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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Newsreaders
Date: 11 Feb 2014 16:23:22 GMT
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On 2014-02-11, Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:
> On 10 Feb 2014 04:34:12 GMT, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2014-02-10, Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 19:26:09 +0200, Matti Haveri 
>>> <nospam@here.invalid> wrote:
>>>> In article <slrnlfavc9.j9v.timmcn@sugaree.local>,
>>>>  Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have gone to using slrn with nano as an editor in Terminal
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the tip about slrn. Other posts indicate I could use 
>>>> TextWrangler as its editor.
>>>
>>> I had no luck trying to get slrn to deal with any applications 
>>> outside of Terminal, but that may just be due to not knowing how to 
>>> properly write the configs.  The learning curve for setting up the 
>>> app is slightly steep and the documentation leaves a bit to be 
>>> desired.
>>
>> It's rather simple. As shown here, you just use the editor_command 
>> setting in your ~/.slrnrc file:
>>
>><http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/slrn-manual-6.html#ss6.20>
>>
>> Like so:
>>
>> set editor_command "editorcommandhere"
>>
>> For instance, here's mine, which set automatic hard line wrapping at 72
>> characters and enables the vim colorized spell checker:
>>
>> set editor_command "vim --cmd 'set textwidth=72' --cmd 'set spell' --cmd
>> 'hi clear SpellBad' --cmd 'hi SpellBad cterm=underline ctermfg=red' +%d
>> '%s'"
>>
>> Substitute your preferred command-line editor.
>
> Yeah, my editor_command entry is simpler, just calling nano, but I meant 
> that I could not get slrn to use TextWrangler as the editor or Chromium 
> as the browser.  Perhaps that is because I installed using MacPorts and 
> it can't find its way out of the /opt filesystem to applications in 
> /Applications?

1. It needs to be a command-line editor. 
2. If the editor in question is not on your $PATH, you'll need to
specify the full path in the editor_command setting.

The stand-alone (read: not App Store) version of TextWrangler comes with
a command-line editor that gets installed at /usr/local/bin/edit. If you
call 'edit' from the command line, it opens TextWrangler's GUI editor.

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