Subject: Using the Composer for news

From: [email-masked] (Scott Gifford)
Date: 20 Aug 1994 07:31:56 GMT

I really like Pine's composer interface for mail, and would like to 
modify it to work with UseNet news, with headers like Newsgroups up at 
the top instead of To, etc.  I've managed to get parts of it working, but 
as I get deeper and deeper in it's getting more and more confusing and 
hacked...Has anybody already done any work like this?  Or is there some 
good documentation of how the composer interface works?

  Thanks,

------Scott.

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From: [email-masked] (Ralph Sims)
Date: 20 Aug 1994 14:19:37 GMT

>good documentation of how the composer interface works?

Are you speaking of using PICO as the 'composer'?  I replaced the visual
editor pointers in the various newsreader's source code with pico and
it's working fine.  I wrapped pico in a little shell script to work
with the temp files (pico -n if memory serves), and all's well.

The downside is that more folks are posting to usenet now. :)

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From: [email-masked] (Scott Gifford)
Date: 21 Aug 1994 20:32:35 GMT

> The downside is that more folks are posting to usenet now. :)

( Sorry, Ralph, I mailed a response to you when I meant to post it... 
here's basically the same thing again)

  Sort of; I like the way it works within Pine, with a regular Pico 
editor on the lower half of the screen, and a set of headers at the top.  
I'd like to change these headers to things appropriate to news, such as 
"Newsgroups:" and "Distribution:".  I'd LIKE Pine to parse the headers 
for me, but I can certainly live with doing it myself.  Any suggestions?

  Thanks,

------Scott.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 1994 13:55:44 -0700 (PDT)

In Pine 3.89, even if you had the extra headers, it would not allow you to
post News.  The good news is that Pine 3.90 will be out very soon and will
allow you to post News and configure whatever headers you want! 

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