jordan@titn.TITN (Jordan Bortz) (09/03/87)
Has anyone written a news reader for X? Has anyone started? For instance, having the subjects listed down the screen, and then being able to mouse through the list and select the one you want is better than having to sequentially N key through all the articles sequentially. This is the case even with vnews. You could have reverse video for unread messages, and a special icon next to it if the article has been saved someplace. Jordan -- ============================================================================= Jordan Bortz Higher Level Software 1085 Warfield Ave Piedmont, CA 94611 (415) 268-8948 UUCP: (decvax|ucbvax|ihnp4)!decwrl!sun!plx!titn!jordan =============================================================================
barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) (09/05/87)
In article <204@titn.TITN> jordan@titn.TITN (Jordan Bortz) writes: >For instance, having the subjects listed down the screen, and then >being able to mouse through the list and select the one you want >is better than having to sequentially N key through all the articles >sequentially. This is the case even with vnews. > >You could have reverse video for unread messages, and a special icon next >to it if the article has been saved someplace. Someone wrote something like this for Symbolics Lisp Machines, not X. I tried it a couple of times, and found it quite cumbersome compared to rn (not to mention it was buggy, as it seemed to be incompletely converted to the new Symbolics release). It listed all the newsgroups and the number of unread articles. When you clicked on a newsgroup it would list the author and subject of all the unread articles, and you could then click on the articles you wanted to read. There were some keyboard commands to go sequentially through the articles; however, if you wanted to read all the articles on a particular subject (a la rn's ^N) you had to manually click. In conclusion, I wouldn't use a window-based news reader unless it were as easy to use as rn. --- Barry Margolin Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com seismo!think!barmar
ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) (09/11/87)
Here at CMU we have two spiffy news/mail readers (same interfaces)
that I know about.
The Bags messages systems is an gosmacs-based system (written in mocklisp
mostly) with appropriate emacs mouse support it could be made to do most of
what you want.
The Andrew message system is the technological successor to bags in
that it is window-and mouse-based, but I believe you need the Andrew
environment (Vice file server, Virtue applications support) tiled
window manager (they may support X protocol) to go with it.
If Andrew messages has something like Kill files (I don't have an
Andrew account), then I'd put it in the same class as 'rn', except
that it's better because it works for mail, too.)
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