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2 months ago Team's Response
I am confused by what you mean. If you are referring to a function to show the main list of articles, then we have the headlines feature which does that, as specified in the UG:
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- [x] I disagree
Reason for disagreement: I understand the issue perhaps wasn't described very clearly, so I'll try again here.:
There are no commands to view the current list, filtered or otherwise, as a whole. For example, a user starts the program, the program scrapes the articles, and now, without any filtering or suggesting, the user simply wish to view the entire list of articles, for the purpose of checking article indexes or just skimming through to find some headlines.
Without this feature, the user will likely be confused about which index refers to which article when using commands such as "url" or "extract" or "headline". Which is what I did during testing, I have to try every index to get a knowledge on the position and order of the main list, which is a little frustrating.
I see now that "headlines TOTAL_NUMBER_OF_ARTICLES" can achieve a similar effect, but users don't have the knowledge of how many articles there are in the main list, and this seemingly only works for the main list. So I think this is still an issue, but maybe the severity can be lowered to "low".
There are no commands as far as I can find, that can show the current list of articles. This means it's impossible to view the main article list at all, and inconvnient to view or re-view the suggested list or filtered list without scrolling up or typing the command again.
This also makes index-based commands on the main list very difficult, since users cannot see what article each index refers to.