Re: UNIX systems

From	D <nospam@example.net>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: UNIX systems
Date	2025-03-29 22:31 +0100
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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.

I guess another way is to have several open terminals, but then it does feel as
if a real GUI is better for you. I can open several alpine programs at the same
time, but for me, the regular workflow works.

> I used to love slrn for the USENET, for example.  I had not discovered
> Gnus back then yet, so I would draft one article, look at another, draft
> the new one, edit the previous... I did a lot of that at times.  It's
> definitely okay, but with Gnus around...
>
> But I'm glad to know that Alpine has been going great.

Oh, yes, it has a few decades under the belt! =)

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  Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-02-24 11:12 +0100
    Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-02-24 14:08 -0300
      Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-02-24 23:32 +0100
        Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-02-24 22:22 -0300
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            fdm, paredit and systemd (Was: Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy) Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-02-25 13:18 -0300
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                Re: UNIX systems Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-03-13 18:17 -0300
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                Re: UNIX systems Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-03-16 22:41 -0300
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                Re: UNIX systems Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-03-21 16:26 -0300
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                Re: UNIX systems D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-03-21 23:37 +0100
                Re: UNIX systems Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-03-24 00:34 -0300
                Re: UNIX systems D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-03-25 21:49 +0100
                Re: UNIX systems Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-03-26 23:24 -0300
                Re: UNIX systems D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-03-29 22:31 +0100
                Re: UNIX systems Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-03-29 20:40 -0300
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                Re: UNIX systems D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-03-25 23:04 +0100
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                Re: UNIX systems yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2025-03-11 15:49 +0042
                Re: UNIX systems cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-03-11 15:25 +0000
                Re: UNIX systems onion@anon.invalid (Mr Ön!on) - 2025-03-11 16:24 +0000
                Re: UNIX systems cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-03-11 17:30 +0000
                Re: UNIX systems candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-03-12 22:30 +0000
                Re: UNIX systems yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2025-03-12 23:23 +0042
                Re: UNIX systems candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-03-13 20:40 +0000
                Re: UNIX systems Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-03-13 18:04 -0300
                Re: UNIX systems cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-03-13 21:26 +0000
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                Re: UNIX systems cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-03-13 01:24 +0000
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                Re: UNIX systems D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-03-12 22:19 +0100
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