RGFN User's Guide


Newsreader Commands

Group Selection Commands (^ means the control key)
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4   Select group 4                      
$   Select last group
^D  Down a page                         
^U  Up a page
^F  Down a page                         
^B  Up a page
^L  Redraw page
^K  Delete group from .newsrc   
Z   Undelete a group from .newsrc
^R  Reset .newsrc
 Read current group
n or   Goto next group with unread news and enter it
b   Back a page                                 
 Forward a page
c   Mark group read                     
C   Mark group read and goto next unread group
d   Toggle display of groupname or groupname and description
g   Choose a new group by name
j   Down a line                         
k   Up a line
h   Command help                                
H   Toggle mini help menu
I   Toggle inverse videol               
L   List and select another spooldir
m   Move current group within group selection list
M   Menu of configurable options
N   Goto next group with unread news
q Q Quit
r   Toggle display to show all / only unread subscribed to groups
R   Report bug/comment via mail to iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de
s   Subscribe to current group  
u   Unsubscribe to current group
S   Subscribe to groups that match pattern
U   Unsubscribe to groups that match pattern
v   Show version information
w   Post an article to current group
W   List articles posted by user
y   Yank in subscribed/unsubscribed from .newsrc
Y   Yank in active file to see any new news
z   Mark current group as unread
/?  Group forward (?=backward) search

Article Pager Commands 
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The following are the commands you can use within the articles.

0     Read the base article in current thread
4     Read response 4 in current thread
^D    Down a page                     
^U    Up a page
^F    Down a page                     
^B    Up a page
^H    Show articles header
^K    Kill / Auto select (hot) current article
^L    Redraw page
^R    Redisplay first page of article
$       Redisplay last page of article
    Goto to next thread
   Goto next unread article
b       Back a page             
 Forward a page
a     Author forward search     
A     Author backward search
B     Article body search
c     Mark all articles as read and goto group selection menu
C     Mark all articles as read and goto next unread group
D     Delete current article that must have been posted by you
d     Toggle rot-13 decoding for current article
F     Post (f=copy text) a followup     
f     Copy text and post a followup
g     Goto first page of article              
G     Goto last page of article
h     Command help                    
H     Toggle mini help menu
I     Toggle inverse video
k     Mark article as read & advance to next unread
K     Mark thread as read & advance to next unread
m     Mail article/thread/hot/pattern/tagged articles to someone
M     Menu of configurable options
n     Goto to the next article          
N     Goto to the next unread article
o     Output article/thread/hot/pattern/tagged articles to printer
p     Goto the previous article               
P     Goto the previous unread article
q     Return to previous level
Q     Quit
R     Reply through mail to author      
r     Copy text and reply through mail to author
s     Save article/thread/hot/pattern/tagged articles to file
t     Tag current article for crosspost/mailing/piping/printing/saving
T     Return to group selection level
v     Show version information
w     Post an article to current group
W     List articles posted by user
x     Crosspost current article to another group
z     Mark article as unread            
Z     Mark thread as unread
/     Article forward search
-     Show last message
<     Goto first article in current thread      
>     Goto last article in current thread
*     Select article
.     Toggle article selection
@     Reverse article selections
~     Undo all selections in thread

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