trost@reed.UUCP (Bill Trost) (10/28/87)
I've played around with using mh to read news, and I've found the interface severly lacking when compared with something like rn. The only way to go about it is to read each article as it comes, no saving articles and no deleting by subject. My point is, has anyone gotten around these problems? Is there something significant I'm missing? I've started working on hacking the code for show to provide a way to provide a reasonable way for seeing the "next", "prev", "first", and "last" desired articles in a newsgroup, but I'd rather not go through the mess of dredging code out of mh if I don't need to. -- ...!(ogcvax|tektronix)!reed!trost @ All characters @ My opinions may or "Ooh ick!" -- Penfold, anonymous @ are ficticious @ may not represent assistant of *Dangermouse*, the @ unless they @ those of my employer, world's Greatest Secret Agent @ are real. @ etc, etc.
scott@tekcrl.TEK.COM (Scott Huddleston) (10/28/87)
In article <7567@reed.UUCP> tekcrl!tektronix!reed!trost trost@reed.UUCP (Bill Trost) writes: >I've played around with using mh to read news, and I've found the >interface severly lacking when compared with something like rn. ... >... Is there (some way to see) ... >... the "next", "prev", "first", and "last" desired articles in a >newsgroup ... Yes, by an awful hack (in versions 5.x). MH stores sequences for read-only folders (like newsgroups) in ".context" in your mail directory. It has a limit of about 12 such sequences, after which no more can be created or used. One "cur" sequence per newsgroup (from which next/prev are derived) uses up the limit pretty fast. If you delete ".context" entries frequently (by manual editing) and don't read many newsgroups, MH is almost a tolerable news reader. An even worse flaw (in v. 5.13) is MH fails to recognized large-numbered files as messages (somewhere between 3000 and 8000). I believe both problems have been fixed in later MH versions (write if you need pointers). MH's "pick" command will let you select messages by subject/keyword/etc. "rmm" is futile in a read-only folder, but you can copy messages with "refile". Or if space is tight, make a manipulatible newsgroup image by setting up soft links from a folder of yours to all messages in a newsgroup folder. If anyone has developed a good MH interface for news, I'd like to hear about it. ------------------------------- ...!tektronix!tekcrl!scott scott@crl.tek.com
mcg@omepd (Steven McGeady) (10/29/87)
---------- Mike Zuhl (omepd!radix!mikez) has a fairly nice screen-oriented MH mail reader called 'mhedit'. It uses a browser style of interface, along with 'vi' commands to move you around the screen. It displays a message list that, at the top level, looks like the output from 'folders', allows you to select a folder, then displays a message list which looks like the output from 'scan', allows you to select a message and read it. It lacks 'pick' capabilities from MH, and 'kill-file' capabilities from rn, but it might serve as a nice conceptual model on which to build a usable interface. I suggest that you bug Mike to release it to the net. He may or may not. S. McGeady