[1397] in SIPB bug reports
GRIPE about XRN 6.13
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Oct 30 20:44:12 1990
From: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 20:43:53 -0500
To: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Meta-gripe: The xrn gripe window is taller than my (RT) screen, so the buttons at
the bottom get cut off.
I have a few problems with xrn, which are issues of incompatibility with rn. With
"rn" I could type '=' and get a summary listing. With xrn, the summary capability
seems to have been lost. Without that feature, I'd have to once again change the
way I read news. (It's a user-interface issue, not a technical one, so I won't go
into detail, but just note that the lack of '=' equivalence means a significantly
more akward interface, in my opinion.) Another problem is that xrn doesn't
recognize rn's "-E" option. That's how I give it a different environment (to
override the real env vars) so I don't have to do stupidity like:
(setenv HOME /mit/dkk/fun ; xrn)
in order to keep the vast number of news dot-files in another directory.
