Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Salvador Mirzo Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: UNIX systems Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 20:40:53 -0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: <87o6xjo16i.fsf@gmail.com> References: <67b21894$14$17$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <87a5a7hhbd.fsf@example.com> <1e0008ef-b322-6a14-5842-d1f10eac4b58@example.net> <87h644gz5i.fsf@example.com> <9f05f9e2-c7cd-4d03-0e32-44dc9537e2f0@example.net> <87v7sj8284.fsf@example.com> <842580d0-aceb-b942-2043-4908be386f97@example.net> <87wmcx4drc.fsf_-_@example.com> <41920ba9-0dfe-1d5f-a6ed-804e20b6e548@example.net> <87ikoh2in3.fsf@example.com> <541183c5-4bd0-6552-ed24-8b6bce3a4ea8@example.net> <87r030tyt9.fsf@example.com> <87wmcojuw3.fsf@example.com> <5085869c-628a-949d-7bea-f058a2a0b450@example.net> <874izmi3ri.fsf@antartida.xyz> <878qovcdar.fsf@antartida.xyz> <14904dc1-369e-eae0-4197-a243253bdf79@example.net> <87zfh7xlb6.fsf@DEV.NULL> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:41:01 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="01c6f356780f364d6690064b1ac683dd"; logging-data="2724703"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18EnoyP1NwV8YJOFxSzaaEdKu2vkKsPCro=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:AqG31unWgsSL8dgPnQvhfY9unHA= sha1:4VncE6PuDyGH4T6EGDPmzT2sIPQ= Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:27108 D writes: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote: > >>> Alpine. Check it out here: alpineapp.email. Eduardo, the current >>> maintainer is active from time to time on the usenet group for alpine, >>> and gives great help! >>> >>> It's written in C, compiles very easily (at least for me), and is >>> quite "hackable". =) >> >> It's a TUI, right? I kinda like to compose a message, stop on it, keep >> it open, visible, get back to the the inbox, search some stuff, open >> other messages, perhaps compose new (quick) messages, send them out, >> look at my previous message being composed and continue with writing >> it... >> >> So a TUI usually means I must draft the on-going message, get it out of >> the way so I can continue the use the application. For that reason >> alone, I think I need a GUI one. > > Ahh... yes. The closest you can get in alpine is "postpone" > messages. So I write, then I postpone it, which means it gets saved in > a special folder. I can then continue to do other stuff, and once I > hit "C" for compose, alpine asks if I want to compose a new message or > finish a saved on, and I have then a list of saved messages. It is a > TUI in the terminal, so not possible to have several open messages in > parallel I'm afraid. Nevertheless, this idea of showing a menu of saved drafts to continue the composition is quite a nice workaround.