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Attributes

Each article has an article attribute associated with it. This attribute indicates the status of the article (have you seen it? have you read it? etc.). The attribute is shown either by highlighting the article line, or placing a single character following the article id.

In most cases, the initial display of articles has the unread attribute associated with each article. This is indicated by a blank space after the article id. In our example you can see that all of the articles are marked as unread.

When you select an article it will be highlighted (if your terminal cannot do highlighting then it will be marked with `*'). This is the selected attribute. Articles will remain selected if you mark them selected and then leave the newsgroup without reading them.

An article is marked read after you have read it. These articles will be marked permanently read when you leave the newsgroup and will not be displayed the next time you enter the newsgroup. The read attribute is indicated by `.'

One final attribute is the seen attribute. This indicates that an article has been presented but not read. These will be marked read when you leave the newsgroup.

There are several other article attributes, but they are beyond the scope of this document.

This brief introduction to attributes was necessary to understand some of the following selection mode commands:

Z
Enter reading mode immediately (normally reading mode is entered after all articles have been selected). When all selected articles have been read, return to the current group. Selected articles will be marked read. Unread articles are not changed.

X
Similar to Z, except that all unmarked articles are marked seen. When all selected articles have been read, advance to the next newsgroup. This is useful to skip all of the articles in a large newsgroup without having to go through all of the selection mode menu pages.

SPC
Continue to the next menu page. If you are on the last menu page then SPC will put you in reading mode. If no articles were selected then advance to the next newsgroup. All unread articles will be marked seen.

RET
Similar to SPC, except that unread articles will remain marked unread.

>
Goto next menu page.

<
Goto previous menu page.

$
Goto last menu page.

^
Goto first menu page.

=pattern
Select all articles having pattern in their subject.

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