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Getting Started with News and the NN News Reader
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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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