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2 total messages Started by Will Estes Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:56

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Author: Will Estes
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:56

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I just started using tin, and while I'm very impressed by it, I do
have a few suggestions and questions:

1) When re-drawing the screen, it would be nice if tin could catch
the interrupt of further keystrokes and stop the current display and
jump to that next command.  For example, if I hit ctrl-d to go to
the next page, and I hit /mystring while that re-draw takes place,
it would be nice to stop re-drawing and just immediately take and
execute the command.  It's not an issue for 9600 bps, probably, but
anyone coming in at 2400 bps feels pain during those re-draws.

2) When i c)atch up inside of a newsgroup, I frequently ended up
at the newsgroup level, but the screen would not re-draw.  I had to
explicitly hit ctrl-l to re-draw.  I gather this might be a bug.
This is on a SunOS 4.1 system.

3) I was not able to deduce how I might be able to pass through
multiple pages of posts, mark just those that interest me, and then
read all of them at once.  How do you do this?  Thanks!

-- 
Will Estes		Internet: westes@netcom.com

Re: tin Questions/Suggestions

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Author: Tom Middleton ; System Manager
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:48

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[ Just want to say thanks to Tom for letting me use his account ]

westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) wrote:
:
: I just started using tin, and while I'm very impressed by it, I do
: have a few suggestions and questions:

Glad to hear it!

: 2) When i c)atch up inside of a newsgroup, I frequently ended up
: at the newsgroup level, but the screen would not re-draw.  I had to
: explicitly hit ctrl-l to re-draw.  I gather this might be a bug.
: This is on a SunOS 4.1 system.
 
This has been fixed in the upcoming release. I integrated the patch
that was posted to the net by Per Headland.

: 3) I was not able to deduce how I might be able to pass through
: multiple pages of posts, mark just those that interest me, and then
: read all of them at once.  How do you do this?  Thanks!

If using the most recent release (v1.1 PL8) you can:

1. Use the auto-selection feature (^K) to mark articles that interest
   you. Read the section in the manual page for more details.

2. Use the '.' command to mark articles & threads as selected and than
   reduce the number of articles to the selected articles by the 'X'

   command.



Iain

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