Re: [Pan-users] ANN: Pan 0.13.92 - "She said that MY DEAD CAT WAS STUPID."

[Charles Kerr]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:16:44PM -0000, Paul Hudson wrote:
> (Windows beta 8)
> 
> Mostly working fine, and I'm nearly ready to change from Xnews.
> 
> Bug: When I press OK in the Preferences dialog, other applications pop to
> the front (it looks like Pan goes to the back)

This is a gtk-on-windows bug already in bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107323

> Bug: I had to create a News directory in my Documents and Settings directory
> before score files would get created.  Pan should really create this itself
> if it doesn't exist.

I've opened a Pan ticket for this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109279

> Bug: How do I enter a escape-sequence into a score file? Entering \b  (for
> word boundary) goes into the score file as \\b . I think this is an error.
> Hand editing the score file to \b means the score works as expected.

I've opened a Pan ticket for this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109280

> Feature request: Can we have an option to find and edit the score file (in
> Notepad, say). There seems to be no other way of editing existing score
> rules?

You can do this from the `view article scores' dialog.

> Feature request: The score file has LFs (presumably) as line separators.
> This make it difficult to edit under Windows. Could it use the Windows line
> endings, please?

I've opened a Pan ticket for this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109281
But this probably isn't going to be fixed for awhile.

> Feature request: For us Xnews veterans, it would be nice to have a mode
> where the group pane appeared on its own, but the article list and articles
> were tiled (vertically or horizontally). I think this is a good feature of
> Xnews - I'm looking at articles and article lists, I want to look at both,
> but I normally don't want to look at groups.

As noted in some other users' replies, you can kind of do this already. :)

-- 
cheers,
Charles