Re: XBoard 4.9.0 for correspondence chess

Rene Vergara <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Aug 2016 20:28:30 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.xboard.devel
Message-ID	<20160814012830.GA4968@drago>

Hi,

Thanks for the reply, I received another one that steered me in the
right direction. I'm not sure it's a bug, but you need to explicitly
select 'Edit Mode' in order to make a move, and the switch out of
'Edit Mode' to mail the move.

It works as I expected when switching the mode like this.

On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 03:52:25PM -0700, Tim Mann wrote:
> I'm not sure that anyone tests CMail anymore, and there had been some talk
> about removing it.
> 
> Now that we know there is at least one person trying it, hopefully someone
> will get inspired to debug it...
> 
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Rene Vergara <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been trying to use XBoard for e-mail correspondence chess and
> > found that when I pipe an e-mail into Cmail, XBoard opens and parses
> > the PGN correctly and displays the latest position, but won't allow
> > any moves. Am I using this correctly?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Rene
> >

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