[Pan-users] Re: pan setting folder

[Duncan]

Jethro Tull <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Mon, 25
Aug 2008 19:08:53 +0000:

> I just read in the official Pan's FAQ that i could change the pan
> personal settings folder (by default ~/.pan) in the preference menu in
> pan. I'm using Pan 0.132 in a KDE environment and can't find anywhere i
> can set the settings folder in the preference menu or anywhere in pan.
> 
> actually my pan is storing its data and settings in ~/.pan2. I might
> have touched it long time ago, but now i don't find how to change it
> again.

Again, please kill the HTML.  Pan doesn't do HTML, please don't post HTML 
to the pan lists.

That FAQ is outdated, for old-pan (0.14.x and previous).

For new-pan, including the 0.132 you mention, the default is ~/.pan2, and 
you set and export the PAN_HOME environmental variable, pointing it at 
the appropriate directory.  pan reads that var if set in its environment 
and loads the config it finds in the pointed to dir.

In the servers reply, I mention using pan launcher scripts.  This is 
actually why I use them here -- to run multiple separate instances, each 
with its own separate configuration and cache, setting PAN_HOME 
appropriately before launching pan.  Here, I have three separate configs, 
binary, text, and testing, but obviously you can setup your configs for 
whatever usage you want.

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