brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) (07/07/89)
After all I have been reading about nn, I doubt that it will be brought up on the system here. Why? Personally the problem with having to use caps with the major command keys. That is for the birds. The user should just have to press a key, not also have to press the SHIFT key. Why was the cap scheme used? -- harvard\ att!nicmad\ Vidiot ucbvax!uwvax..........!astroatc!brown rutgers/ decvax!nicmad/ ARPA/INTERNET: brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu
rock%warp@Sun.COM (Bill Petro) (07/08/89)
brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: >After all I have been reading about nn, I doubt that it will be brought up >on the system here. Why? Personally the problem with having to use caps >with the major command keys. That is for the birds. The user should just >have to press a key, not also have to press the SHIFT key. >Why was the cap scheme used? >-- > harvard\ att!nicmad\ >Vidiot ucbvax!uwvax..........!astroatc!brown > rutgers/ decvax!nicmad/ > ARPA/INTERNET: brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu Why not remap the keys? I have done this to preserve the "vi" cursor key functionality and to keep my fingers on home row: -- From ~/.nn/init map menu j line+1 map menu k line-1 map menu A select-subject map menu J select Of course, I cannot select a menu item "j" or "k", but you can't have it all. Where would you put it all? {decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax}!sun!warp!rock Bill Petro
jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) (07/08/89)
brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: >After all I have been reading about nn, I doubt that it will be brought up >on the system here. Why? Personally the problem with having to use caps >with the major command keys. That is for the birds. The user should just >have to press a key, not also have to press the SHIFT key. >Why was the cap scheme used? From a user's point of view, the lower case letters are used to select articles, the upper case letters are commands. I would like to see the articles selected by number (what happens if there are more than 26 articles?), and all letters (upper and lower) become commands. JB -- Jonathan Bayer Beware: The light at the end of the Intelligent Software Products, Inc. tunnel may be an oncoming dragon 500 Oakwood Ave. ...uunet!ispi!root Roselle Park, NJ 07204 (201) 245-5922 jbayer@ispi.UUCP
storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm) (07/12/89)
In article <2228@astroatc.UUCP> brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: >After all I have been reading about nn, I doubt that it will be brought up >on the system here. Why? Personally the problem with having to use caps >with the major command keys. That is for the birds. The user should just >have to press a key, not also have to press the SHIFT key. You are only partially correct here... nn operates in two modes: selection mode and reading mode. In selection mode, nn displays a menu with about 20 articles at a time. Each article is identified by a letter a-z, and the basic way to select an article to read is to enter this (lowercase) letter. So in selection mode, the uppercase letters are the only ones left for the commands. But this does not matter much, because commands are rarely used in selection mode (except Q for quit and N for next group). However in reading mode where the selected articles are shown, the commands are in lowercase! Of course, there are also commands in uppercase (like Q for quit and N for next group), but the common commands (n for next article, r for reply, etc) are in lowercase. Anyway, you are free to redefine the key-bindings to place the uppercase commands on separate keys or even on the corresponding lowercase keys (although that will prevent you from selecting the articles by their id - but there are several other ways to do it as well). -- Kim F. Storm storm@texas.dk Tel +45 429 174 00 Texas Instruments, Marielundvej 46E, DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark No news is good news, but nn is better!
storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm) (07/12/89)
In article <667@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes: >I would like to see the articles selected by number (what happens if >there are more than 26 articles?) Normally (on a 24x80 VDU), nn only shows 20 articles on the menu at a time, so there is "never" more than 26 articles. However, if your screen is large enough to display more than 26 menu lines at the same time, nn will use 0 through 9 to identify 10 more articles (a total of 36 articles on the menu), and stop at that! If there are still more lines left on the screen, they will be used as a preview window. I ran nn on a 64 line terminal for a year, and I can really recommend it! -- Kim F. Storm storm@texas.dk Tel +45 429 174 00 Texas Instruments, Marielundvej 46E, DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark No news is good news, but nn is better!