Lars J. Aas <larsa@sim.no> wrote: : I've noticed there are a few people posting news with X-Face headers, and : I would like to be able to see the xface of whoever I'm reading the message : from with xfaces. I figure I probably only need trn to fake/update a spool- : file of some sort by dumping a the header to a file whenever I read a : message, and xfaces will update itself when the file changes. Got a 20% solution working now, but I'm far from satisfied. After getting $NEWSHEADER set up in .bashrc to get my X-Face data processed by bash and trn to end up correctly in my news messages, I set up this macro: \040 %(%m=[ap]? : )%(%m=[ap]?!rm -f %~/current^MS%~/current^M) This will in the selector, when I press space, send the space on, and then run the commands for storing the current message as ~/current afterwards. I've started xfaces with the commandline "xfaces -s ~/current" so it monitors that file. The problems with this approach are: * It only works as long as I space through messages. If I manoever around with arrow keys or n, p, etc., the macro isn't triggered. Also, the first message I view isn't stored in 'current'. I can of course hook up this for *all* article-manoevering commands, but that's a solution I want to avoid. * The second part of the macro is %-interpreted already at the point when the macro is triggered. The %m-conditional is therefore the same for both tests. What I'm trying to do is to avoid having the store commands executed when I've read the last article, and trn returns to the article-selector or newsgroup level. I haven't been able to achieve that. The macro looks weird, I know - it's just how it ended up after I've tried different things - the second macro started out embedded inside the true-clause of the first macro-part. * The execution of the article-storing commands ought to be invisible, as well as trn's response to them. I didn't find a way to do that. I tried to insert ^S + ^Q to freeze the terminal while doing those commands, but discovered that the output still gets through (as it should - I remebered incorrectly). Does anyone know of any control-sequence that will put the terminal output in the bitbucket until told otherwise? Maybe this is terminal-specific and won't work when being sent from an application for all I know.... Anyways, tbe first two problems would be solved if macros could be hooked up to events in addition to key-strokes, so I could define a macro that would be run when the pager is about to display an article. I didn't see any such thing being possible though... Anyone? Lars J ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. Get a guide here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en
