Re: [Pan-users] A Bug and a question

[Charles Kerr]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 06:39:04PM +0100, Edith Gross wrote:
> 1)
> I tried to file the bug report about the crash on Windows but it seems to 
> be complicated. It seems to me that Pan runs into problems when dealing 
> with news groups with many files in it. I read for example a news group 
> that contains over 200000 headers at the moment and it seems that Pan is 
> having problems with such groups.
> But I do not know, how make a backtrace or a log.

http://pan.rebelbase.com/bugs/ has step-by-step instructions.

> 2)
> When I am composing a new message, the editor window is scrolled 
> horizontally and this is a bit disturbing. I tried several options but none 
> of them helped. How can I tell Pan to use the editor window without 
> scrolling horizontally and wrap around instead?

It's Usenet convention to post messages with line widths of
about 72 characters, which is why the composer window wraps
at that point rather than at the width of the composer window.

cheers,
Charles