On 2017-01-08 14:39, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Per Jessen <> [01-08-17 03:54]:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
and commandline, slrn
Few /common/ people would like that one :-P
I don't know why other than the default key combinations are *different*, It is configurable and has good function.
/I/ find it cumbersome, even compared to Pine, which I use daily. Pine also has a news client. This time the interface is familiar, but it has a big problem when compared to GUI clients: it does not remember what posts one has read. This is not a bug, it is intentional. Or a consequence. On mail, an imap account, the server keeps track of read email by the client. But on nttp the server does not. Thus Pine does not track them, can't track them because there is no local cache of the news posts. The devs told me to mark those mails as deleted, but doing that the news posts disappear from view and I can't read them again. I believe slrn does the same thing. And this thing invalidates these clients for normal usage, unless you happen to like that behavior.
Thanks for the suggestions - TB is probably the most likely alternative, but I'll have to try out 'Pan' too. For the time being, we'll remain on 13.1 and 13.2 - leap42x has other unsolved issues (scanning, printing, graphics) that means we can't move up.
I don't believe pan is available anymore.
It runs here, just tried. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)