Snownews is a console RSS/RDF news reader. It supports all versions of RSS natively and can be expanded via plugins to support many other other formats. The main program screen, that is shown right after you start snownews, lets you add/remove feeds and update them manually. On the right side of the screen the number of new items is shown for every newsfeed. To add a feed press ‘a’ and enter the URL. This can be either a http:// or a feed:// URL. If you omit the protocol specifier snownews asumes the HTTP protocol. To delete a listed feed highlight it with the cursor keys and press ‘D’. A dialog will ask for confirmation.

You can navigate through the main menu with up and down arrow keys or with ‘n’ and ‘p’. The keys page up/page down, b/space and HOME/END, </> will scroll a page up or down and to the first or last entry respectively. Pressing ‘r’ reloads the highlighted feed from the server, ‘R’ updates all feeds in your list and ‘T’ refreshes the feed ignoring any cache control data. That means, even if the feed has not been modified on the server, Snownews will still download the file.

The program will not sort this list alphabetically by default. You can move items up and down by pressing ‘P’ and ‘N’. To sort the feed list alphabetically, press ’s’.

If you highlight a feed and hit Enter the program will display every item for this feed. Navigation in all sub menus works as usual. If you press ‘r’ the program will reload the current feed. Items may vanish from the list completely and new newsitems will appear bold or in colour.

Select an item and hit Enter to read its description. If there is none attached to it the text “No description available.” will be displayed instead. You can use the arrow keys left and right, repectively ‘p’ and ‘n’ to select the previous or next newsitem in the list. Pressing ‘o’ will open the link (usually the complete news text) in the browser.

The default browser is lynx, but you can change this by pressing ‘B’ in the main menu and entering a new default browser. Or you can edit the file ~/.snownews/browser. The program replaces %s with the URL when expanding the string.

You can rename a feed by pressing the key ‘c’ and entering its new name. To reset its name to the original title enter ‘-’ in this textfield.

[ http://linux.die.net/man/1/snownews ]

Adding feed with “a”