🚀 go-pugleaf

tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Thomas Richard Stevenson) writes:

: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:

: >What I usually do is go to the specific group I want, and then hit
: >shift-U, it will ask if I want to resubscribe. You can probably do this
: >just as quick by editing the .newsrc like you do, but then you don't
: >have to leave nn.

: >James

: The only problem is that this assumes you know that name of the group
: you want to join. Want I'm asking for, although I don't think it is
: available, is a full screen display of all groups, something like the
: :show command, where you can pick which groups you want to join. With
: the G command you have to have an idea of what groups are out there to
: know which ones to go to. When I first joined nn, I unsubscribed to all
: groups (there was something like 1800 groups available). Then I went
: back (using an editor), scaned what was available, and turned on those
: groups. It would have been nice to be able to do that from within nn, so
: that I didn't have to know that a ! ment unsubscribed, and : ment
: subscribed. Even now, after going though the .newsrc file 20-30 times, I
: still find using the G command hard because I just can't remember what
: the names of all the groups are. Even if this was a program other than
: nn, that would be a nice option.

Whenever I want to see a list of all the groups I do the
following:

:post
?
/xenix

The last line will search all newsgroup names and description
lines for the regexp.  I find this very handy.
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