Re: [Pan-users] To make PAN behave exactly like Agent

[Richard Smith]

Ilyak Kasnacheev wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> I'm looking at pan and i really like it for being similar to Forte Agent.
> But i would like to make it even more agent-like, to be able to use it :)
>
> Please tell me, how hard will this be and if these changes can make way 
> into official tree.
>
> I would like to:
> ** return keybinding 'make article unread' == 'Z'.
> I do not know why did developers dropped this keybinding - it is vital 
> if you want to return to this article later, for example.

I don't recall this ever being available in PAN, however, it's available 
under the Post menu. I can see how having it bound to a key would be useful.

> ** article should become 'read' only if you clicked its text, or got 
> into it with, say, 'next unread'.
> It should not become 'read' if i just clicked on this article in article 
> list.

go in to Edit -> Preferences, then put a checkmark on "single-click 
selects, rather than loads, headers"

> ** articles should be saved. not 'cached', i want every article that i 
> get to stay in message base forever.
> How hard will it be? I beleive there is already message base format for 
> folders, but i want same for newsgroups.

I don't know if there is a way to have articles saved when they are 
loaded, but you can save articles by having them selected and then doing 
a ctrl-s and check "Save Text."

> ** implement fidonet-like quoting, where:
> ==
> IK>> second level quote
> SO> first level quote
> message
> ==
> where letters are author's initials.
> (is someone interested? This is a *great* thing...)
> ** maybe something else, rest is OK.
>
> **() X-Comment-To field support (in fidonet groups, each message have 
> to:, that contains name (not address) of person(s), to whom this message 
> was written)

I can't comment on these as I've never felt it necessary to have them.

> So any hints, interest or skepsis are welcome.
>
> Sorry for my bad english.

No problem, everything was very clear and understandable, hope you like 
pan as much as the rest of us.


Richard