The best console app so far

[RichS]

Thank you for this thread! I just installed qkonsole_0.9.3-20040205_arm.ipk after having a minor problem with opie-konsole. It looks and works great!

[Mickeyl]

Thankfully we merged all the changes back which will appear in Opie 1.2

[RichS]

I have run into a minor problem with qkonsole_0.9.3-20040205_arm.ipk.

I tried to add a command to the drop-down list. It\'s a long command, which is why I wanted it automated so I wouldn\'t have to remember or type it in. it\'s:

slrnpull -d /var/spool/news/slrnpull -h news.mynewsserver.net

The whole thing works, but the display is useless on the 5600. There is of course the vertical scroll bar to see the numerous entries. But when a long entry is made, the display only shows the right side and there\'s no way to scroll horizontally to the left to see the beginning of the line. So all the commands are invisible except the tail end of the long one.

This should either wrap or have a horizontal scroll bar. At least keep it showing the left side so all the commands would be visible. The right side could be guess at with long commands...

I don\'t know how many people would enter such a long command line, but it seems to me that this is what such a thing is useful for. I can type \"ls\"...

Just a comment...

[zbones]

Richs,

I am glad to see you are still using slrn    so am I, it has been very usefull.

You can set an environment variable for the host ie

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export NNTPSERVER=news.mynewsserver.net

slrnpull -d /var/spool/news/slrnpull

The setting of the env variable can be put in your .profile too.

Makes the line a little shorter.

It may also be possible to code the directory in a variable too, I just hit the up arrow a few times as it gets run so often it\'s always in my history.

This doesn\'t answer your initial post, but is a workaround for this particular problem.

Have you tried the full screen mode of qkonsole? it makes slrn much better.

keep hacking.

Peter.

[RichS]

\'Course I still use slrn! ;-) Runs great and as long as it\'s set up to delete old posts in a short time frame it works fine. Sure didn\'t take much getting used to either. Now if we could weed out all thosse spam, troll and arhuement posts I\'d be a lot happier ;-)

I used the export command with just slrn (before slrnpull). But isn\'t that temprary? It would only stick for me until I close konsole. Then I had to do it again.

Now .profile I never looked into, and will very, very soon! Thanks.

[zbones]

In the console, type \"cd\" whithout an argument, this will take you to your home dir.  now type \"more .profile\"

You will see other variables being set here, add the slrn variables to this file, it will get run everytime you log in.

if you don\'t know vi, either use another editor, or see below.

copy the file (just in case) \"cp .profile .profile.old\"
\"vi .profile\"
in vi, scroll down to the last line, hit \"o\" to add a new line after the current.  Enter

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NNTPSERVER=news.mynewsserver.net press the cancel button for escape, enter

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:wq to write and quit vi.

You can also use kill files in slrn (they call them score files) once you have set up a scorefile in slrn config file, if you want to kill all messages from a particular poster hit k while reading one of his posts, select f for (from) and follow the prompts.   \"Esc 1 k\" will allow you to edit the score file (in vi again) you can kill all messages that contain certain words in the subject as well.  If you tel slrnpull to use the same scorefile, it won\'t even download killed posts.

If there is a huge thread which does not interest you, kill the thread, set a time limit of 30 days and you will not see any more messages from that thread.

A bit off topic for this thread, send me a pm if you are struggling.

Peter.

[RichS]

Thanks! I hate to admit it, but I tend to use a gui editor :-( The opie advanced editor is great for that kind of stuff because it has a search function and retains permissions, and doesn\'t add a .txt extender... vi I could just never get used to. I do have a memory problem and menus help me a lot, so I usually use pico.
The mods are in but I haven\'t had the time to do testing yet.

Score files? Gees I read about that and it just didn\'t sink in. Exactlly what I need. More than half the posts nowadays are spam and junk. What a shame... Thanks, I\'ll have to go back to the slrn docs and read up on it...

And you\'re right, we should have all this in the slrn thread. Maybe the moderator could move them?

[Brundle-rat]

I just installed Qkonsole on my SL-5500 with the Sharp 3.10 ROM.  I haven\'t done any extensive testing, but the escape (cancel) key in vi seems to work just fine -- both in fullscreen and windowed mode.  The cancel key does not exit the app.  (It will suspend the device if held down as it normally does.)  Qkonsole seems quite usable to me!

[RichS]

I believe the cancel/escape key problem was fixed for the .93 version. And I agree, it\'s a great app.