Re: [Pan-users] Re: Two options I REALLY miss

[Bruce Bowler]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:02:01 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <address@hidden> put fingers to keyboard and said:

> Bruce Bowler <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Wed,
> 25 Apr 2007 09:19:02 -0400:
> 
> > There are 2 options that got dropped from the 0.1xx line that were in
> > the 0.14.x line that I REALLY REALLY miss.  They are options that I
> > used at least weekly, if not daily...
> > 
> > While I understand the desire to minimize code bloat, they are 2
> > options that I consider essential in a news reader.
> > 
> > They are "Print article" and "Email article".
> > 
> > Any chance they'll be making a comeback?  If I could pick only 1, it
> > would be print.  I realize there are workarounds, but they are, IMHO,
> > all a pain, and make the application less than user friendly.
> 
> The print article feature is feature-request bugged.  Charles says it 
> /will/ be making a comeback at some point (and IIRC the accels.txt
> hotkey dump still has a reserved print function, that doesn't work ATM,
> of course), but he's planning on using the newly added to GTK print 
> functionality when he does add it back.  According to the last
> discussion I saw, it's actually in released GTK now, but only the last
> version or two.  So anyway, when it /does/ return, don't expect it to
> work on old GTK-2.6 versions or the like, as they don't include the
> functionality pan will be using.

I don't really care *how* pan does it, I just want a button I can push or
a menu item I can select that will print the current article.  It would
be *nice* if there were a way to customize it a bit, perhaps even to
*not* use the GTK stuff but rather to execute a user specified command (I
use enscript to print mail for example). 

> You mentioned workarounds, so you probably already know about the save 
> text, open in your favorite text editor or whatever, and print from 
> there, and that's just not cutting it.  If you didn't know, well,
> that's how I'd do it, anyway.

That's exactly what I do (and it's probably causing me to save a few
trees 'cause I print a lot less now :-)

> As for mailing article, pan has that functionality now, tho it uses the 
> configured mailer helper now instead of handling it all itself.  As
> such, I'm not sure what exactly you are referring to as missing now.

The only references to mail that I see in the version of pan I'm using
(0.125, self compiled, on fc5) are under Edit>>Preferences, where I see
the option to tell pan which mail reader to use, and under post which has
"reply to author in mail" (which appears to not use the mail reader
specified under edit preferences).  True, I had forgotten about "reply to
author in mail" which can be used to do what I want to do, which is
forward the article on to someone else, but it adds the > marks which (if
I remember correctly) old pan didn't do if you used the "forward article"
option.  If I missed an option, please give me a hint where to look...

Bruce

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