Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: UNIX systems Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 22:31:40 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <67b21894$14$17$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <87r03mq9po.fsf_-_@example.com> <2f52e086-7adf-663a-2bd7-0e328bdba87c@example.net> <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; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2307709"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: <87zfh7xlb6.fsf@DEV.NULL> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:27099 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! =)