Hugo’s blog

I am giving MT-NewsWatcher a try as Gnus has been getting slower for me for some reason on my PowerBook. Also, it’s nice to have a real GUI rather than being inside Emacs.

There are a couple of things missing though: offline reading and adaptive scoring.

MT-NW supports AppleScripting and the dictionary shows plenty of things in the filter category, so it should be feasible to code adaptive scoring fairly quickly. However, I couldn’t find a lot of hacking around MT-NW on the Web.

So I am back to square one: having to learn a new language to do stuff on the Mac. I am afraid I am going to need to just get it over with, otherwise I’ll be bumping in this same AppleScript wall every couple of weeks. Sigh.

It took me a good while to figure this out. One can run AppleScript scripts under OSX using Spark. And it’s really cool.

The downside is that it’s yet one more scripting language to learn…