Question about rn KILL file

Andy Behrens andyb at dartvax.UUCP
Sat Mar 14 05:00:09 AEST 1987


In article <2260 at tektools.TEK.COM> jerryp at tektools.TEK.COM (Jerry Peek) writes:
> Well, when I read the "comp.text" newsgroup, I want to kill the
> articles about "TeX", but not other articles with words like "text" in
> their titles.  I tried the following KILL file,
> 	/:.*TeX.*/:jc
> with a "c" to make the search case-sensitive.  The "rn" man page
> doesn't mention "c" as a valid command, and it doesn't seem to work.

The "c" is a search modifier rather than a rn command.  If I understand
the manual, it should come immediately after the search pattern, before
the colon:

	/pattern/c:j

Other modifiers are "h" (search entire header) and "a" (search entire
article).  These would also precede the colon.

					Andy Behrens

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