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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Newsreaders
Date: 9 Feb 2014 02:06:48 GMT
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On 2014-02-09, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2014-02-08, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2014-02-08, Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 2014-02-08, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2014-02-08, Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 00:49:03 +0200, Matti Haveri <nospam@here.invalid>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> In article <l4jfnl$995$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>>  Michelle Steiner <email@michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So what is the consensus for a newsreader to replace MTNW on
>>>>>>> Mavericks?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> MT-NewsWatcher 3.5.3.b3 via Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 via VMware Fusion
>>>>>> 6.0.2 via OS X 10.9.1 :-|
>>>>>
>>>>> Not the solution for the average user.  ;-)  I have gone to using slrn
>>>>> with nano as an editor in Terminal.  Not as elegant as MTNW, I grant
>>>>> you, but it gets the job done.  Usenet has declined so much that I can't
>>>>> justify paying for an NNTP client.  The S/N ratio has become truly
>>>>> atrocious.  slrn's scoring weeds almost all of the spam out with a few
>>>>> elegant rules, though, so I appreciate that.
>>>>
>>>> Same here, but with vi, which I'm perfectly comfortable with.
>>>
>>> Me too but while I'm comfortable with VI, I prefer TextWrangler.
>>
>> You mean the TextWrangler "edit" command-line tool? Doesn't that force
>> you to switch between the Terminal application and TextWrangler whenever
>> you want to view or create a message? I'm not sure I would like that
>> context switch.
>
> Try it yourself and see.  At no stage do you need to click between TW and
> slrn windows to effect the switch in control.
>
> In  .slrnrc
>
>     set editor_command "edit --wait --resume +%d '%s'"
>
> the --wait and --resume combination means that when you do a post or
> followup you get a new TW window.
>
> cmd-S and cmd-W when you are done puts you straight back at the slrn confirm
> posting prompt.
>
> I also have
>
>     set abort_unmodified_edits 1
>
> so that on an editor exit without writing any changes slrn quits the posting.

Thanks, just what I was looking for.

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