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- NN-TK MAIN WINDOW
-
- The main window is divided into the article menu and article display,
- with the group list window optionally attached to left side.
-
- For a lot of nn functions that require a dialog a popup will
- appear at the top of the main menu and provide text based
- interaction, it also provides progress reporting for various
- activities such a decoding uuencoded articles.
- Some functions such as posting have their own specialized popups.
-
- The are small square handles on the borders between the panels and
- these can be dragged with the left mouse button to change the relative
- size of the panels. These changes can be save with the "Save window
- geometry" menu option, the exception is the border between the article
- display and group menu panels, those changes will only be saved if the
- middle mouse button is used to do the dragging.
-
- ARTICLE SELECTION
- Articles can be selected either by normal nn methods (the
- characters a-z 0-9) or by the left mouse button. Dragging
- with the button depressed selects a range of articles.
-
- The right mouse button selects an article and goes into
- immediate read mode
-
- TOP ROW
- The top row of buttons (apart from quit) are popup menus.
- Groups -cascading menus of all news groups.
- setup -nn-tk configuration menu
- Save Window Geometry - save the size/position of any currently
- displayed windows
- Key bindings - Set the key bindings for the EXMH simple
- editor and Entry widget
- Exmh options - set the EXMH options associated with MIME
- NN-TK ... - nn-tk config options
- NN variables - alter nn variables, these changes are stored
- in ~/.nn/tk-init-nn and override the settings
- in ~/.nn/init. The nn variables are split into
- a number of groups. The (all) is to access all
- the nn variables and the (modified) for just
- those that are different from the default
- USER command menu -define labels and commands for user-c menu
- Color Group List -mark groups in the group list the names of
- which contain specified substrings with
- colors
- article -functions related to single articles, including posting
- and mailing, processing and saving articles, displaying
- full headers etc.
- menu -functions related to article selection menu, including
- sorting of articles, consolidating articles with the same
- subject, selecting articles etc
- functs -nn functions for previous messages, kill/select, cancel,
- unsubscribing and for displaying group and folder windows
- USER -user definable menu
- info -access the nn help system, nn-tk and nn info, various nn
- internal info, exmh compose character info and the nn
- man page
- C -Button for canceling NNTP fetches
-
-
- MIDDLE ROW
- The middle row of buttons are related to the articles menu panel
- PrevG -return to previous group read
- < -previous page of article menu
- = -return to article selection menu mode
- > -next page of article menu
- read/skip -read items if any have been selected otherwise
- skip group
- nextG -leave group while not marking the articles as read
- PAGE -same as the NN space key, pages through articles,
- pages through article menu, if at end do a read/skip
-
- NOTE
- This version of NN is still somewhat modal, if there is a dark highlighted
- article in the the article menu NN is in reading mode, otherwise it is in
- article selection mode. The = button goes from article mode to menu mode.
- It is generally not necessary
-
- BOTTOM ROW
- The bottom row of buttons deal with the article display.
- / -search forward in the article
- -entry widget for search string
- \ -search backwards in article
- Mono -toggle mono-space font for article
- n-subj -skip articles in with current subject
- previous -previous article
- next -skip current article
- PAGE -as above
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