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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Newsreaders
Date: 11 Feb 2014 23:30:45 GMT
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On 2014-02-11, Matti Haveri <nospam@here.invalid> wrote:
> In article <blpsc9F8gpbU7@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Did you compile and install slang first? 
>> 
>> Here are the steps I used in 10.9.x:
>> 
>> curl ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/slang/v2.2/slang-2.2.4.tar.gz >
>> slang-2.2.4.tar.gz
>> tar xzf slang-2.2.4.tar.gz
>> cd slang-2.2.4
>> ./configure
>> make
>> sudo make install
>> 
>> curl http://www.jedsoft.org/slrn/download/slrn-1.0.1.tar.gz >
>> slrn-1.0.1.tar.gz
>> tar xzf slrn-1.0.1.tar.gz
>> cd slrn-1.0.1
>> ./configure
>> make
>> sudo make install
>
> Thanks, that did the trick!

Welcome!

> Got slrn running with my newsserver although I replied here with MT-NW 
> to avoid sending garbage with the default editor...

vim certainly isn't for everyone. The reason I use it is I am very
familiar with vi/vim already.

> tin and pico are more in my rusty muscle memory so I might also try them.

See other replies in this thread for instructions showing how to use
the TextWrangler GUI editor or other command-line clients for editing.

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JR