- I love the 'slrn' news reader.
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Wed 17 October 2007
By aclark
In Blog .
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Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.tags: Plone `|image0|`_ I've been meaning to write this blog entry about slrn
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Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.ever since I started using it some time last year. Finally, here it is. But this is not the blog entry I had originally intended to write. There were some grandiose ideas about where I first heard of it; the blog entry that inspired me to try it; how I was frustrated with the alternatives; none of these are present here in any detail. That is because I'm frustrated with the length of time it takes to write a "quality" blog entry, when all I want to do is get the information out. (But that is a separate blog entry :-))
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Unexpected indentation.To that end, here are a few things I'd like you to know about slrn :
It rocks, for those that enjoy terminal applications as I do (e.g.
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Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.mutt, w3m, etc.) And by "rocks" I mean, it allows you to do in a terminal what most people do in a graphical application. Further, it allows you to do it the way you want (for the most part) and by that I mean, it allows you to bind keys to actions.
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Unexpected indentation.It's a bit confusing to get started, that is what I'd like to help
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Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.with here. There is a default config file that you'll want to copy to ~/.slrnrc , and
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Unexpected indentation.there are some additional configuration parameters I use that were
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Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.hard to track down. Those are:
set confirm_actions 14visible_headers "From:,Subject:,Newsgroups:,Followup-To:,Reply-To:,Date:"set query_read_group_cutoff 0set uncollapse_threads 1set netiquette_warnings 0
Most of these are self-explanatory, but if you are looking at "set
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Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.confirm_actions 14" and thinking "wtf?" you are not alone :-) I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to explore. See: http://slrn.sourceforge.net/manual/slrn-manual.html for more information. I hope this post helps someone get started using slrn !
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Unexpected indentation.Next, in Part II, I will cover **slrnpull* ; the program I use
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Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.(distributed with slrn) to download news. I never "read it live" and I will explain why ;-)*
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