[1124] in SIPB bug reports
GRIPE about XRN 6.9 (for X11R4)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hindmost@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jun 25 09:49:30 1990
From: hindmost@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 90 09:49:08 -0400
To: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
And I thought it might be a useful program...
This really sucks:
xrn doesn't save _any_ information while it's running
(about subscriptions/unsubscriptions/read articles, etc.)
My xrn just died with a malloc error (presumably due
to the memory leak), and now all the groups I unsubscribed
to/read are back... If this had happened in rn, then
only the last newsgroup read would be corrupted.
Incidentally, xrn has some wrong behavior:
- ^N and ^P go to read messages as well
- If I hit ^N and there are no articles with that
topic left, it goes to the article right after
the one I first hit ^N from. Whether or not
it's been read already is ignored.
- <Space> doesn't mean ^N in this case; instead,
it's N again, even though I haven't hit N!
This is annoying, since I have to think about
whether or not I can just hit <Space>, or
if I have to hit ^N yet again.
I think there are a bunch of other unuseful things, but
there may be valid reasons why they differ from rn
(perhaps different ways to do things).
Guess I'll have to stop reading news and go back to
my thesis :-(.
-Brian
ps. This is the last bug-report you'll be getting from
me; xrn just isn't worth the hassle...
