deg (10/22/82)
In a similar vein, I wonder if I am using readnews correctly. I usually do not know if I want to respond or follow-up an article until after I have read it. If, however, it was the last article in its newsgroup, readnews moves on to the next group, and it is impossible to back up. I could go in with 'readnews -x' if I remembered which group I was reading last (oops! scrolled off the screen), or I could edit my .newsrc, but there ought to be a mode where the opportunity to respond to an article was offered AFTER reading it. While I am griping, I am also a little annoyed by 'readnews' paging. If an article is long it politely says -MORE- to let me read the stuff before it vanishes off the top of the terminal, EXCEPT at the end of the article, where it finishes and prints the header of the next article, forcing me to roll down the screen to see the first stuff. (on the other hand, this way saves one keypress) D. Good (iwsl1!deg)
sjb (10/23/82)
e- works the way you expect it too. Also, instead of saying 'N' or ###, use the '+' command to skip the current article but not record that you read it.
sjb (10/23/82)
r- and f- work fine across newsgroup boundaries (i.e. when you enter a new group after reading the last article of the old one) For that matter, so does '-' to my experience. '-' breaks when you try to back up to an article submitted to more than one group and also when you try to back up to an article submitted locally.
puder (10/25/82)
I too noticed that readnews didn't MORE very well at the end of articles. I fixed this at first by typing 'd' instead of ' ' (space), but later found out about the PAGER variable, which can be set up to tell \fBmore\fP that you want to use a small page size. I do setenv PAGER '/usr/ucb/ul|/usr/ucb/more -12' so I don't have to remember to not type a space.