Re: [Pan-users] Feature requests

[Charles Kerr]

> Hans Verkuil wrote:
> 
>> The first feature request concerns the directory for saving attachments. By 
>> default they go to News/Pan, or to the directory you supply yourself. I'd 
>> really like to see a checkbox to set the default to News/<groupname>. I'm 
>> pretty sure I've come across a similar feature in another newsreader and I 
>> think it makes a lot of sense. I don't want to manually supply every group 
>> with its own save directory.

Bill Hester replied:
> I requested this feature a long time ago and got it.  Simply use %g in 
> the download directory name and it will be substituded for the groupname.

Right, but it's not advertised.  Pan should have a `help' button next to
the save-directory field in Edit|Preferences, just as it does for the
date format fields in the same dialog.