Re: Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-02-28 Thread Will Yardley
Charles Jie wrote: 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? :-) switch the key bindings

Re: Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-02-28 Thread Andre Berger
* Will Yardley [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2002-02-28 10:37 -0500: Charles Jie wrote: 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

Re: Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-02-28 Thread Will Yardley
Andre Berger wrote: Are there key bindings for slrn around that make it use the same keys as mutt? i asked this very question on the mutt newsgroup, and didn't get any responses however i think it would be great if someone came up with this and posted their slrnrc for us anyone anyone?? --

Re: Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-02-28 Thread darren chamberlain
Quoting Will Yardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Feb 28, 2002 10:48]: Andre Berger wrote: Are there key bindings for slrn around that make it use the same keys as mutt? i asked this very question on the mutt newsgroup, and didn't get any responses. however i think it would be great if someone

Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-01-31 Thread Charles Jie
I have been a netscape user. Now I'm satisfied with mutt and will not go back to netscape except one thing - reading news groups. Could any Mutter suggest a good news reader of mutt style? (Highly customizable) thanks, charlie

Re: Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-01-31 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:30:33AM +0800, Charles Jie wrote: I have been a netscape user. Now I'm satisfied with mutt and will not go back to netscape except one thing - reading news groups. Could any Mutter suggest a good news reader of mutt style? (Highly customizable) slrn -- Ralf

Re: Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-01-31 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Charles Jie blurted I have been a netscape user. Now I'm satisfied with mutt and will not go back to netscape except one thing - reading news groups. Apparently it does. I believe their is a patch for it, probably on the links

Re: Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-01-31 Thread Jeremy Blosser
On Feb 01, Charles Jie [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I have been a netscape user. Now I'm satisfied with mutt and will not go back to netscape except one thing - reading news groups. Could any Mutter suggest a good news reader of mutt style? (Highly customizable) SLRN. Much of Mutt's user

Re: Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-01-31 Thread Michael Elkins
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

Re: Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-01-31 Thread Charles Jie
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) best regards,

Re: Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-01-31 Thread Lorin Winchester
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 02:34:38AM +0800, Charles Jie wrote: * 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) To both of

Re: Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-01-31 Thread John P Verel
On 02/01/02, 01:30:33AM +0800, Charles Jie wrote: I have been a netscape user. Now I'm satisfied with mutt and will not go back to netscape except one thing - reading news groups. Could any Mutter suggest a good news reader of mutt style? (Highly customizable) Slrn, as others have said. My

Re: Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-01-31 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then John P Verel blurted Slrn, as others have said. My model is Mutt/Slrn/Vim. Fabulous all around. The threading can not be beat, IMHO :) Well, I'm sold. Is slrn as tricky as mutt in the beggining? - -- Nick Wilson Tel:+45