[comp.editors] Changing -ESUBJLINE

ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) (12/11/89)

  Found some useful code to change the behavior of the rn SUBJLINE
  environment variable.  It is supposed to give one a nicely formated
  compound-printout of article subjects, along with their numbers,
  length and authors.  Something like this (edited printout):

****  15 in news.lists--read? [ynq]
****   1 in alt.folklore.computers--read? [ynq]
****  19 in comp.mail.uucp--read? [ynq] =
 3152   Re: New newsgroup hierarchy                      (19)  Kenji Rikitake
 3153   UUPC problem                                     (25)  stevesc@microsoft
 3154   remote printer with UUPC?                        (14)  Jim Miller
 3155   Re: UUPC problem                                 (19)  Ken Leonard
 3156   Setuid smail2.5?                                 (32)  Goran Larsson [Ha
 3157   Re: UUPC problem ... and a new (NOT official)    (38)  ahd@clutx.clarkso
 3158   Re: UUPC problem ... and a new (NOT official)    (16)  ahd@clutx.clarkso
 3159   Problems with BITNET/UUCP gateway                (19)  Joerg Spilker
 3160   Re: Problems with BITNET/UUCP gateway            (21)  Marc R. Sheldon
 3161   Re: HoneyDanBer uucp question                    (40)  Bill Blue
 3162   Re: Setuid smail2.5?                             (15)  Chip Salzenberg
 3163   I need information about mail aknoledgements.    (10)  Mauricio Fernande
 3164   Re: uugetty problem                              (44)  Paul Gillingwater
 3165   Re: UUCP Sites in Africa                        (344)  Craig Peter Fynn
 3166   Re: uugetty problem                              (15)  Clarence Dold
 3167   Vicious rewriting of From: lines                 (51)  pwcs.StPaul.GOV!s


  However, it seem to have been developed for displays capable of more
  than 80-character lines because it actually displays 82 + <cr> + <lf>
  as can be learned from the actual printout:

****  15 in news.lists--read? [ynq] 
****   1 in alt.folklore.computers--read? [ynq] 
****  19 in comp.mail.uucp--read? [ynq] 
 3152   Re: New newsgroup hierarchy                      (19)  Kenji Rikitake     
 3153   UUPC problem                                     (25)  stevesc@microsoft.U
 3154   remote printer with UUPC?                        (14)  Jim Miller         
 3155   Re: UUPC problem                                 (19)  Ken Leonard        
 3156   Setuid smail2.5?                                 (32)  Goran Larsson [Hack
 3157   Re: UUPC problem ... and a new (NOT official)    (38)  ahd@clutx.clarkson.
[7mWhat next? [npq][m 

****   1 in comp.sys.mac.digest--read? [ynq] 
draken>exit
exit

script done on Mon Dec 11 08:11:17 1989

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  Question: how do I trim it down to 80-character effective width?
  Here's the actual code from my `.rninit' file pointed to by the
  RNINIT variable in my environment (first line, dealing with other
  rn-stuff, included for completeness):

-t -h -i=8 +hfrom +Hnewsgroups +hsummary +hlines -T -N
-ESUBJLINE="\
 %(%[subject]                                             \
 =^\\(..............................................\\)?\
 %1:%[subject]) \
 %(%(%[lines]=^$?%z:  (%[lines]\\))= *\\(.....\\)$\\|\\(.*\\)?%0) \
 %(%(%f=(\\(.*[^ ].*\\))$?%1:%f)                   \
 =^\\(...................\\)?%1)"

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  Thanks in advance!

--Ian Feldman /  ianf@nada.kth.se || uunet!nada.kth.se!ianf
             / "Go ahead, make my day, tell me to RTFM"