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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: Free / opensource text-only reader for linux - suggestions,
 please?
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 07:35:11 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 15:00:10 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote in
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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.

Pan ain't bad either -- and it's in active development.

Another version bump just came down the pipe.  They've been working
on generating the Makefiles with cmake (but Autoconf still works).

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-v