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Article #699Re: Another wish for Kim
From: Bill Petro - SunOS Marketing
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 23:05
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 23:05
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sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>One thing I always wished rn had was a better way to reorder newsgroups.
>What I'd like to see is:
>(while in a newsgroup)
>I type ":place". It then gives me a fullscreen of newsgroups in order of
>presentation. I move to the newsgroup where I wish to move this one, hit
>"p" or "P" (like vi "put before" or "put after") and voila it is now there
>in the presentation sequence.
>Obvious wins would be the ability to quickly deal with new groups, and
>reorder groups as they change in importance to the reader.
>What do you think? About a million hours of work to implement? :-)
Here is a trick that I have used. If I find a group that I would like
placed somewhere else in the sequence, I use this macro:
define 1
prompt "Append group name to group sequence?"
?no return
:!echo $G >> ~/.nn/init
prompt "Edit init file?"
?no return
:!vi ~/.nn/init
redraw
end
#bind to ctrl-t in both modes:
map both macro 1
Then, by just typing ^T, it will ask if I want to append this group, I
reply "y", and then it will ask me if I want to edit the init file. I
type "y" again, and move the newsgroup name accordingly.
What I haven't figured out is how to get it to take a "space" rather
than a "y".
Bill Petro {decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax}!sun!Eng!rock
"UNIX for the sake of the kingdom of heaven" Matthew 19:12
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!warp!rock From: rock%warp@Sun.COM (Bill Petro - SunOS Marketing) Newsgroups: news.software.nn Subject: Re: Another wish for Kim Message-ID: <132251@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 26 Feb 90 23:05:56 GMT References: <14312@s.ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Lines: 42