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Read your news with Emacs -- sources offered

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Guido van Rossum

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Dec 22, 1983, 9:23:15 AM12/22/83
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I have written a package which reads news with the use of (Gosling's)
Emacs.

It uses two C programs to scan the news index and update ".newsrc". It
implements analogons of readnews' -, n, e, N, U, s, f, r, H, q, x and ?
commands, and some of its own -- and of course a uniform way to skip to
the next page or article.

Of course, the fun is that the first lines of an article are
immediately shown; that there is no difference between 'readnews' mode
and 'more' mode; and that it interfaces with Emacs, so you can e.g. run
a compilation in a background window and read your news while you
wait.

If there are any requests (by mail!), I will post to net.sources.

Guido van Rossum, {philabs,decvax}!mcvax!guido
Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, (CWI, formerly MC), Amsterdam

Joe Kelsey

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Dec 28, 1983, 2:42:29 PM12/28/83
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Gosling Emacs comes with the "rnews.ml" package. Readnews already has
the -e flag to scan through your subscription list and produce an
output file of article headers to be used by "rnews.ml". If you are
indeed using some other version of Emacs than Gosling/UNIPRESS, please
state so in your posting so we can all know whether or not you are
offering anything new.

/Joe

Guido van Rossum

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Dec 30, 1983, 2:38:01 PM12/30/83
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In response to numerous requests, I have posted the sources for my
package to net.sources; also in order that joe@fluke can check whether
anything new is offered. (I can only say that it is based on Gosling's
Emacs #85, which appears to be pre-UNIPRESS.)

israel@umcp-cs

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Dec 30, 1983, 3:05:38 PM12/30/83
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As joe@fluke says, there is the 'rnews.ml' package for Gosling's Emacs
(though I've never seen "rnews" come on any distribution). I seem
to be the one distributing and maintaining the 'rnews' package (I
didn't write it, but I've done a bunch of hacking and modifications to
it). If anyone wants it, send me mail. If there are too many requests,
I will post to net.emacs or net.sources instead (but can still mail
out copies for non-usenet people).

BTW, Guido, I would be interested in seeing your version. If you have
any nice features not currently in "rnews", I'll look at them and try to
integrate them into "rnews".

--

^-^ Bruce ^-^

University of Maryland, Computer Science
{rlgvax,seismo}!umcp-cs!israel (Usenet) israel.umcp-cs@CSNet-Relay (Arpanet)

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