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    From rek2 hispagatos@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 28 01:46:14 2022
    Hello I been using slrn I try to use everything on TUI/CLI tools and
    slrn is ok, but lacks a lot of features I will like, as in color theme
    and VIM keys by default.
    Any software out there with colors/vim keys for the terminal/tui?

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  • From Nigel Reed@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Apr 28 01:27:22 2022
    On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 01:46:14 -0000 (UTC)
    rek2 hispagatos <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Hello I been using slrn I try to use everything on TUI/CLI tools and
    slrn is ok, but lacks a lot of features I will like, as in color theme
    and VIM keys by default.
    Any software out there with colors/vim keys for the terminal/tui?


    You could always use tin which does use vim as the editor, if that's
    your default editor of course.


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  • From Henning Hucke@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Apr 28 07:04:28 2022
    On 2022-04-28, rek2 hispagatos <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Hi nameless poster,

    Hello I been using slrn I try to use everything on TUI/CLI tools and
    slrn is ok, but lacks a lot of features I will like, as in color theme
    and VIM keys by default.
    Any software out there with colors/vim keys for the terminal/tui?

    slrn uses colors - at least my one does. If yours doesn't use color then
    RTFD (read the fucking documentation) and configure your prefered color
    bay yourself. Same applies to the used key settings.

    Best regards
    Henning
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    In practise there is.
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  • From rek2 hispagatos@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 28 17:39:12 2022
    Sorry I did not explain my self,
    SRLN does use vim as the editor but to navigate arround it does not use
    VIM keys
    Colors: you can change some colors but there is no background
    transparency as far as I can tell.


    Hi nameless poster,

    Hello I been using slrn I try to use everything on TUI/CLI tools and
    slrn is ok, but lacks a lot of features I will like, as in color theme
    and VIM keys by default.
    Any software out there with colors/vim keys for the terminal/tui?

    slrn uses colors - at least my one does. If yours doesn't use color then
    RTFD (read the fucking documentation) and configure your prefered color
    bay yourself. Same applies to the used key settings.

    Best regards
    Henning


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  • From Henning Hucke@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Apr 28 19:26:04 2022
    On 2022-04-28, rek2 hispagatos <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Sorry I did not explain my self,
    SRLN does use vim as the editor but to navigate arround it does not use
    VIM keys
    Colors: you can change some colors but there is no background
    transparency as far as I can tell.
    [... full quote deleted ...]

    You can also redefine a lot of key combinations. I'm not shure that you
    can exactly copy key combinations which are semantically the same as
    with vim but you can at least redefine them as shurely also come as
    close to vim as possible.

    Whats the point with "background transparency"? Honestly I don't know
    _any_ ansi graphics reader which knows more than "background color".

    Regards,
    Henning
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  • From meff@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Apr 29 06:42:04 2022
    On 2022-04-28, rek2 hispagatos <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Sorry I did not explain my self,
    SRLN does use vim as the editor but to navigate arround it does not use
    VIM keys

    slrn is pretty configurable and you can pretty much set any key to
    mean anything. It has its esoteric Slang which lets you extend slrn a
    lot. As far as writing posts or follow-ups, as others have said,
    $EDITOR is all you need set.

    Colors: you can change some colors but there is no background
    transparency as far as I can tell.

    My default slrn installs have color. I'd be happy to share my color
    configs if you'd like. As far as background transparency, my
    suggestion would be to just use your terminal emulator to make the
    background transparent. slrn's "background" is just the absence of
    color or text.

    FWIW I've thought about writing a more "modern" newsreader too. I'll
    admit I found slrn pretty rough in the beginning, but once I got the
    key shortcuts down, its low latency and no-nonsense navigation wormed
    it into my heart. There's still lots of room for improvement here.

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