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... 5.2 Quick Selecting Subjects
While you are in menu mode you can quickly select each article that
contains some particular text in its subject. To do this:
Prompt Type
====== ====
<menu mode> =
Select regexp text RET
Selected N articles
The text that you specify can be plain text or an egrep(1) regular
expression. For example, the regular expression ^ matches the
beginning of a line, so to select all subjects in the current
newsgroup, type:
=^
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