From: ahk@chinet.com
Louis Epstein wrote:
>Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>>>Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>>Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>>>>>Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>>>>>. . .
>>>>>>>(Some "standards" infuriate me,such as being prevented from
>>>>>>>quoting and commenting on someone's signature).
>>>>>>Who said you can't comment on whatever you care to?
>>>>>What I'm alluding to is the system whereby someone
>>>>>precedes a signature with a line starting "-- "
>>>>>and the newsreader thereby refuses to copy that or
>>>>>anything after it when one is attempting to quote
>>>>>the entire previous message and pare it down to what
>>>>>one is responding to (which should treat the signature
>>>>>as just as much fair game as previous text,IMO).
>>>>trn is from the same era as tin. I have to delete the quoted .sigfile
>>>>in followup manually.
>>>>Copy-n-paste into your followup; manually add quote characters.
>>>I don't use a mousey interface for my newsgroup reading.
>>>I edit with pico.
>>Shudder
>>Long lines just run off the end of the screen!
>Easily managed,a space/backspace chops the long lines,
>repeat as needed.
>>I use vim. I had been a long-time vi user.
>I hate vi.
>People say ed is worse but I haven't tried it.
>Nor vim.
ed was very basic.
>For FreeBSD,/usr/ports/editors includes
I know. The choices are amazing, aren't they. It's hard to convince
people who don't understand that a newsreader or email client that calls
on outside processes for certain functions, like the editor to use in
the composer, are superior. They offer the user a choice. I'd hate to be
stuck with a built-in editor in a GUI client which won't have the
features I'm used to.
>. . .
>but tin as reader and pico as editor are what I'm most comfortable with.
>I know trn has some abilities tin doesn't.
trn threads. tin doesn't.
>>>. . .
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