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Subject: Re: Posting with slrn AND nano
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On 2021-05-21, Ted Heise <theise@panix.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 May 2021 04:24:33 -0000 (UTC),
>   ffuentes <ffuentes@sdf-f.spam.org> wrote:
>>  Here I have a silly question. Do any of you use nano to post to 
>>  newsgroups?
>
>>  I know slrn has a good example of how to setup vim to post but 
>>  how can someone post from nano? I wanna make nano wrap at 72 
>>  characters (which can be done with -r) but I also wanna make 
>>  the cursor to stay in between the response and the header.
>> 
>>  nano -r 72 -S +10
>> 
>>  Is this right? Do any of you have a better idea?
>
> I use pico, which I think is related to nano.  Here's what I have 
> in my .slrnrc, perhaps it will help?
>
> set editor_command "pico -z -t -r66 -Q \"> \" %s"
>
> The "-r66" part is the line length before wrapping.  Many of the 
> newsgroups I frequent have extended back and forth discussions, so 
> after a few exchanges 72 starts to look pretty bad.
>
> I also love pico's rewrap feature (Ctrl-j) that even rewraps 
> quoted text properly (used it above).

I use that feature (Ctrl-b) all the time in jstar as well (it appears to 
work the same). I might look at setting up a jstar configuration just for 
slrn — you make a good point about using 66 columns instead of a higher 
number.

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