Re: Of Yarn and Source Code
From: rex (rex@ptw.com)
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 13:21:57 -0800
frankie@mundens.gen.nz (Frank G. Pitt) wrote:
>ciaran@dynamite.com.au (Ciaran Dunn) wrote:
>>In article <eHQE14Fv5OUJ092yn@mundens.gen.nz>, you wrote:
>
>>>Personally I'd like a GUI interface to Yarn, so that
>>>I can do useful things like look at more than one mail
>>>message at a time, and copy and paste between them.
>>>
>>>That's my end goal.
>>
>>Cool. Mine too :)
>
>I don't think some people realize just how useful it is
>to be able to open multiple articles or letters.
>Currently, I get round the problem by saving stuff to files and
>opening it in a texct editor, but multiple windows would
>so much more useful.
[snip]
You can have more than one session of Yarn running, even as the same
user. I'm replying to your message with Yarn and Aurora in a DOS window,
and have Yarn open to folders in another DOS window. I can paste from a
folder to this window.
Like some (many?) others on the list, I much prefer to write text
without a GUI, and it's not likely that I'd give up my DOS editor, Aurora.
Now if someone would port both Yarn and Aurora to Linux...
Good luck on the port to Java, and I hope you don't forget the folks
who prefer text mode.
Regards,
-rex