[Pan-users] Re: Undelete convenience

[Duncan]

Nicolas FRANCOIS <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Tue, 01
Apr 2008 03:15:52 +0200:

> I saw this message about someone pressing the delete button while
> thinking he was editing a message, and finding that he had deleted a
> precious message.
> 
> Well, I sympathize, because I do this about once a week.
> 
> Pan is great, but it definitly lacks a trash convenience, or at least
> some way to confirm the delete action to prevent it from being
> definitive.

Well, note that it should already be possible to remap something else, 
say shift-delete, to the "article delete" action, by editing the 
accels.txt file.  It may or may not be possible to do it from the GUI, 
due to the special function of the delete key (which would normally 
delete any hotkey assigned to that menu action), but it should certainly 
be possible to edit accels.txt directly (with pan closed, of course).

In the accels.txt file (found in pan's data dir, ~/.pan2 for pan > 0.90, 
by default, ~/.pan for old-pan, 0.14.x and previous) you'll find an 
unsorted list of all the menu items along with their assigned hotkeys, if 
any.  Don't bother sorting it, or if you do, save the file to something 
else and copy it back every time you make a change, as pan just does an 
unsorted dump to the file every time it shuts down and that'll overwrite 
your sorting.  

An initial semicolon (;) on a line indicates a comment line.  If you've 
never changed any of the accels from the defaults, the entire file will 
consist of comment lines, pans default menu accel scheme.  To change any 
accel, simply remove the semicolon at the beginning to activate the line, 
and delete or change the accel to what you want.  If two actions map to 
the same accel, pan will see one but not both.  I don't know if it uses 
the first or the last one it sees, but since they are in no particular 
order anyway, it'll be essentially random which one is activated.  Thus, 
before adding or changing an accel, you should search to see if the new 
one is already active for something else, deleting it or changing it 
first.  Of course, that could lead to a whole chain of changes if the 
accel you want for the second one is also used for something else.

If you are making just a single edit, it's simplest to use your text 
editor's search function and make the edit directly.  If you're like me, 
however, and have a whole different accel scheme in mind, one which you 
may make further changes to from time to time, it's likely worthwhile to 
actually do the sort and save the file to something else (say 
accels.txt.bak or accels.txt.2008.0401 using the date as appropriate), 
then as I said copy it over pan's dump file any time you make a change.  
I also found it useful to keep a table of just which accels were used and 
which were free.  Thus, changing something here means two changes, one to 
the accels used/free table and one to the actual accel mapping used by 
pan.  Since an initial semicolon indicates a comment, I just included the 
table as a bunch of semicolon-ed comment lines.


I posted my file here before, for anyone that wanted to try it, but it 
has been awhile, so I might as well post it again.  I haven't changed the 
delete accel, so you'll need to do so if you choose to use this.

In the below, the entries are sorted into menu order, just as they appear 
in pan (or did at the time, I /think/ it's still up to date).  The accel 
table I mentioned above is at the end.

My scheme is basically as follows.  <modifiers> <letter>, where <letter> 
is associated with the action type. A=articles, T=threads, G=groups, 
H=headers.  In most cases similar modifiers do similar things.  Thus, G 
(by itself) is next group, T is next thread, and A is next article.  H is 
slightly different as next header makes little sense as A is already next 
article.  In this case, it's show headers, I believe maintaining the 
default mapping.

As is common, Shift means reverse or previous, so Shift-T means previous 
thread, Shift-A means previous article, and Shift-G would be previous 
group only there's no such function.  I used Alt for alternate, in this 
case "unread".  (This is sort of the reverse of pan's default, since it 
works better for me that way.  You may therefore wish to reverse my 
reverse. =8^)  So Alt-A means next-unread article, Alt-T next-unread 
thread, and Alt-G next-unread group.

I reserved the triple-modifier, Shift-Ctrl-Alt, for invoking various 
dialogs, with the various letters invoking the logically related dialog.  
L=log (event), T=task (manager), G=Group (prefs), N=Newsservers, 
P=Posting (profiles), etc.  One exception is deselect all articles, 
Shift-Ctrl-Alt-A.

Many other accels (F=followup, P=(new)post, C=char-monospace toggle, etc) 
remain at their defaults where possible.  Others I deleted, watch and 
ignore, for instance, since the general scoring accels (S/ctrl-S) work.  
For reply to author, I found followup just as easy, deleting the 
newsgroups entry and adding the mail addresses I wanted.  Notably, since 
I work from (an expanded, entry in preferences.xml) cache for binaries, 
D=download to cache (cache article), and since I normally view unread-
only, R toggles that, with M mark-read (the default) and Shift-M mark 
unread (didn't used to be the default, don't know if it is now) to take 
another look at later.

With that, I'm attacking the file below my sig (as identity/text, that 
is, just copied into the message), using the pan-attach-kd script I 
created to allow attaching files using pan's external editor 
functionality.  (Ask if you'd like details.  It's a script, nothing
fancy and requiring kdialog from the kdebase package for the GUI, but
it does make attacking files to pan's posts actually possible.)

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

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