det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) (03/07/88)
I'm sure that i'm not the first one to have seen this, but i've seen a lot of discussion on other bugs and never any mention of this one. Probably because it doesn't affect anything (like running out space, etc..). If i'm reading an article and i then type "l" to get a list of the rest of the unread articles (obstensibly to see if my followup that i'm about to make has already been nullified by someone else's) (still think that there should be some sort of command, like "p" finds a parent article, maybe "d" to find all daughter articles, but i seriously digress (:-)), and discover that i can followup anyway and type an "f" to followup, the included text will not be the article that i was reading that is currently displayed on the screen, but rather the last article listed in the summary produced by the "l" command. Most annoying. There doesn't seem to be any way around this but to exit News and re-enter. Any ideas on a patch or will the new News fix this and render any effort in this direction wasted?
mike@ists (Mike Clarkson) (03/12/88)
In article <109@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>, det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes: > If i'm reading an article and i then type "l" to get a list of the rest of the > unread articles (obstensibly to see if my followup that i'm about to make has > already been nullified by someone else's) ... and discover that i can > followup anyway and type an "f" to followup, the included text will not be the > article that i was reading that is currently displayed on the screen, but > rather the last article listed in the summary produced by the "l" command. > Most annoying. There doesn't seem to be any way around this but to exit News > and re-enter. (Note: I assume you're referring to vnews.) The workaround is to explicitly select the article again with 123A for article 123, then followup. But where's the bug? This never happened before I (fool that I am) upgraded from patch level 8 to 14. Any ideas? -- Mike Clarkson mike@ists.UUCP Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science York University, North York, Ontario, CANADA M3J 1P3 (416) 736-5611