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Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"!

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On Wed, 19 Jun 2024, Daniel wrote:

> 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
>

Hello Daniel,

Yes, it works pretty much like email. Same shorts cuts and way to 
navigate. Only drawback with the default news functionality is that it is 
online only, so you have to be connected. You can get around that, but it 
is a little bit complicated.

I have heard rumours from the more experienced usenet crowd that it lacks 
x and y, but since I'm an email guy at heart, it never bothered me that 
much.

Try it out, maybe you'll like it! =) And if you want to explore the 
offline news mode, write me back and I'll guide you through it.

Best regards,
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
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