Re: Using KNode 0.7.2, Wondering What Else is Out There

I'm taking the example points and replying to them in the Gnus context.

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
* Grip on 'motion granularity', e.g. mouse scrolling, which PageUp and PageDn
cannot achieve quite so well.

Either page up/down a screenful (well, a bufferful) at a time, or I
can scroll the article text a certain number of lines by typing "1 0
return" to scroll 10 lines. Positively routine and trivial.

* Highlighting of text that exceeds a screen-full.

Lacking context, this doesn't mean much; perhaps you should elucidate.
But the fact that there's more-than-a-screenful worth of text can be
seen from the modeline saying "Top" (rather than "All").

* Breakdown into multiple windows, possibly assigning each to a separate
virtual desktop

Please take a look at:
http://www.charcoal.com/~karl/gnus/screenshots/2006_30_31_061327_terminal.png
http://www.charcoal.com/~karl/gnus/screenshots/2006_30_31_061327_window.png
Those are screenshots taken a couple minutes ago of XEmacs, within
which Gnus is displaying your article. The first is XEmacs inside a
terminal, the 2nd is XEmacs as a native window.

Gnus provides multiple windows ("buffers"), full buffer arrangement
configuration, per-buffer labeling (in the modeline), newsgroup tree
display, article thread display (2 ways, both in summary and the tree
buffer), textual emphasis using the bold/revvideo capabilities of even
the blandest of terminals (and fully color- and font-capable as a
native window), scoring -- note that Blinky's preceding article is in
listed in bold because it scored up, which in turn is because my
scorefile caught his reference to Gnus by my Keywords rule -- and a
thousand other functions that aren't noticeable in a static screenshot.

On point to your fundamental question, what I find so nice about Gnus
is that it will play either as a native windowed application *or*
inside a terminal with equal ease. Gnus is quite button-click happy
as a windowed application, but is still completely drivable via its
keymaps either as a window or inside a terminal. (And in fact I drive
it mostly with the keyboard even as a windowed application.)

You will find it rather hard to convince me otherwise.

Only because you've decided what the facts are, rather than learning
what the facts are. That is not a wise course.
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