Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / March 2008

Right, now say I wanted to score post that were cross-posted to
csm.advocay but not catch posts that were posted ONLY to advocacy? Or is
Xref exclusively the bastion of cross-posts?

It appears that any negative score will be at least marked as read.  Is
that settable? I'd like to have articles with a small neagtive not be
marked automatically as read.

and how about the various spammers?

Contitionals (if poster is from googlegroups AND quoted lines are more
than non quoted lines) or (if poster is from 'sales' OR 'store' or
'handbag'

That looks like, if I have it right:

[*]
Score: -5000
{:
 From: store
 From: sales
 From: handbag
 From: yahoo.com.cn
}

I still haven't decided if this is going to work or not.  I am currently
using it with just vim and doing it all in the terminal, but I am
finding I hate not having a GUI editor for things like spelling and
typos.  I don't know if, for example, I can tell bbedit to hard-wrap at
72 characters automatically or if it's something I would have to remeber
to do each time.

Anyway, I haven't decided yet what I'm going to do.

I find it easier to right-click and select "Open URL" from the menu.

Yep, I sure have.  although 'K' and then 'e' is faster.

I create entries to subtract points for google groups, add points for
threads I am taking part in, add points threads a couple of other people
are posting in, and subtract lots of points from some others.

Oh, in most newsreaders (even going back to the ancient<1> rn and nn)
killing a thread was a one key-stroke event.  And it really did KILL it.

Same with killfiling a user.

nano is a very nice editor.  But I want something that speaks OS X services
and OS X spelling.  See, I make LOTS of typos.  LOTS.  I've been typing
since I was 5 years-old, and that means that I never really learnt it well,
but I THINK I did, so I tend to type much faster than I really should, and
some words I type wrong so often it's kind of embarrassing.

<1> perhaps 'venerable' is a better choice.

I'v never heard of Pan.

<looks>

OK, that looks like an X app, am I right?

What I am trying to get to is something with the speed of slrn, and the
editing of BBEdit (and all the OS X goodness that comes with that).  I
almost have it.

set post_editor_command "FILE='%s';bbedit -w --new-window
$FILE;/opt/local/bin/fortune ~/mysigs >> $FILE"

that's my current editor command, and it works perfectly.  The issue
is that BBEdit either does not wrap at 72 characters, or it wraps EVERY-
THING at 72 characters, including the headers.  This breaks Refrences: and
X-Faces (not mine, but in theory).

I tried this:

set post_editor_command "FILE='%s';cp $FILE ${FILE}.new;bbedit -w --new-window
${FILE}.new;fmt -m -72 ${FILE}.new > $FILE;/opt/local/bin/fortune ~/mysigs >>
$FILE"

but the fmt command does not actually deal with the news headers correctly, and so it munges the post completely.  Right now, I just have to use soft-wrap in BBedit and then remember to go back in and add CRs

Obviously, both those set blocks are a single line.

So, I will probably end up with the second version, I just need to either
find, or write, a script that will work like fmt.  In fact, I may just have
the script strip the headers, run the rest through fmt, and then re-add the
headers.