Re: scoring interface

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

"Robin S. Socha" <robin@socha.net> writes:

> Anyone into writing movie scripts? I just got this idea for one. Call it
> Gnusiphos: hubrid user of GNU newsreader/MUA fucks with lesser god and
> is punished by having to write a ref-card for it, forming it into a ball
> and rolling it up a mountain in Finland. Each time he's close to the
> mountain's peak, the lesser God comes along, laughs and throws him Yet
> Another Patch.

:-)

> Now, what does V t give me? This:
> 
> ("<deathsquad.m3emfnw2ik.fsf@socha.net>" nil 730022 s)  ->  /home/robin/news/score/nnml:DingGnus.SCORE
> ("Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>" 130 730022 s)  ->  /home/robin/news/score/nnml:DingGnus.ADAPT
> ("scoring interface" 3 730022 f)  ->  /home/robin/news/score/nnml:DingGnus.ADAPT
> 
> This is totally unintuitive.

It's intuitive to *me*.  :-)

> I mean, yeah right, I know what this means (I guess...) but who is to
> use this? In a less imperfect world, I'd imagine getting something like:

You have, of course, tried `V C'?

> True. Let me try to outsmart you like this: WIBNI if there were more
> dialogue-like thingies? Like, hitting "a" asks you who to send it to,
> what subject to use and so on.

No, that would be very un-nice.  Most commands take a default.  To
alter that default, you give the commands a prefix.  If you want the
commands to prompt, then people would have to hit `I A RET' all the
time, when they now can just say `I A'.  We win nothing and lose lots.

> Like, say, pine does ]:->

Eggzactly.  :-)

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