Re: UNIX systems

D <nospam@example.net> writes:

On Wed, 26 Mar 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
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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.

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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.

Nevertheless, this idea of showing a menu of saved drafts to continue
the composition is quite a nice workaround.