David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com> wrote: >Sometimes I'm in a really large newsgroup, >eg alt.home.repair, and remember from a few >days earlier a thread about walking-machines, >treadmills, jogging-machines; some name *like* >those were in the subject-line (er, thread-title). > >Now, this group, its threads, with only one >like showing per thread (via "L"-cmd), on my >60 some-odd lines high screen, takes FIFTY >TRN SCREEN PAGES to get from top to bottom. > >Now, what I'd *like* (eg, *need*) to do, in >order to see if this thread is still there, >unexpired, is to GREP the entire list. > >(For eg this word, that word, some other word, >plus some wild-assed guesses) > >(No, I don't want to use trn's "/"-search, because >I've *already* marked a (whole) bunch of items; >nor do I want some extremely abstruse set of >existing commands so that I *can* use "/".) Two commands, don't know how abstruse that is: :M mark currently selected items to return / make some new selections [ ... more selections, deselections, etc. ] [ optionally read current set of selections ] Y Yank back initial set of selections >What would be *best* for me would be to simply >get the entire list, all 50 pages worth, of whatever >items are currently on screen, same format -- >written out to a *file*. Hmmh - perhaps you could tell trn you have an infinitely tall screen, then tell your screen client to log output to a file, tell trn to display the thread-titles, capturing them to a logfile, turn off logging, reset the screen height, and grep the logfile. -- Denis McKeon ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp
