Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: slrn as a replacement for MT-NewsWatcher Date: 26 Oct 2013 23:07:40 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 81 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net e7kYG8RhnykOlBmRWe4/9Q1QhEHzAbGE8RhNfxYzvGcJxcWPz2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:B+VQ7xcvBojvOmRYo3Hg7b8D2L0= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:18802 On 2013-10-23, Sandman wrote: > Right, so Thunderbird is a crap application and Unison is pretty but > rudimentary. So back to slrn and the good old days! So, for you out > there that use this client, let me ask you some questions so I can get > back on track. More questions will probably come. > > I've started the score file, and I wanted to group scores, is this > correct: > > [*] > Score: 200 > {:: > References: @irc\.sandman\.net>$ > References: $ > } > > I.e. that's a scoring for people replying to my posts, and looking at > the docs, the double colon means that only one of the items need to > match. I was unable to make it work it seems, or maybe I'm doing > something wrong there. Assuming the References lines are correct, it seems like you are doing the right thing. I'm going to read the docs and do some tests and report back here when I get a minute. > What (command line) editor do you use? Do you use one that is > "post-aware". My editor of choice, pico, doesn't know what a usenet > post is and can't colorize the text in any meaningful way. But others > may. I'm using vim with the "syntax on" option. Quoted content is colored; though I'm not sure whether it's using slrn or some other color settings. I am fairly familiar with vim's basic editing commands, and don't mind using it for posting. GUI editors aren't suitable for me, because I access slrn remotly through a terminal; otherwise, I'd probably try TextWrangler. Like you, I'm curious what better editors others out there might be using. > How do you navigate the references of a post? Say I'm in a discussion > and need to go back in time before the loaded article set, using > references was a grrat way to do it in MT-NewsWatcher. Can it be done > legantly in slrn? Indeed. From the FAQ: "How can I retrieve read articles from the same thread? If you want to read the ``parent'' of the article you are currently reading (e.g. because the author did not quote enough material to understand his message), ``ESC p'' will attempt to find it, using the ``References'' header line. It is also possible to find all ``children'' of a given article using ``ESC Ctrl-P'' (note that this does not work with all servers) and, using a recursive combination of both, to reconstruct the entire thread tree. This is done by pressing either ``ESC 1 ESC p'' or ``ESC 2 ESC p'' - the second alternative can be much faster, but the first is more likely to find all articles even if some articles contain incomplete ``References''." I'll probably end up memorizing both ESC p and ESC 1 ESC p! slrn seems to be quite capable to me so far. It should be a suitable replacement to MT-NewsWatcher, with even more functionality geared to my needs. I am not displeased. : ) > That's it for now, I'll add more questions as they pop up :) Same here. So far, so good. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR