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| From | Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.unix.geeks, comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-11 |
| Subject | Re: Top posting |
| Date | 2026-04-05 10:00 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10qt8b8$19chn$5@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <10qrd58.1dig.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> <10qr6oi$5nan$1@news.xmission.com> <slrn10t2d6n.33d.Adison@localhost.localdomain> <10qru66$v684$2@dont-email.me> <qds8amxtmd.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
On 2026-04-05, Carlos E.R. wrote: > On 2026-04-04 23:00, Lars Poulsen wrote: >> On 2026-04-04 08:57, Adison Vohn Caterson wrote: >>> On 2026-04-04, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote: > > >> My testimony was not addressing the ease of top-posting versus bottom- >> posting, but the ease of looking up an earlier post in the thread if >> that level of "previous" had been snipped. >> >> /slrn/ (because it runs on a TTY socket) does not allow you to click >> through via a "References: " header, nor indeed via *any* embedded >> URL. > > Terminal clients like Alpine allow "clicking" on an URL (actually, > pressing [enter] on it), and then call a terminal web browser to > display it. > > >> >> The second of these can be remedied via the features of the terminal >> program on the user end (highlight, copy and then paste into a >> browser address line) but the "References:" has no easy solution. >> >> I was using /slrn/ for a long time, because I wanted to be able to >> read News from desktop PCs at several different locations (using SSH >> to get into my Linux desktop). I have now resigned myself to only >> read when I am at my desktop at home. >> GNU Emacs (which might not be desirable, as I see people were discussing other text editor(s)) does have the advantage it could run both under X11 and a terminal or terminal emulator, meaning you could get X11 features locally or over X11 forwarding and at the same time be able to use it in a tty-like device; also server-mode makes it easier to open separate Emacs instances all on the same "Emacs session". -- Nuno Silva
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