Hi, Thank you all for good advices on my questions. Now I've tried both slrn and patch.vvv.nntp. I'm happy to report comments from my point of view, as a newbie of news groups.
1. vvv.nntp is easier to take up because you don't have to learn a lot before you can use it. (If you are not on the steep part of mutt's learning curve. ;-) 2. slrn's help of keys can not reflect the changes you made until you modify the help.txt, while mutt does a great job and vvv.nntp benefits from it. It's very helpful to newbies. (More important, you may *search* in help of mutt, but not in help of slrn.) 3. I can not agree very much to `at present it most closely resembles slrn'. At least the most important UI - keybindings. (I found I can not operate its driving wheel and buttons in ease in short term.) It's pretty emacs-style, while mutt's something hybrid - it's no pain for a Vim user to drive mutt. I wonder very much - how could you operate mutt+vim and emacs-style slrn in daily life without difficulty? Isn't it like switching driving between left-side and right-side? Or it's more like switching languages for you bilinguals? :-) I agree that slrn is pretty professional in news group and someday I may not live without it. But vvv.nntp patch is pretty good, too, and it can save my life at this moment. best regards, charlie On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:16:39PM -0600, Jeremy Blosser wrote: > On Jan 31, Michael Elkins [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Jeremy Blosser wrote: > > > SLRN. Much of Mutt's user interface was based on SLRN originally. > > > <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/> > > > > This is not exactly true. The interface for Mutt was most influenced by > > MUSH (Mail User's SHell) and ELM. I didn't start using SLRN until quite > > some time after I started Mutt (was using trn at the time). The note on > > the web page says that <at present it most closely resembles slrn>. > > That's why it's not a surprise that lots of Mutt users use SLRN to read > > news. > > Oops. Mea culpa. > > On Feb 01, Charles Jie [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Great! Thank you all. > > > > And I need some further suggestions: > > > > * Which is better for me to start? Using slrn or using the patch for mutt? > > > > * After a long time, which would be more probable for my working mode? > > mutt + slrn, or mutt + patches? (ie ultimate mode of using mail/news) > > It depends on how you operate, probably. > > Do you see news as just another kind of mail, and you want to operate on it > exactly like you operate on your mail? If so, using the patches will let > you have all your accustomed mutt mail functionality (hooks, commands, > etc.) available regardless of the medium. > > If you see news and mail as different things, and would prefer a client > that is very good at mail for your mail, and one that is very good at news > for your news, you probably will prefer mutt + slrn. > > (Some of the patches may well make mutt have both very good mail features > and very good news features, I don't know... I don't personally prefer to > operate that way, I'd rather use different tools for differing tasks.)
