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Re: [Pan-users] View ignored threads?
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Miguel Guedes |
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Re: [Pan-users] View ignored threads? |
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Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:50:25 +0000 |
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