> And then you can use the wondrous nn to burst the digest (using G%) and
> then each digest item is presented on a menu and you can easily select the
> ones you're interested in.
>
> I'm curious what other newsreaders are able to burst digests. I know
> that [t]rn allows you to jump to the next line beginning with
> "Subject:" using ^G, but do any newsreaders, other than nn, allow you
> to present the digest items on a menu and read, save, print, etc.
> the individual items?
[This is skating the edges of what's particularly relevant to FAQ
maintainers, IMO.]
Chris Lewis's FAQ (Archive-name: faqs/minimal-digest-format) has a
section on what various news readers are and are not able to do with a
digested messages. He has some comments about what aspects of the
digest format do and do not make sense for FAQ postings; it would
probably be more productive for people to read his posting and feed
back comments to him rather than discuss it here on this mailing list.
Specifically with respect to the functionality you query about, the
emacs gnus news reader both has "jump-to-next-topic" functionality
(C-c C-n) and a undigestify option (C-d), which takes the Usenet
posting and undigestifies it into an emacs RMAIL file where
individual messages can be saved, forwarded, printed, etc., with
normal emacs RMAIL commands.
-- Yours in Leadership, Friendship, and Service, Ping Huang (INTERNET: pshuang@mit.edu), probably speaking for himself
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