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## 4 Usage

The command `newsticker-show-news` will display all available headlines. It will also start the asynchronous download of headlines.

You can choose between two different frontends for reading headlines:

- Newsticker's treeview uses separate windows for the feeds (in tree form), a list of headlines for the current feed, and the content of the current headline. Feeds can be placed into groups which itself can be placed in groups and so on.
- Newsticker's plainview displays all headlines in a single buffer, called ‘`*newsticker*`’. The modeline in the ‘`*newsticker*`’ buffer informs whenever new headlines have arrived.

In both views clicking mouse-button 2 or pressing RET on a headline will call `browse-url` to load the corresponding news story in your favourite web browser.

The scrolling, or flashing of headlines in the echo area, can be started with the command `newsticker-start-ticker`. It can be stopped with `newsticker-stop-ticker`.

If you just want to start the periodic download of headlines use the command `newsticker-start`. Calling `newsticker-stop` will stop the periodic download, but will call `newsticker-stop-ticker` as well.