Re: [Pan-users] View ignored threads?

[Duncan]

Miguel Guedes posted on Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:58:04 +0000 as excerpted:

> BTW, how can one un-ignore threads?

First way, via the GUI:

Once you can see 'em (g), click on any message you wish to change the 
score on, and use the "edit articles' watch/ignore/score" function (menu 
item under article, and AFAIK there's a default hotkey for it as well, 
maybe "s", alto I've so customized my hotkeys I'm not sure on that).

That brings up a dialog with all the scores that apply.  You can add and 
remove scores there, and there's even a "close and rescore" button, to 
apply the action dynamically.  (Do be aware that this triggers a full 
relisting in the header pane, so if you have view only unread turned on 
as well as auto-mark-read, the message you clicked will now be marked-
read and thus disappear with the re-display.  I just hit the close and 
rescore button... without changing a score but just hit the button after 
opening the dialog... on your message as I typed this, and your message 
originally being the only unread message in the group... disappeared as 
it was now read!)

Second way, edit the scorefile itself:

Pan's scorefile is named Score.  It's found in pan's normal data dir, 
thus being ~/.pan2/Score by default.  You can of course edit it using 
your favorite text editor, either with pan closed, or to see the results 
immediately with pan already open, use the same edit score, close and 
rescore method as mentioned above, to get pan to pick up the updated 
scorefile.  Or just quickly click to a different group and back, as pan 
applies scores on group (re)entry as well.  Of course, the same "all read 
messages now disappear" caveat applies, if you have view only unread 
messages turned on.

I went into some detail on the scorefile format, along with examples, in 
my big long (459 line, pan says) reply in the Pan GUI config file edits 
thread, a couple days ago.  As I said there, if you use scoring (which 
includes watches and ignores) a lot, it's well worth text-editing the 
scorefile directly, combining all the entries pan adds one at a time, 
making it much more efficient for both pan and humans to read. =:^)

This goes doubly so if like me you use ignores for spam control and 
accumulate hundreds or thousands of unexpiring entries over time, that 
can be combined into a single massive ignore score applying to all groups 
using a newsgroups/section entry such as [*] or [*.*] or (the one in the 
posted example, covering the full alt.* hierarchy but nothing else) 
[alt.*].

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