Comment on Spring 2010 Meta Thread

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:40:12 GMT

The main reading screen in trn had a two dimensional graph of the thread at the top of the screen (one node per reply) which you could navigate with the arrow keys - easily going to the parent post, the first reply post, or the next or previous reply to the same parent post. There were keys to move up & down a page or a line of the current post. Space moved you to the next page of a post, or if you were at the end, on to the next unread post/reply, in thread order. Multipage posts were marked as read only once you'd got to the bottom. There was another key to mark them unread, or to skip the current item without having to read all the way to the bottom. The top level post in a thread was technically similar to the replies, unlike the blogging distinction between articles and comments.

There was a previous screen where you could select which threads to view, they could be listed one per line (lots of other options too).

You could enter commands to select or skip posts matching a subject or author, and if desired, everything underneath them in the tree. You could save these commands to run every time.

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