On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Adam H. Kerman wrote: > Patrick Vervoorn <patrick.vervoorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Interesting to see in what ways different people read the newsgroups. In >> my case, I first do a scan of the overview-pages, selecting what I (think >> I) want to read. At the end, I press 'X' to junk all other stuff, and >> start reading. Scrolling by 'space' when things are interesting, when a >> sub-thread gets boring, I press ',', when the whole thread has progressed >> beyond recovery, I press 'k'. Trn does the rest. > > That's similar to how I read, although if there's too much to read, I choose > what to read on a single page then press D. > > btw, k junks only the current subject, not the entire thread if the subject > has changed; J marks the entire thread as read including multiple subjects. I thought J when reading an articles does more than just marking them read. I do use 'J' a lot in the article overview view, tagging a whole subject thenk 'J'unking it. > I have forgotten a command. Somehow, I've got a specific group set to > enter as Subjects rather than Threads. I know how to change it back to > Threads once I'm in the group but I cannot remember how to change it so > I enter the group as Threads, not Subjects. Also, what file is this > setting stored in? I couldn't find it in the files in my .trn directory > and it's not a .newsrc setting, of course. Perhaps in the environment variables? > Whoops! Patrick, I apologize for carelessly replying to your message in > Mail rather than via the list. What a noob. No problem, I must admit I've done the same myself to a few messages on this list. My apologies to those I directly emailed with the list being on the Cc:. Regards, Patrick.
