Re: [Pan-users] View ignored threads?

[Miguel Guedes]

On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 05:22 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> 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.*].
> 

That's great, Duncan - works like a charm! Thanks again for your help;
much appreciated.

-- 
Miguel