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looking for beta testers for new zephyr client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Coventry)
Tue Apr 30 16:05:04 2002
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:04:38 -0400
Message-Id: <200204302004.QAA09246@cutter-john.mit.edu>
From: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>
To: sipb@MIT.EDU, software-announce@MIT.EDU
hi, everyone. i've written a new zephyr client called pyze (pronounced
"pies", as in "in your face") and was hoping i could find people to try
it out. it's in the outland locker and runs on cluster linux and
solaris machines.. currently you run it with the command
/mit/outland/share/pyzephyr/pyze. it subscribes you to the classes in
your ~/.zephyr.subs file. there are three windows, a writing window at
the top, a status window below that, and a window that zephyrs are sent
to below that.
F5 quits the application.
hitting space results in it asking you for a class and instance to send
to. you type these in the upper window, and hit meta-s when you want to
submit them.
hitting "s" gives you a list of recently seen class-instance pairs and
people who've sent you personals. you move among them using control-n
and control-p, and choose one with return. you can abort the choice
with escape.
when you've specified the destination of a zephyr, you enter its body in
the top window. this uses basic emacs keybindings. you can edit the
destination with the keys F8, F9 and F10, which edit the class, instance
and recipient respectively. submit the zephyr for sending with meta-s,
or abort with F1.
"b" and "f" move back and forth over the current list of zephyrs. "C"
returns to displaying a list of the most recent zephyrs.
"f" prompts for text to filter the current list of zephyrs on. it's
actually processed as a regexp, but just using text will usually work.
enter the text and submit it with meta-s. only zephyrs which match the
filter in the class, instance, sender or body are listed.
"C" clears the filter and displays all zephyrs.
"e" prompts for some python code to evaluate. it's mostly for
debugging, and you probably mostly won't want to use it.
enjoy, and get in touch if you find bugs or have suggestions.
alex.
