Re: Threading and other functionality Was: Usenet vs BBS

James Huang (james@sn.no)
Tue, 16 Apr 1996 21:43:55 +0100

In article <199604160433.AAA19722@ritz.mordor.com>,
Cooper@ritz.mordor.com, Jim <w2jc@ritz.mordor.com> wrote:

> | This can be done but at present, AFAIK, Yarn does not support
> | exporting several (to be quoted) articles simultaneously.
>
> here I use an editor (dos) called XyWrite, and IT provides the ability
> to open TEN files at the same time and to cut and paste between them.
> (I rarely use it for more than 3 at a time...)

I use Qedit which can have 9 (?) open in the editing ring. Can't
remember the exact number as I have never had the necessity to have so
many open at the same time.

> Why demand every bell and whistle be put into Yarn when the choice of
> your editor could solve the same problem, with a program that is
> refined within its field of application?

It is not the number of files which the editor can handle which is the
crux here. It is the number of articles Yarn can _export_ to the editor.

Qedit can be started with the command "q %1 %2 %3 %4 %n" but yarn sends
just %1. No possibility for more.

I would love a command for following up a thread in a newsgroup besides
following an article.

James