jpdres10@usl-pc.UUCP (Green Eric Lee) (09/21/87)
A suggestion or two for someone fluent in Emacs Lisp, or for
potential newsreader authors:
Have an interface similiar to diredit. That is, when you go to a
newsgroup, have the newsreader pull up the title and author of each
new article. Bind some keys for marking which articles you want to
read, or for directly reading an article (a' la' "vn"), bind the
move-up and move-down keys so that they'll take you up and down in the
list (going in and fetching headers when you don't already have
headers handy), "rn"-style follow-subject, but with visual interface,
e.g. issue a "follow-subject-forward", and it "marks" all the forward
stuff on that particular topic... and of course some keys for either
moving back and forth to the next or previous newsgroup, or pulling up
an actual newsgroup list along with the number of new articles in that
newsgroup, and deciding which newsgroup you want in the same manner as
you decide which article you want...
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Lafayette, LA 70509mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) (09/29/87)
Such an interface already exists here at CMU. It's called BAGS, and it was written by Nathaniel Borenstein (now of the Andrew Message System group) in Mocklisp under Unipress/Gosling Emacs. Two clones of it currently run under Unipress Emacs under the Andrew workstation environment. Basically it presents two windows on the screen, one with the headers of the messages and one to view the message. N and P move back and forth through the headers, <space> views/scrolls, M calls up a buffer to send mail...you get the idea. Much nicer than any of the standard Unix mail garbage, even if it does run under Gosmacs. Mike Portuesi / Carnegie-Mellon University ARPA/UUCP: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET: rainwalker@drycas (a uVax-1 run by CMU Computer Club...tons o' fun) "that you were ever tempted by the lie...that there's an answer in the sky" --Echo and the Bunnymen, "Never Stop"
alarson@pulsar (Aaron Larson,,7308,) (10/17/87)
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.41.15 of Thu Oct 15 1987 on pulsar (berkeley-unix)
There have been several requests recently for a 'dired' style rnews
package. It just so happens that I have just recently completed writing
one, so recently in fact that it has not been debugged yet. The additional
capability consists of having a listing of all the newsgroups you are
attending showing the current, and last message in each news group.
Secondly you can get a summary of (some of) the messages in a news group.
The interface is very much like dired/buffed etc. After it has been
running a couple of weeks without problems, I will post it.
Aaron Larson MN65-2300 Software Technology
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