Re: What function/key gets new messages while reader is inside the group?

On Sunday 02 September 2007 19:02, Oleg Verych wrote:

> * Sun, 2 Sep 2007 17:56:45 +0100
> * User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5
>
> Hallo, funny boys and gals with all non slrn UAs (:hint Gmane)

I prefer to read mailing lists with a mail client. You can laugh at me for not 
using Mutt, but I switched from Mutt to Kmail when Kmail acquired the 
functionality I previously found only in Mutt + procmail + fetchmail. I 
prefer non-GUI software only when it has functionality that GUI software 
lacks - and that's why I use slrn, not pan or Knode.

> >> Subject: What function/key gets new messages while reader is inside the
> >> group?
> >
> > None, unfortunately.
> >
> > You have to quit the group and enter it again.
> >
> > Updating a group while reading its messages is a known feature request:
> ><http://www.slrn.org/wishlist.html>
>
> I wonder why it's not there already, it's a must.

I think it would involve bigger changes to the source code than anybody has 
enough time or enthusiasm to implement.

> If i have multi-screen environment (i use only text console base
> environment), why not to have multi-group reading, especially when
> there's very interesting conversation going on in one, but i want to
> check status in other?

Why not? Because the different instances of the newsreader would have to spend 
vast amounts of time talking to each other in order to keep in sync. slrn, 
like all other good newsreaders I can think of, has a locking mechanism 
specifically to ensure that such a mess can't happen.

But you can use more than one instance of slrn with different news servers: 
for instance, I mostly use news.readfreenews.net, but I sometimes use 
news.motzarella.org for the same groups. I have aliases in .bashrc:

alias slrn-motz='NNTPSERVER=snews://news.motzarella.org /usr/local/bin/slrn'
alias slrn-rfn='NNTPSERVER=news.readfreenews.net /usr/local/bin/slrn'

And corresponding sections in my .slrnrc:

nnrpaccess news.readfreenews.net username1 password1
nnrpaccess snews://news.motzarella.org username2 password2
server "news.readfreenews.net" "newsrc/readfreenews"
server "snews://news.motzarella.org" "newsrc/motzarella"
#if$NNTPSERVER news.readfreenews.net
        set force_authentication 1
        set scorefile "score/readfreenews.score"
#endif
#if$NNTPSERVER snews://news.motzarella.org
        posting_host "pjr.motzarella.org"
        set force_authentication 1
        set scorefile "score/motzarella.score"
#endif

But I think that "q" followed by "SPACE" or "RETURN" would be less trouble 
than all that complexity if you merely want to check that no new posts have 
arrived that would obsolete your intended follow-up.

-- 
PJR :-)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc.
Still grepping through log files to find problems?  Stop.
Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser.
Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >>  http://get.splunk.com/