Re: Text-based News Readers

Russell J. Wood <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2006-01-06, Russell Wood <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What are some decent, text based (no need for binary) News Readers
> > available?
> >
> > I've scanned the ports and tried a few, but I would like to see some
> > user's opinions.
>
> I'm currently using slrn -- which is awkward since I'm not fully familiar
> with the key bindings.

You can change them easily. :-) I've changed mine to behave more like Tin.
In particular, I've mapped arrow-left and arrow-right to move into articles
and groups.

> After a bit of persuasion I evently got tin installed, but it wasn't too
> user-friendly with me, so it got `canned'.

cd /usr/ports/news/tin && make install clean ?

> I would like something that ties in with my mail client (Mutt), so I'll keep
> looking and playing until I find something that fits.

There is an NNTP patch for Mutt, but I would not recommend it. Mutt is a mail
user agent, not a newsreader. They are fundamentally different things.

> Currently, I'm using newsfish to download messages from my groups but
> haven't got a nice way to post. I'm looking into a small program that I can
> pipe my messages into from stdin directly from VIM.

Looks like you're looking for something like inews?

- Philip

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