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Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"!

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D <nospam@example.net> writes:

> Hello alpiners,
>
> I just had an epiphany about the tab-button, that I wanted to
> share. Strange thing is... I've used alpine for at least a year, and
> I've seen the message at the bottom of the screen, but why did it
> never click?
>
> Anyway...
>
> I've experimentet with alpine as a news reader, and even though it is
> a bit slow compared with tin, and even though I cannot get a counter
> of new messages after the newsgroup name, and even though the "N"
> indicator is a bit clunky, I discovered that pressing tab not only
> navigates to the next group, but it also skips a group if no new
> messages are there.
>
> Brilliant!
>
> That makes up for some of the slowness, since I can just read, delete
> one message to make the messages above being marked as read, then skip
> the empty groups and land in the next group with new messages.
>
> This has radically speeded up my newsbrowsing since I no longer need
> to enter a group, read, exit the group, select the next one.
>
> So shame on my for not discovering it earlier, but now at least I did,
> and I hope some other aspiring and beginning alpine fan might be saved
> the trouble. ;)
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel

Hi Daniel,

It never occured to me to use alpine for newsgroups. I use emacs for
that, and have for about ten years.

Laziness prevented me from setting up email on emacs too. And only
recently got alpine to work the way i like it.

I'm just lazy.

Is the newsgroup part of alpine integrated with email? Like, is it
interchangable and all that?

Daniel

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Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-01-20 14:01 +0100
  Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2024-06-19 07:07 +0000
    Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-06-19 09:49 +0200
      Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2024-06-19 11:53 +0200
        Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-06-19 15:04 +0200
          Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-06-19 16:17 +0200
    Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2024-06-19 15:29 +0000

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