[Pan-users] Re: Changing the Save Article behavior for text only messages.

[SciFi]

Hi,

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:50:52 +0000, Eric Tompkins wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to get the current release of Pan to use the Subject as
> the filename when saving text only messages, instead of the Message ID.
> The old Pan did this, and it worked great for text only groups. When
> reading / saving several posts, trying to figure out the subject later
> involves reading each one. Not very fast.
> If it cant be changed in a configuration file, could it be changed in
> the source and a new binary built from that?

You can sort–of do this with a source code patch mentioned in
Bug #403797 <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403797>.
Please read the comments and note it is a “proof of concept”
only, not supported, etc.

I have been using this patch ever since r207 as I mentioned
there-in.  I am at r364 now and it still works quite well,
altho it might need re-adjusting these days.  (I use gmane to
monitor & post to this group/list, hoping my RFC headers will
show thru with a bit more detail how modified my pan2 is here:
the User-Agent line should show all the custom patches I have
applied so far [bug–report numbers].  ;)  )

At least Mr Kerr took note of this enhancement, so there is
hope it can be rolled–in at some point.  (btw wow it will soon
be Two Whole Years since then!)

> Would this be better asked in gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.devel ?

I think -devel is for actual development.
Your “how to” question is suited for -user here IMO.

> Thanks

HTH     :)