[1726] in SIPB bug reports
NON-GRIPE about XRN 6.14
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Mar 5 00:51:01 1991
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 91 00:50:35 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: sst@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, xrn@ic.berkeley.edu
In-Reply-To: sst@ATHENA.MIT.EDU's message of Mon, 4 Mar 91 15:07:22 -0500 <9103042007.AA01390@w20-575-7.MIT.EDU>
(I'm cc'ing this answer to the mailing list for xrn bugs, so the
author can see your suggestions.)
From: sst@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 91 15:07:22 -0500
Wow, this thing is fast. It's finally as useful as rn in that respect.
Several feature requests (i.e. if these exist I couldn't find them):
1) Ability to search by author field, whole header, and whole article,
rather than just within the subject line.
I don't think there are commands to do this from the X interface, but
it might be possible to do it in KILL files.
2) A "sticky" subject-next, so that it is the new default action when
you hit the space bar afterward.
I don't think you can switch back and forth between subject-search
mode and numerical mode while running xrn, but you can start it up
with space bar defaulting to subject-search. Set the "subjectRead"
resource to true, or use the "+subjectRead" command-line option.
3) The "table of contents" buffer reordered by subject, when you're in
subject-next mode as per (2) above.
Once again, I don't think you can toggle this while running, but you
can start up xrn doing this. Set the "sortedSubjects" resource to
true, or use "+sortedSubjects".
There's no need for a whole extra window to pop up when I hit a newsgroup
whose unread articles all turn out to be unavailable. This happens fairly
often with clari groups, and is a nuisance.
Try specifying the "-info" command-line option, or set the "info"
resource to false.
You should read the man page (type "add sipb; man xrn") for more
information about the features I've mentioned above, and before
requesting features in the future; they may already be there.
--> Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Quality Assurance and User Consulting
Treasurer, Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
jik@Athena.MIT.EDU
