Summary of useful commands

To get edsc to display a help buffer listing available commands, press ``Ctrl-h m''. With the cursor in the help buffer, you can page up and down its contents with ``Meta-v'' and ``Ctrl-v''. With the cursor back in the DISCUSS buffer, pressing ``Ctrl-x 1'' will hide the help buffer and return the window to the original single DISCUSS\ buffer. If you lose the DISCUSS buffer among other ones, simply entering ``Meta-x discuss'' will return to where you left off. There are separate help buffers for the meetings listing and for inside a meeting, as different commands are available in each. Pressing ``Ctrl-h m'' will automatically provide the appropriate help.

Here is a short summary of the more common commands used at the meetings list:

n, spacebar
Go to the next meeting that has unread transactions.
p, delete
Go to the previous meeting that has unread transactions.
Ctrl-n
Go to the next line in the listing.
Ctrl-p
Go to the previous line in the listing.
l
List all meetings attended.
g
Go to the meeting by the cursor.
a
Add meeting; host and pathname will be requested.
d
Delete meeting; verification will be requested.
c
Catch up; mark all transactions in the meeting as read.
q
Quit DISCUSS mode.

Here is a short summary of the common commands used from within a meeting:

spacebar
Scroll to next screen of this transaction.
delete
Scroll to previous screen of this transaction.
n
Move to Next transaction in meeting.
p
Move to Previous transaction in meeting.
Meta-n
Move to Next transaction in chain.
Meta-p
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Move to Last transaction in meeting.
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Move to First transaction in meeting.
g
Goto transaction number specified.
t
Talk; enter a new transaction.
r
Reply to current transaction.
f
Forward this transaction via mail.
c
Catch up. Mark all transactions in this meeting as read.
l
Mark transaction as highest-seen and leave meeting.
d
Delete transaction, and move forward.
Ctrl-d
Delete transaction, and move backward.
R
Retrieve a deleted transaction.
a
Add meeting.
q
Quit meeting.

In addition, pressing ``Ctrl-h k key'' will give a description of the function of key.