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    From Dacav Doe@dacav@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Fri May 8 21:45:03 2020
    Hi news folks,

    You might have noticed how lynx(1) displays by default a group description, while slrn(1) does not.

    In case you like this feature as I do, here follows instructions on how to accomplish it. I learned this information via the excellent manual that is distributed with slrn, usually installed in $prefix/share/doc/slrn/manual.txt See section 5.3.5.

    1. Modify your ~/.slrnrc, and add a '%d' placeholder somewhere. For example, this is my current setting:

    group_display_format 0 "%F%-5u [%-6t] %30n %d"

    2. Force a re-download of group names via `slrn -d`.


    Happy hacking
    dacav
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  • From James Tomasino@tomasino@cosmic.voyage to tilde.meta on Sat May 9 13:21:48 2020
    On 2020-05-08, Dacav Doe <dacav@tilde.institute> wrote:
    You might have noticed how lynx(1) displays by default a group description, while slrn(1) does not.

    We on cosmic have a lazy script wrapper for slrn called 'news' that
    handles the basic --create & -d bits. Here's the source:

    #!/bin/sh
    if [ ! -f "$HOME/.jnewsrc" ]; then
    # need to create newsrc
    slrn --create
    fi
    slrn -d
    slrn

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  • From tinfoil-hat@tinfoilhat@tilde.club to tilde.meta on Mon Jul 13 06:18:34 2020
    On 2020-05-09, James Tomasino <tomasino@cosmic.voyage> wrote:
    On 2020-05-08, Dacav Doe <dacav@tilde.institute> wrote:
    You might have noticed how lynx(1) displays by default a group description, >> while slrn(1) does not.

    We on cosmic have a lazy script wrapper for slrn called 'news' that
    handles the basic --create & -d bits. Here's the source:

    #!/bin/sh
    if [ ! -f "$HOME/.jnewsrc" ]; then
    # need to create newsrc
    slrn --create
    fi
    slrn -d
    slrn

    Thank you both, this is great!
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