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slrn - An easy to use NNTP based newsreader.
This documentation is out of date. You are encouraged to look at slrn/changes.txt and slrn/doc/slrn.rc in the slrn distribution for more up to date information. See also http://space.mit.edu/%7Edavis/slrn.html for additional documentation.
slrn [ −n ] [ −h nntp-server-name ] [ −f newsrc-file ] [ −create ] [ −C ] [ −help ]
slrn is an easy to use but powerful NNTP based newsreader. It relies extensively on the S-Lang programmer’s library for many of its features.
If no server is specified on the command line using the −h option, the server specified by the NNTPSERVER environment variable will be used. The −f option specifies which newsrc file should be used. If none is specified, a default value of .jnewsrc will be used. This value can be set on a server by server basis using the .slrnrc initialization file.
The −create option should be used the first time slrn is used for a particular server. This causes slrn to read the entire list of groups available at the server and place them in the selected newsrc file. If the NNTP connection is slow, this process may take several minutes. Fortunately, this happens only when the −create flag is used.
If −C is specified on the command line, the terminal is assumed to support colors. Colors may be specified by using the initialization file. If the −n option is present, no new newsgroups will be checked for. This may result in a faster startup.
Using slrn is simple. For many, simply typing slrn will connect to a news server. After starting, slrn checks for the existence of new newsgroups and automatically subscribes to them. Then after new news is checked, slrn goes into ’’full screen’’ mode at which point the user can unsubscribe to one or more groups. slrn will display a list of newsgroups that looks like:
-> 3
sci.research.postdoc 689-705
1 comp.databases.olap 1-1
4 rec.antiques.radio+phono 1-4
1 comp.emulators.ms-windows.win 339-349
113 comp.unix.questions 74401-74513
11 gnu.ghostscript.bug 4874-4884
100 alt.music.pink-floyd 7941-8040
11 rec.sport.baseball.analysis 239-249
3 rec.sport.baseball.data 267-269
13 sci.physics.electromag 1159-1171
65 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems 4754-4818
5 sci.physics.particle 1069-1073
2 comp.sources.x 2362-2363
2 comp.unix.user-friendly 2603-2604
Here the middle column shows the name of a newsgroup and the left column shows the number of unread articles in the group. The right column shows the range of articles present on the server. Note the presence of the −> in the first column on the ’sci.research.postdoc’ line. This symbol is used by slrn as a pointer to indicate the currently selected line. It may be moved up and down by using the arrow keys. Pressing the RETURN key or the SPACEBAR at this point will select the ’sci.research.postdoc’ group. A new screen will appear showing something like:
->- 703 (P)
Lecturer in Comp. dumontet@nuri.inria.fr (dumo
- 704 Research & Developnment dumontet@nuri.inria.fr
(dumo
- 705 Re: Example of proposal
shinbrot@bart.chem-eng.nwu.e
Here, each line consists of four fields and possibly the −> cursor. The first field indicates whether the article has been read or not. A hyphen ( − ) in the first field indicates that the article has not been read. Since a hyphen appears in the first field in all three of the lines above, none of the articles have been marked as read. A d in this field indicates that an article has been read. The currently selected article can be changed from the read to the unread state by pressing the u key. The d key may be used to mark the article as read without actually reading it. The c key may be used to mark all the articles as read (Actually this is the preferred way to use the newsreader: scan the articles by eye looking for something interesting then before moving on to next newsgroup, press ’c’ to mark all articles as read).
The second field displays the server number of the article. The third and fourth fields contain the subject and author of the article, respectively.
Pressing the SPACEBAR or the RETURN key will create a second window and display the contents of the currently selected article. The screen will now consist of two windows - a large one and a small one. The large window, known as the article window, will contain the currently selected article and the small one, known as the summary window, will contain the list of articles as shown above. The space bar may be used the scroll the article forward and the DELETE key or the ’B’ key may be used to scroll it backward. The UP/DOWN arrow keys simply move the −> cursor from one line to another in the summary window. To hide the article window, press the h key.This will zoom the summary window to full screen.
The f key may be used to post a followup to the currently selected article. To return to the list of Newsgroups, press the Q key to leave this mode.
These keybindings are always available: These keybindings are always available:
? |
Help |
PageUp Ctrl-U
Page up
PageDn Ctrl-D
Page down
Ctrl-Z |
Suspend program |
These keybindings may be used at the newsgroup level:
SPACE |
Select articles for the current group. | ||
UP P |
Move to the previous group | ||
DOWN |
Move to the next group | ||
q |
Quit the program | ||
p |
Post an article | ||
l |
Toggle the display of groups with no unread articles on and off | ||
L |
Toggle display of unsubscribed groups (can also subscribe with this) | ||
u |
Unsubscribe from the current group | ||
s |
Subscribe to the current group | ||
c |
Mark all articles in the current group as read. | ||
a |
Subscribe to a specified group | ||
/ |
Search for a subscribed group | ||
G |
Refresh groups from news server | ||
X |
Save .newsrc | ||
ESC > |
Move to last group | ||
ESC < |
Move to first group |
The following bindings are valid once a newsgroup has been selected:
SPACE |
Select or scroll currently selected article forward |
DELETE, b
Scroll currently selected article backward
d |
Mark currently selected article as read and move to the next unread article. | ||
u |
Mark the currently selected article as unread | ||
# |
Numerically tag the article for multiple save (see o command) | ||
g |
Skip to next digest | ||
h |
Hide the article window by zooming the summary window to full screen | ||
Ctrl-^ |
Decrease the size of the header window by one line. | ||
^ |
Increase the size of the header window by one line. | ||
f |
Post follow-up to the currently selected article | ||
F |
Forward the currently selected article to someone | ||
r |
Reply directly to the author of the currently selected article | ||
o |
Save the currently selected article or thread to a file in a Unix mail format by appending it to the the specified file, then optionally decode the articles with uudecode or unshar. If numerically tagged articles (see # ) are present, then optionally save and then decode the tagged articles. The built-in uudecoder can decode files that contain multiple multi-part uuencoded articles. However, they must be tagged in the proper order. The key ESC # may be used to un-tag articles. | ||
q |
Quit and go back to the list of newsgroups | ||
T |
Toggle quote display | ||
K |
Toggle scoring | ||
TAB |
Skip over quotes in article | ||
t |
Toggle the current articles headers between hidden and un-hidden states. By default, uninteresting ones are hidden | ||
UP |
Move to the previous article | ||
DOWN |
Move to the next article |
ESC DOWN, RETURN
Scroll the article down one line
< |
Jump to the beginning of the article | ||
ESC UP |
Scroll the article up one line | ||
ESC > |
Move to last article | ||
ESC < |
Move to first article | ||
RIGHT |
Pan the article window to the right | ||
LEFT |
Pan the article window to the left | ||
n |
Move to the next unread article | ||
o |
Append article to a file; optionally, decode with uudecode or shar | ||
p |
Move to a previously unread article |
PageUp, PageDn
Page up and down through the header list.
/ |
Search forward in the article | ||
? |
Search backward through article. | ||
a |
Author search forward. | ||
A |
Author search backward. | ||
s |
Subject search forward. | ||
S |
Subject search backward | ||
H |
Hide the article (make its window disappear) | ||
N |
Skip to next news group | ||
j |
Move to an article | ||
P |
Post an article (also see f to post a follow-up article) |
SEMICOLON
Set a mark at the current article.
COMMA |
Return to a previously set mark setting the mark first. | ||
* |
Flag the article as ’important’ (prevents catchup in header window from marking the article deleted) | ||
| |
Pipe article to an external command |
ESC Ctrl-C
Cancel the current article.
c |
Mark all articles as read |
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ESC C |
Mark articles to here as read |
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ESC U |
Mark articles to here as UN-read |
Ctrl-R, Ctrl-L
Redraw the screen.
ESC R |
Toggle ROT 13 decryption on and off |
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ESC S |
Toggle header threading on and off |
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ESC T |
Toggle collapse of header threading |
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ESC A |
Switch between header display methods |
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ESC p |
Find parent header |
ESC Ctrl-P
Find child header
? |
Show help | ||
Ctrl-Z |
Suspend the newsreader. | ||
E |
Edit score parameters using this article as template |
slrn uses the following list of environment variables:
NNTPSERVER |
NNTP Server to connect to if none specified when slrn is started. | ||
EDITOR |
SLANG_EDITOR
Editor to use when composing messages. The ’%s’ and ’%d’ format descriptors may be used to specify the filename and line number respectively. For example, if ’jed’ is your editor, then you can use something like: setenv SLANG_EDITOR ´jed %s −g %d´ in your shell startup file. If you are using a bash shell, you could instead use the command: export SLANG_EDITOR=´jed %s −g %d´ in your shell startup file. SLANG_EDITOR is the prefered environment variable since all S-Lang applications that use an editor look for this variable and understand this syntax.
REPLYTO |
Address to be inserted into the ’Reply-To’ field. |
ORGANIZATION
String to be used in the ’Organization’ field.
If a file called .slrnrc is present in the users HOME directory, slrn will use it as an initialization file. This file can contain list of personalized keybindings as well as a list of server -- newsrc mappings.
BINDING KEYS
To bind a key to a particular function use the syntax:
setkey keymap function key-sequence
The setkey function requires three arguments.The first argument specifies the keymap to be used for the bindings. Valid keymaps are: group and article. The function argument spacifies the function that is executed when keys in the last argument are pressed. For example,
setkey group quit "x"
indicates that if x is pressed at the group level, the quit function will be executed. Note that although not normally necessary, the last argument should be enclosed in double quotes since it may contain SPACE characters.
The key-sequence argument can consist of several characters. For example, on many terminals, the RIGHT arrow sends the three characters ESC, ’[’ and ’C’ to the terminal. To bind the RIGHT key to ’select_group’ function, use:
setkey group select_group "\e[C"
Sometimes, it is necessary to unbind a key from a keymap before binding the key. For example, one cannot do:
setkey group quit "\e"
to bind the ESC key to the quit function without first unsetting it. This is because the default bindings use the ESC character as the prefix character for certain keymaps. To achieve this goal, use the unsetkey function:
unsetkey group
"\e"
setkey group quit "\e"
Here the unsetkey function has been used to remove the binding for the ESC character before binding it to the ’quit’ function. Please note that unsetting the ESC key will also unset any key sequence been with the ESC key. This includes most function keys.
See the example initialization file below for the list of functions and their meaning.
USING MULTIPLE SERVERS
The easiest way to use multiple servers is through the use of the server command in the .slrnrc file. This command simple associates a server name with a newsrc file:
server nntp-server newsrc-file
For example, suppose that you use three servers with hostnames ’red.news.edu’, ’blue.news.edu’, and ’green.news.edu’. The the lines:
server red.news.edu .jnewsrc-red
server blue.news.edu .jnewsrc-blue
server green.news.edu .jnewsrc-green
specify that the file .jnewsrc-red is to be used when the server red.news.edu is connected to, etc...
DEFINING COLORS
Color support is enabled when suing the ’-C’ command line switch. The colors may be defined through the use of the ’color’ keyword in the ’.slrnrc’ file. The syntax is:
color OBJECT-NAME FOREGROUND-COLOR BACKGROUND-COLOR
Here, OBJECT-NAME can be any one of the following items:
menu -- Line at
the top of the display (menu bar)
menu_press -- Menu bar entry when activated
status -- Status line attached to windows
cursor -- The --> position indicator
error -- Error messages
group -- Newsgroup names (group mode)
description -- Newsgroup descriptions (group mode)
article -- The body of the article (not headers)
headers -- The lines that constitute the headers of the
article
author -- Author’s name
subject -- Subject
signature -- Author’s signature
quotes -- Quoted material
high_score -- Articles with high scores
tree -- Article tree
tilde -- Tildes (tilde mode)
thread_number -- Thread numbers
normal -- anything not included above
The foreground/background color names can be any of the following:
black gray
red brightred
green brightgreen
brown yellow
blue brightblue
magenta brightmagenta
cyan brightcyan
lightgray white
Most terminals do not support the second group of colors for the background.
HIDING QUOTED ARTICLES
Often articles contain quotes of previous articles. slrn is capable of not displaying lines in an article that match a given regular expression. The regular expression may be specified by putting a line of the form
ignore_quotes REGULAR-EXPRESSION
in the .slrnrc startup file. The default regular expression is
"^ ?[:>=]"
which matches any line that begins with or without a space followed by either a colon, greater than sign, or an equal sign.
To toggle the display of such lines on or off, press the ’T’ key when in article mode.
(For a complete description of the flexibility in the slrn scorefile system, see the files KILL_FAQ and score.txt in the slrn distribution)
slrn incorporates a sophisticated system for scoring articles. In other newsreaders, one of slrn’s scoring features would be called a " killfile ". But unlike some other newsreaders, slrn provides for a great degree of flexibility and the capability to mark articles in ways other than merely killing them.
Four levels of scoring are provided:
-9999 |
The scored article is deleted (as with a common killfile) and will not appear in the header window |
-1 through -9998
The scored article appears with a " D " as in "Deleted" flag in the header window
0 normal article
1 through 9999
The scored article’s header appears with a " ! " flag to indicate importance
CONFIGURING THE SCOREFILE
The scorefile system is disabled until you set scorefile to the pathname of the file slrn should use to hold the scoring parameters.
Once set, scorefile may be accessed through the E command at the header window, or may be edited manually. When accessed with E , slrn appends a template based upon the currently selected article to the scorefile with various parameters taken from the article and you are placed in your editor. To enable scoring, delete the % comment symbol from the first column of the header line(s) you wish to score upon.
The other way to configure your scorefile is by editing the file directly, with a text editor. Here is a sample scorefile (remember the KILL_FAQ and score.txt files are the definitive references for the score system):
[news.software.readers]
Score: 9999
% All slrn articles are good
Subject: slrn
Score: 9999
% This is someone I want to hear from
From: davis@space.mit.edu
Score = -9999
Subject: <f?agent>
[comp.os.linux.*]
Score: -10
Expires: 1/1/1996
Subject: swap
Score: 20
Subject: SunOS
Score: 50
From: Linus
% Kill all
articles cross posted to an advocacy group
Score: -9999
Xref: advocacy
~From: Linus
% This person I
want nothing to do with unless he posts about
% ’gizmos’ but only in
comp.os.linux.development.*
Score: -9999
From: someone@who.knows.where
~Subject: gizmo
~Newsgroup: development
% These stooges
post massive .sigs all the time. I like
% to track them
[alt.fan.warlord]
Score:: 20
Subject: larry
Subject: curly
This file consists of two sections. The first section defines a set of tests applied to the news.software.readers newsgroups. The second section applies to the comp.os.linux newsgroups.
The first section consists of three tests. The first test applies a score of 9999 to any subject that contains the string ’slrn’. The second test applies to the ’From’. It says that any article from davis@space.mit.edu gets scores 9999. The third test gives a score of -9999 to any article whose subject contains the word ’agent’. Since tests are applied in order, if an article contains both ’slrn’ and ’agent’, it will be given a score of 9999 since 9999 is a special score value.
The second section is more complex. It applies to the newsgroups comp.os.linux newsgroups and consists of 5 tests. The first three are simple: -10 points are given if the subject contains ’swap’, 20 if it contains SunOS, and 50 if the article is from someone named ’Linus’. This means that if Bill@Somewhere writes an article whose subject is ’Swap, Swap, Swap’, the article is give -10 points. However, if the Linus writes an article with the same title, it is given -10 + 50 = 40 points. Note that the first test expires at the beginning of 1996.
The fourth test kills all articles that were cross posted to an advocay newsgroup UNLESS they were posted by Linus. Note that if a keyword begins with the ’~’ character, the effect of the regular expression is reversed.
The fourth test serves to filter out posts from someone@who.knows.where unless he posts about ’gizmos’ in one of the comp.os.development newsgroups. Again note the ’~’ character.
The last test marks as important messages from mentioning Moe or Curly in the alt.fan.warlord newsgroup. This demonstrates use of an "OR" condition in a scorefile.
If you elect to send a courtesy copy of your followup article to the original poster, you may easily do so by adding a "Cc:" header to the article. Here is an example of how to send a courtesy copy of a followup to John Davis’ (slrn’s author) announcement of a new slrn version:
Newsgroups:
news.software.readers
Subject: Re: slrn 0.8.0 Released!
References: <46c6b8$e2@news.mit.edu>
Organization: a clean well lit place
Reply-To: hg@n2wx.ampr.org
Followup-To:
Cc: davis@space.mit.edu
On 22 Oct 1995
01:26:45 GMT, John Davis <davis@space.mit.edu> wrote:
...
John will receive a copy of the followup by email with the article text preceded by a line of text stating that [This message has also been posted.] (The text within the brackets may be customized with the .slrnrc cc_followup_string parameter.)
MISCELLANEOUS SETTINGS
The .slrnrc initialization file also supports the following commands:
signature
<signature file name>
organization <Your organization name>
replyto <Email address to be used reply to>
quote_string <string to be used to quote an article>
editor_command <string used to invoke editor>
scorefile <score file name>
For example,
signature
.news-signature
organization "Society of Famous Outlaws"
signature "Billy the Kid"
quote_string ">"
editor_command "jed %s -g %d -tmp"
scorefile "News/Score"
$HOME/.slrnrc - the slrn’s initialization file
$HOME/.jnewsrc - default newsrc file for slrn.
% This is a
sample startup file for the slrn news reader. The percent
% character is used for comments.
% SERVER to
NEWSRC mapping
%server hsdndev.harvard.edu .jnewrc-hsdndev
%server news.uni-stuttgart.de .jnewsrc-stuttgart
% The next line
is for those servers that require a password.
%nnrpaccess HOSTNAME USERNAME PASSWORD
%hostname
"YOUR.HOSTNAME"
%set username "jdoe"
%set realname "John Doe"
%set replyto "jd@somthing.com"
% Name of
signature file to use
%set signature ".signature"
The quote
string will be used when following up/replying
quote_string ">"
% This regular
expression defines lines that are consider to be quoted
lines.
% It says that any lines beginning with 0-2 spaces followed
by a either
% a >, <, :, |, or = character is a quoted line.
ignore_quotes "^ ? ?[><:=|]"
% This sets the
follow-up string. Here, the following format specifiers are
% recognized: %d:date, %r:real name, %f:email address,
%s:subject,
% %m:msgid, %n:newsgroups, %%: percent
followup "On %d, %r <%f> wrote:"
%Custom headers
to add to post/followup
%set custom_headers "X-Whatever: bla0-Misc: bla
bla"
% WWW browser
to use. The ’U’ key in article mode searches the
current article
% for a URL and then calls X browser if slrn appears to be
run in X windows
% and non_Xbrowser otherwise.
set Xbrowser "netscape %s &"
set non_Xbrowser "lynx %s"
% If autobaud
is present, output rate will be synced to baud rate
%autobaud
% if non-zero,
display first article when entering article-mode.
set show_article 0
% if non-zero,
show description of newsgroup if available
set show_descriptions 1
% column where
group descriptions start
set group_dsc_start_column 40
% If non-zero,
backups of the newsrc file are not performed.
set no_backups 0
% If 0, do not
beep terminal. If 1, send audible beep. If 2, send only
% visible bell. If 3, send both.
set beep 1
% If non-zero,
slrn will automatically subscribe new groups. The default is
0.
set unsubscribe_new_groups 0
% If non-zero,
all subject titles will be displayed even though many are
% duplicated. A zero value makes the screen look less busy.
set show_thread_subject 0
% Enable xterm
mouse support: 1 to enable, 0 to disable
set mouse 0
% Setting
either of these to 0 will enable you to move directly to the
% next article/group without confirmation
set query_next_group 1
set query_next_article 1
% if zero, you
will not see the "next group:" prompt. This is NOT
the same
% as the ’query_next_group’ variable.
set prompt_next_group 1
% Set this to 0
for no-confirmation on follow, reply, quit, etc...
set confirm_actions 1
% If 0, do not
display the name of the author.
% If 1, display subject then name. If 2, display name then
subject.
set author_display 2
% If 0, save
all groups when writing newsrc file
% if 1, do not save any unsubscribed groups
% if 2, do not save any unread-unsubscribed groups
set write_newsrc_flags 1
% If greater
than 0, a Cc: header to poster will automatically be
generated on
% followups. If -1, prompt first.
set cc_followup 0
cc_followup_string "[This message has also been
posted.]"
% The sendmail
command allows you to substitute another mailer. Be sure
that
% it implements the same interface as sendmail!
%set sendmail_command "/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t -oem
-odb"
% Name of score
file (relative to HOME directory)
scorefile "News/Score"
% Name of
directory where decoded files are placed (relative to HOME)
set decode_directory "News"
% Directory where all other files are saved.
set save_directory "News"
% Command used
to invoke editor. In the following example, %s represents
% the file name and %d represents the starting line number
%editor_command "jed %s -g %d -tmp"
% If non-zero,
files used for posting, followup and reply will be regarded
as
% temporary files in the directory specified by the TMPDIR
environment
% variable or /tmp.
set use_tmpdir 0
% If 0, do not
sort. If 1, perform threading. If 2, sort by subject
% If 3, thread then sort result by subject
% If 4, sort by score. If 5, thread then sort by score.
set sorting_method 3
set display_score 0
% If non-zero,
threads will be uncollapsed when a group is entered
set uncollapse_threads 0
% If non-zero,
slrn will read the active file when starting. This may lead
to
% faster startup times IF your network connection is fast.
If it slow,
% DO NOT USE IT. If you can, I recommend setting it to 1.
set read_active 0
% If non-zero
and read_active is zero, slrn will attempt to use the NNTP
% XGTITLE command when listing unsubscribed groups.
set use_xgtitle 0
% What to wrap
when wrapping an article:
% 0 or 4 ==> wrap body
% 1 or 5 ==> wrap headers, body
% 2 or 6 ==> wrap quoted text, body
% 3 or 7 ==> wrap headers, quoted text, body
% The higher number indicates that every article will be
automatically
% wrapped.
set wrap_flags 4
% Maximum
number of articles to read before slrn will prompt. Default
is 100.
% Set this to zero to turn of prompting.
set query_read_group_cutoff 100
% Numes of
lines to read from the server between percentage counter
updates
% This number will vary with the speed of the connection to
your server
set lines_per_update 100
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Mime support
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------
set use_mime 1
set mime_charset "iso-8859-1"
% If non-zero, call metamail for mime formats that slrn does
not handle
set use_metamail 1
% If non-zero,
header numbers will be displayed in the left-margin of the
% header window. These numbers may be used as
’’thread selectors’’.
set use_header_numbers 1
% If non-zero,
prompt for reconnection if the NNTP connection drops. If
zero,
% attempt reconnection without asking user.
set query_reconnect 1
% Character to
use to hide spoiler text:
set spoiler_char ’*’
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Local spool configuration
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------
% set spool_inn_root "/export/opt/inn"
% set spool_root "/export/news"
% set spool_nov_root "/export/news"
%
%% -- The following filenames are relative to spool_root
%
% set spool_nov_file ".overview"
% set spool_active_file "data/active"
% set spool_activetimes_file "data/active.times"
% set spool_newsgroups_file "data/newsgroups"
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------
% GroupLens Support
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------
%set use_grouplens 1
%color grouplens_display blue white
"grouplens.cs.umn.edu" | |||||
9000 | |||||
"YOUR_PSEUDONAME" |
%grouplens_add
"rec.cooking.recipes"
%grouplens_add "comp.os.linux.misc"
%------------
% Colors
%------------
color header_number green white
color normal black white
color error red white
color status yellow blue
color normal black white
color error red white
color status yellow blue
color group blue white
color article blue white
color cursor brightgreen white
color author magenta white
color subject black white
color headers brightcyan white
color menu yellow blue
color menu_press yellow blue
color tree red white
color quotes red white
color thread_number blue white
color high_score red white
color signature red white
color description blue white
color tilde green white
%-----------------------------------------------------
% Monochrome attributes for monochrom terminals
%-----------------------------------------------------
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blink bold |
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reverse |
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bold |
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none |
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bold reverse |
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none |
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none |
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bold |
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reverse |
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bold |
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underline |
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bold |
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none | ||||||
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%------------------------ Group keymap------------------------------------
add_group |
"A" % add a new newsgroup |
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bob |
"\<" % beg of buffer |
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bob |
"^K\OA" |
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bob |
"^K\[A" |
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catch_up |
"C" % mark group as read |
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down |
"\OB" % next group |
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down |
"\[B" |
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down |
"^N" |
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eob |
"\>" % end of buffer |
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eob |
"^K\OB" |
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eob |
"^K\[B" |
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group_search_forward |
"/" | ||||||||
help |
"?" |
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pagedown |
"^D" % next page of groups |
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pagedown |
"\[6~" |
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pagedown |
"^V" |
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pageup |
"\V" % previous page of groups |
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pageup |
"^U" |
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pageup |
"\[5~" |
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post |
"P" |
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quit |
"Q" |
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redraw |
"^L" |
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redraw |
"^R" |
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refresh_groups |
"G" |
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save_newsrc |
"X"" % read articles from group |
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select_group |
" |
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select_group |
" " |
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subscribe |
"S" % subscribe to group (See unsubscribe)
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suspend |
"^Z" |
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toggle_group_display |
" 33A" | ||||||||
toggle_score |
"K" |
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toggle_hidden |
"l" |
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toggle_list_all |
"L" |
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unsubscribe |
"U" % unsubscribe |
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up |
"\OA" % previous line |
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up |
"\[A" |
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up |
"^P" |
%---------------- Article mode keymap -------------------------------------
goto_article |
"j" | ||||||
pipe_article |
"|" | ||||||
skip_quotes |
"" setkey article | ||||||
pageup |
"^U" | ||||||
pageup |
"\[5~" | ||||||
pageup |
"\V" setkey article | ||||||
pagedn |
"\[6~" | ||||||
pagedn |
"^D" | ||||||
pagedn |
"^V" |
setkey article
post "P"
setkey article toggle_show_author "\a"
setkey article get_parent_header "\p"
catchup_all |
"c" |
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catchup_all |
"\c" |
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uncatchup_all |
"\u" |
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catchup |
"\C" |
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uncatchup |
"\U" |
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scroll_dn |
" " |
% scroll to next page of article or select article |
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scroll_up |
"^?" |
% scroll to next page of article |
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scroll_up |
"b" |
% (scroll_up or article_pageup) |
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"\\[A" |
% Scroll article one line up |
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"\\OA" |
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"\\[B" |
% Scroll article one line down |
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"\\OB"" |
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article_linedn |
" |
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"/" |
% Search forward through article |
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"a" |
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% Search forward for an author |
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"A" |
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% Search backward for an author |
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"\^C" |
% Cancel the article |
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"d" |
% Mark current article as read and move to the next
unread one |
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"^N" |
% Move to the next article |
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"\[B" |
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"\OB" |
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";" |
% Set mark at current article |
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"," |
% Set the mark and return to the location of the
previous mark. |
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"f" |
% Followup on the article |
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"F" |
% Forward the article to someone |
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"?" |
% Show help screen |
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"H" |
% Hide the article window. |
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">" |
% goto end of article |
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"\OD" |
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"\[D" |
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"n" |
% next unread article |
"N" |
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% next group |
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"p" |
% previous unread article |
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"q" |
% Quit back to group mode. |
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"^L" |
% Redraw the display |
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"^R" |
||||||||||
"r" |
% Reply to the author of the current article |
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"<" |
% Goto beginning of article |
|||||||||
"\[C" |
||||||||||
"\OC" |
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"O" |
% append to a file in Unix mail format |
"s" |
||||||||
% Search forward/backward for an article with a specific
subject |
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"S" |
||||||||||
"^Z" |
% Suspend the newsreader |
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toggle_rot13 |
"\R" |
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toggle_sort |
"\S" |
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"t" |
% Toggle the display of some headers on and off |
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"T" |
||||||||||
"u" |
% Mark the current article as unread |
|||||||||
"^P" |
% Move to the previous article |
|||||||||
"\OA" |
||||||||||
"\[A" |
||||||||||
header_bob |
"\<" |
% Move to first article in list |
||||||||
header_eob |
"\>" |
% Move to last article in list |
||||||||
shrink_window |
"^^" |
% Ctrl-6 or Ctrl-^ |
% Shrink header window | |||||||
enlarge_window |
"^" |
% Shift-6 or just ^ |
% Enlarge header window |
%setkey article
skip_to_prev_group "" % No default binding
%setkey article fast_quit "" % No default
binding
% This is a
special hack for HP terminals to get the arrow keys working.
% Are there any other terminals being used with non-ANSI
arrow keys?
#if$TERM hpterm
setkey group up "\A" % "^(ku)"
setkey group down "\B" % "^(kd)"
setkey article down "\B"
setkey article up "\A"
setkey article left "\D"
setkey article right "\C"
#endif
environ(5)
Questions about slrn may be posted to the newsgroup news.software.readers where they will be answered by the author of the program. In addition, announcements of new versions of slrn are posted there.
The latest version of slrn is available via anoymous ftp from space.mit.edu in pub/davis/slrn.
John E. Davis <davis@space.mit.edu>
(This list is still incomplete)
Howard Goldstein <hg@n2wx.ampr.org> for updating this man page.
Andrew Greer <Andrew.Greer@vuw.ac.nz> for the VMS port.
Jay Maynard <jmaynard@admin5.hsc.uth.tmc.edu> for the OS/2 port.
Michael Elkins <elkins@aero.org> for the MIME code.
Lloyd Zusman <ljz@ingress.com> performed some cosmetic improvements.
J.B. Nicholson-Owens <jbn@mystery-train.cu-online.com> for extensive testing.
Mark Olesen <olesen@weber.me.queensu.ca> for suggestions and help with AIX version.
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