the subject lines. So I type "=" and it gives me the first 23 >subjects (I'm on a VT-100), let's say numbered from 50001 to 50023. >Nothing interesting, so I press space for the next 23, and so on. >Then, aha, a juicy title, say at 50234, and (this is important) I >want to read it *now*. So I read it. Then what ??? > >If I type "=" I'm back reading the earlier subject lines. If I did >(for example) 50001-50023j after the first screen of subjects that >works but it's an ugly solution (it also starts up 50024). There undoubtedly is a better way, but I am not aware of it. However, I will tell you what I do. If I'm wading through hundreds of articles, I use `=', page through the entire `=' display to the end, noting all the articles I want to read, and finish up with: a1,a2,a3,...anM ;; mark them to return cy ;; catch up (yes) Now I can go through the group again with only the interesting articles left. (`rn' will want to do that automatically if you haven't yet read any articles in the newsgroup and there are "returning articles".) This is very fast, because the catch-up is almost instanteous - only the unmarking of the returning articles must be done individually. If I can't spare the time for the huge `=' display, I use: a1,a2,a3,...anM ;; mark some to return b1-bnj ;; junk the range seen and go through as many screens of `=' as my patience will allow, and then quit and return to the newsgroup to actually read some of the ones marked to return. This is much slower, because junking a range of articles marks each one as read individually. Has anyone else found a better way than these? Lum -=- -- Lum Johnson lum@cis.ohio-state.edu lum@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu "You got it kid -- the large print giveth and the small print taketh away." -------