Re: trn-4.0-test77

[N.M. M. <nm...@ca...>]

On Nov 6 2015, Patrick Vervoorn wrote:
>
>There's little point argueing taste; I've tried some of the graphical 
>newsreaders but none allowed me to 'process' newsgroups as fast and 
>efficient as trn could. Of course, nowadays, newsgroups aren't that large 
>anymore, but still... I still prefer to navigate news using the keyboard, 
>without having to handle a mouse.

I agree, but am further in that direction from you!  With unthreaded rn,
I can scan through the new postings in a group, just noting the ones of
interest to me.  What with thread drift, doing that by thread doesn't work.
And 'new postings/unread postings' don't help, because I oten scan once,
and then go back and look properly when I have time.  Usually by 'P',
'?string' or editing .newsrc.

>> I have located those problems in the source, and trodden on them in the 
>> code. Most seem to be the result of adding trn features without 
>> bypassing them in rn mode. My hacks are not worth turning into fixes.
>
>Nice this has been solved and working for you. Luckily trn doesn't see 
>many new releases so you won't be very busy moving your patches to new 
>releases. :)

I have found the problem, but a proper fix isn't obvious.  Pnews is not
posting in follow-up mode for trn 4, but returning code 42 and trn does
it.  Unfortunately, there are some NNTPish incantantions between the call
to Pnews and that to inews, it is clearly one of them that is going wrong,
and I would have to spend some time to locate why.  So I just hacked
Pnews to deny that it is trn 4, and it calls inews itself.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.