laura (08/11/82)
If someone is going to do something massive to b news to change how it interprets whether a user has read an article or still needs to see it in connection with Notes, then I would like to get my word in for another feature that does not strike me as horribly difficult to put in at this time. Given that I want to reference an article which I have already read and know is 'about 5 articles back ' then I would like to be able to type 'z5' and see readnews forget about the last 5 articles I have read and show me the fifth last article I have read, to be followed by the fourth last, and the third last. Right now, if I have that problem I have to get out of readnews, edit my .newsrc, and go back in. If I want an article I read last week which is probably 30 articles back, I probably dont want to reread the 30 articles which will put me back to today, so I usually note where I was when I decided that I wanted an ealier article, and then, after rereading the wanted article, leave news to re-edit my .newsrc. This ability to temporarily forget that one has read an article I would find extremely useful -- is it built into Notes? (Please note -- anyone out there who has a marvellous hack to csh to let them do this cant really help me since I dont *have* a csh, just a Bourne shell) Laura Creighton decvax!utzoo!laura
lepreau (08/13/82)
Well, you can sort of do that in B news-- it's always been possible to
give an explicit article number to the [ynq] prompt, if it's in the same
newsgroup. It does not "forget" that you read the articles in between,
however, as the next (after you see the specifically requested one)
article will be the current one. Specifying the article number changes
the location of '-' also. One can "permanently forget" having seen an
article via the erase ('e') cmd, then '+'.
However, there is a bug in the current B news which prevents you from
explicitly specifying (via its number or '-') an article which has
multiple newsgroups. I'm sure it will be fixed in the next release.
-Jay Lepreau