Re: [Pan-users] 2 Feature Requests

[Charles Kerr]

> First request:  I can't seem to find a way to turn off the automatic
> quoting of a message you're replying to.
> 
> I find that most of the time, I don't want to quote the message I'm
> replying to - and it's something of a pain to delete it by hand.
> 
> Ideally, there would be options similar to what's in Netscape 4.xx:
> 1. Automatically quote article being replied to.
> 2. Manually quote article being replied to (button on the reply dialog)
> 3. "Paste as Quotation" - take the text currently in the buffer and
> paste it as a quote with no attribution line.

Currently, if you hit reply and text is selected, just that text
will be quoed.  Otherwise, the entire body will be quoted.
Anyone else want to see the options as listed above?

> Second request:  It would be really handy if the references field was
> clickable; sometimes a parent message is in a different newsgroup and
> not in the current newsgroup - you can see the reference, but not the
> actual message.  It would be really nice if a click on a reference
> header item could result in the message indicated in the reference being
> displayed, either in the current or in a new window.

Oh, I like this idea.
We used to have this when we were using the html renderer;
gtk2 makes it possible now too.

Could you file an enhancement request for this on bugzilla.gnome.org?

cheers,
Charles