Re: [Pan-users] Making Pan behave like OE/Windows Mail

[David WE Roberts]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:06:12 +0000, David WE Roberts wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:03:25 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> 
>> David WE Roberts posted on Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:42:30 +0000 as
>> excerpted:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:51:12 +0000, David WE Roberts wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Now fixed email address (I hope).
>>>> "David WE Roberts" <address@hidden>
>>>> wrote in message news:...
>>>>>I asked this question elsewhere and was directed here.
>> 
>> This would be the place. =:^)
>> 
>>>>> I can see that I can watch threads, and also (with a bit of
>>>>> investigation) write a rule so that I watch any thread I start.
>>>>>
>>>>> What I would then like to do is sort the header pane so that all the
>>>>> watched threads are at the top and threaded, and then the rest of
>>>>> the unwatched threads are displayed with the default behaviour i.e.
>>>>> threaded and displayed in date order of start of thread.
>>>>>
>>>>> However in Pan if I sort on score I see the watched threads at the
>>>>> top but then the other posts unthreaded below in date order of
>>>>> posting (I think).
>> 
>> Seems you figured out the threaded thing below, but FWIW, pan has a
>> toggle for threaded or unthreaded.  There's no threading only half the
>> posts.
>> 
>>>>> Running Pan on various Windows PCs and under Ubuntu as well. One
>>>>> version is Pan 0.133 on Windows Vista 32 bit.
>> 
>> FWIW, 0.133 is now rather old.  I'm not sure how much you know about
>> pan history, but Charles Kerr was the lead dev for many years, then
>> eventually lost interest as he apparently doesn't do news any longer.
>> He repeatedly asked for volunteers willing to take over, but they
>> didn't appear right away, so for some years, pan pretty much stagnated.
>> 
>> IIRC 0.133 was the last Charles Kerr release, a maintenance release
>> integrating a security fix and a few patches to keep pan building with
>> current gcc against current libs, but not much else.  So even when it
>> was released, little had changed even then for several years.  0.133
>> was released on August 1, 2008.
> <snip>
> 
> Don't know where that version came from - finger trouble probably.
> Just upgraded to 0.135 and behaviour hasn't changed.
> 
> Going to latest Windows version next.


Behaviour confirmed in latest version 0.139.

Enhancement request logged with Bugzilla.

I note that the version numbering in Bugzilla doesn't seem to match the 
version numbering of the Windows versions.

I still don't understand why the latest threads want to snuggle up next to 
the negative scores instead of the positive scores.

Cheers

Dave R