Re: MuGS 2.0 features

[taob@r-node.hub.org (Brian Tao)]

[One cool thing about MuGS... it's very easy to redirect an e-mail reply
back into a newsgroup... ;-) ]

In article <9304092155.AA06180@apple.com>, tuu writes...
> 
> In article <1993Apr5.011407.4645@r-node.hub.org> you write:
> >    MuGS is an ongoing shareware Internet news and mail offline reader
> 
> NEWS?? Wow. I thought it was just mail.  Is it like rn? Can you reply to
> posts? sorry if these are answered below.. I'm replying as reading this!

    Version 2.0 only has minimal support for Usenet messages.  You can
read/reply to them, but you have to address your reply to the mailing
list address or a mail->news gateway.  Version 3.0 (I'm working on it
right now) uses inews to post to Usenet.

> >  o Download compressed mail packets using your favourite terminal
> >    program with a single command
> 
> TERMINAL PROGRAM?!  Doesn't this do UUCP? (rhetorical question I guess).
> So I guess this isn't a whole "all in 1" package for having my home
> computer be a 'mail site' for example...

    Hey, I did say MuGS is an "offline reader".  You won't see the word
"UUCP" mentioned anywhere in the feature list or the docs (except when
telling you it *isn't* UUCP). ;-)  However, a cron'able mail/news
transport system is under development right now.  When we finally do get
UUCP on the GS, I can easily update the MuGS code to output in the
appropriate file formats.

> >  o Full-screen reply editor: auto-quote reply, reformat reply, word
> >    wrap, include text file, etc.
> 
> vi!

    No!  Although I supposed you could bind your editing keys to be
vi-like.  Apple-S sends your reply, Apple-O opens a text file for
inclusion, Apple-Tab requotes a line, Apple/Option-arrows work as
expected (beginning/end of word/line/page/document).

> >  o One-step "Gripe" command for sending comments and bug reports  :)
> hahaha

    Got the idea from the xrn "Gripe" button... :)

> Have you looked at the "mush" mail reader in curses mode? It's really
> cool. (and might be a good thing to emulate)

    No, we only have ELM here and something called "mh" which looks like
some sort of modeless mail reader.
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