[Pan-users] Re: Feature request: edit whole message in external editor.

[Laurent Fousse]

Hi Lenroc,

[Please Cc me on reply, manually copy/pasting from pan archives is
painful]

> > I'd like to be able to edit the whole message including headers when
> > composing a forward. I would then be able to delete/edit those
> > headers, or add some.
> 
> Currently, as far as I can tell, the best Pan can do is edit the
> message body in a separate editor.
> 
> What control, specifically, are you missing over the headers using
> Pan's native UI?

Sometimes I want to add some X-* custom headers. Manually change
Organization. 

But mainly it's not so much a matter of controling the headers as
simply _displaying_ them. Replying to a naked body text does not feel
the same than having the headers in the same text window in the
editor. Context does matter.

> If you just want to add headers, you can do that natively, though not
> in an external editor.

I don't think it's the UI's job to edit headers. I find pan's UI very
pleasant to use for almost everything, except when composing a message
(which is, after all, an important task of a newsreader). I would like
pan to give over full control to the external editor at this point.

> Allowing external editors to have access to the headers would open up
> a whole barrel of worms. In order to keep it's GNKSA, Pan would have
> to validate the headers the external editor presented to it.

Yes, I can understand that. Validating your article against the
relevant rfc does not seem so difficult however.

> Again, what is it specifically that you want to do, but can't natively
> in Pan?

Well, nothing. I could do it all in pan, but I would miss the features
of my external editor. Currently I'm confronted with the dilemma of
either composing a message in pan's editor and see the whole article
but miss the features of my editor, *or* use an powerful external
editor that can only operate on a castrated body-only version of the
reply. I feel the situation could be somehow improved.

Laurent.

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