Hello Nicholas!

30 Jan 21, Nicholas Boel wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

 MD>> %RESCAN                      <- Rescan the areas subscribed below in
 MD>>                               the same message to areafix

 NB> Is this command needed?

Yes. It enables the list mode. All following areas are rescanned without the need to type %rescan in front or /r at the end of the lines. This is pretty comfortable. Especially because a simple  means:

                       <- Subscribe to the area

a new subscribtion.

 NB> If empty, it now replies and logs with an error.
 NB> So that seems to take care of a blank response.

Correct. Rescan always needs a target.

 NB> Does '%RESCAN ' already cover the correct way to go about this?

Yes. That is the reason why %RESCAN  is the first line of the rescan commands in the %help message. The normal workflow should be to search a text from top until the first hit found the keyword.

 NB> If '%RESCAN ' can also be used this way:

 NB> %RESCAN
 NB> 
 NB> 
 NB> 

Yes it can. That is what the empty %rescan line set up.

 NB> or

 NB> %RESCAN    ...

I did not found that in the helpfile so i think that does not work.
The  is reserved for the N parameter to rescan N old messages.

 NB> Maybe just making the first option:

 NB> %RESCAN  ...

It is the first option in the helpfile and should be the first option that would be found.

 NB> .. and elminiating the blank command altogether would eliminate any
 NB> future confusion?

The confusion was because the empty %rescan line without following echos did not produced an error answer. Teach the users to who to do this RTFM thing and you would avoid more confusion in the future.

Regards

Kai

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