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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: Free / opensource text-only reader for linux - suggestions,
 please?
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 15:00:10 -0000 (UTC)
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Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote at 13:55 this Wednesday (GMT):
> On 4/1/2024 5:16 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>> Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote at 13:45 this Sunday (GMT):
>>> dgold <d@gold.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 2024-03-28, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-03-28, candycanearter07
>>>>> <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>>>>>> RodionGork <rodion_gork@mail.ru> wrote at 06:33 this Thursday (GMT):
>>>>>>> Hi Friends and sorry for such a trivial and perhaps frequently-asked
>>>>>>> question. I haven't imagined it may be that difficult - seemingly
>>>>>>> there are or were many flavors of readers but among them many
>>>>>>> non-free or for windows or not supported anymore.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But what about client?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I like slrn
>>>>>
>>>>> I do too. I can pick Jstar (WordStar variant of JOE) as my editor.
>>>>> That sold me.
>>>>
>>>> It's so strange to me -- anytime anyone asks what Usenet is, slrn is
>>>> always, uniformly, what comes to mind.
>>>>
>>>> I'm editing this in Vim; Ron edited his answer in Jstar; CC07 could have
>>>> used nano or emacs or whatever -- the point remains: slrn just makes it
>>>> all possible.
>>>
>>>    Same for tin. Just define your favourite editor - in my case (since
>>> over four decades) vim - in your tinrc file. Forcing a user to use a
>>> particular editor is rather silly.
>>>
>>>> Slrn, always, forever. It is usenet. Hasta la slrn siempre.
>>>
>>>    Nah, it's tin, The Ideal Newsreader! :-)
>> 
>> 
>> Eh, tin is interesting but I prefer the visual thread display that slrn
>> has.
>
> maybe I finally should try out slrn


It's pretty good.
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