• extending slrn

    From Julian Bradfield@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 25 16:24:53 2022
    There are a couple of things I'd like slrn to do for me:

    (1) Mark articles to return on newsgroup exit (the rn 'M' command),
    and/or mark articles to stay visible until the mark is cleared.

    (2) Followup to multiple tagged articles in one post.

    It's not obvious to me that these can be done in s-lang rather than C -
    can they?

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  • From J.B. Nicholson@21:1/5 to Julian Bradfield on Sat Nov 26 21:53:59 2022
    Julian Bradfield <jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
    There are a couple of things I'd like slrn to do for me:

    (1) Mark articles to return on newsgroup exit (the rn 'M' command),
    and/or mark articles to stay visible until the mark is cleared.

    slrn lets you press '*' to mark articles with an asterisk and
    temporarily fix their unread status. An article marked with a '*'
    won't be marked read when you catchup that group from article mode.

    The '*' mark won't be there when you quit group mode and re-enter that
    group. If you'd like the '*' tag to remain across re-entering the
    group (including across slrn sessions) for as long as your newsserver
    carries the affected article, consider installing Stickytags https://forestfield.org/slrn/stickytags.tar.gz which is a slrn macro
    written in S-Lang.

    (2) Followup to multiple tagged articles in one post.

    I'm not sure that I clearly understand what this means. Do you mean
    posting one article which will be seen in threaded newsreaders to be a
    child article (1st-level descendant) of multiple other articles? Or
    something else?

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