Switched a while back from other newsreaders. Loving it but I'm missing some filters in newspro, of course newspro has some which other don't !!. At least I can't find it ;-( Can you please tell if the following is possible and when not if it would be consired for inclusion in a newer version.
+ Filter messages which are crossposted.
+ Downloaded.
+ Msg is a reply
+ Msg has replys
+ Real regular expressions engine (afaik wildmats are used now).
+ Msg downloaded but NOT yet saved
This last one is essential for me. I've dl-ed large amount of pics today. Option 'download and save'. Turns out a portion of it is not saved. Manually applying 'save attachements' however works.
Filters are the following ones possible/planned for newspro.
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wolverine2710
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i'm not sure regular expressions are needed they are slower and heavier than boolean wildmats, the question is what cannot be found in wildmats that is needed (it is not a problem to add them, there are free standard packages, just wildmat code is only one small function and the boolean extension i added is another small function, regex package is a couple of hundred KBytes I think).
downloaded but not yet saved maybe means the message has a body.
checking crossposted is possible if servers add xrefs info (usually they do wasting bandwidth).
with download and save eventually it should be easier to discern what is to download and what to download&save, i'm planning to add an indication in the icon that the message is going to be saved, but first i need to reaarange the way the save info is kept to make it possible.
downloaded but not yet saved maybe means the message has a body.
checking crossposted is possible if servers add xrefs info (usually they do wasting bandwidth).
with download and save eventually it should be easier to discern what is to download and what to download&save, i'm planning to add an indication in the icon that the message is going to be saved, but first i need to reaarange the way the save info is kept to make it possible.
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wolverine2710
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Regex: I'm a Unix buff and use regexes quite frequently. They are very powerfull and would allow me to filter much more precisely. Its true they are slower but you could make it an option (just like wilmat). I'm not saying I can't live witthout them (previous newsreader bnr2 had them) but I sure wouldn't mind if they were added in the future to newspro.
Downloaded not yet saved: This trick works as I the 'saving attachement/delete bodies switch' ON. Strange thing is that even after 'save manually' (mutliple times) sometimes newspro insists that an article has not been saved. Checking on disk reveals it has been been save multiple times. Only seem to happen If I dl LOTS of pics at one go (2000+).
Crossposted: when doing a F2 on an article it gives info like posted in newsgroup x, y and z. Eg newspro has already this information. Not quite sure why xrefs should be necessary.
Maybe you can aswer these questions.
Downloaded not yet saved: This trick works as I the 'saving attachement/delete bodies switch' ON. Strange thing is that even after 'save manually' (mutliple times) sometimes newspro insists that an article has not been saved. Checking on disk reveals it has been been save multiple times. Only seem to happen If I dl LOTS of pics at one go (2000+).
Crossposted: when doing a F2 on an article it gives info like posted in newsgroup x, y and z. Eg newspro has already this information. Not quite sure why xrefs should be necessary.
Maybe you can aswer these questions.
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Tha*Lunat!k
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The newsgroup info listed for each article within NewsPro relies on where you have retrieved headers from. Meaning if you download headers for alt.binaries.j00.sux0r and there's a new header in there, NewsPro will show only that newsgroup name for the location. If you then download headers from alt.binaries.I.sux0r and that same article has been crossposted, NewsPro will show the location as both groups. Before seeing headers in each group the article is in, however, NewsPro lists only where you've seen it. It doesn't draw that information from any header info in that specific article.
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no, if you saw a filter on crossposted somewhere the number is calculated from the unwanted xref field.
in the future i reserved more space for flags - 16 bits instead of currently 8 per record along with more flexible code so i'll be able to add more flags like completed downloads more easily.
adding regexes in principle is not a problem it is only calling a different match function, just my association about regular expressions lies around the automata theory, pretty boring stuff (even if i'm not going to implement them and take a ready package).
in the future i reserved more space for flags - 16 bits instead of currently 8 per record along with more flexible code so i'll be able to add more flags like completed downloads more easily.
adding regexes in principle is not a problem it is only calling a different match function, just my association about regular expressions lies around the automata theory, pretty boring stuff (even if i'm not going to implement them and take a ready package).
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wolverine2710
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