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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