Re: UNIX systems

On Wed, 26 Mar 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

Alpine. Check it out here: alpineapp.email. Eduardo, the current
maintainer is active from time to time on the usenet group for alpine,
and gives great help!
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It's written in C, compiles very easily (at least for me), and is
quite "hackable". =)

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It's a TUI, right?  I kinda like to compose a message, stop on it, keep
it open, visible, get back to the the inbox, search some stuff, open
other messages, perhaps compose new (quick) messages, send them out,
look at my previous message being composed and continue with writing
it...
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So a TUI usually means I must draft the on-going message, get it out of
the way so I can continue the use the application.  For that reason
alone, I think I need a GUI one.

Ahh... yes. The closest you can get in alpine is "postpone" messages. So I
write, then I postpone it, which means it gets saved in a special folder. I can
then continue to do other stuff, and once I hit "C" for compose, alpine asks if
I want to compose a new message or finish a saved on, and I have then a list of
saved messages. It is a TUI in the terminal, so not possible to have several
open messages in parallel I'm afraid.
I guess another way is to have several open terminals, but then it does feel as
if a real GUI is better for you. I can open several alpine programs at the same
time, but for me, the regular workflow works.

I used to love slrn for the USENET, for example.  I had not discovered
Gnus back then yet, so I would draft one article, look at another, draft
the new one, edit the previous... I did a lot of that at times.  It's
definitely okay, but with Gnus around...
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But I'm glad to know that Alpine has been going great.

Oh, yes, it has a few decades under the belt! =)