Re: [Pan-users] A Couple UI questions

[Andrew]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:47:45 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:

> > When browsing the header list in Pan with the up/down arrow keys,
> > the message view pane doesn't load the currently-selected message.
> > I'm not sure why -- it does when using ctrl-N/P. I would also like
> > to map leftarrow/rightarrow to collapse/expand thread, but I see no
> > way to do this.
> 
> Just using the arrow?  That shouldn't load the message, as arrow keys
> are used for navigation without selection/load.  (The ctrl/shift
> modifiers then allow traditional multi-select.)

All right. "Working as designed" isn't what I wanted to hear, but I
thought it might be the case. :-) I'll just use different keys.

Is there a way to assign keys to expand/collapse the current thread? I
don't see the option and, now that I look, don't see it in the menus
either.

> > I usually set my newsreader to cache all new messages. In Pan, if I
> > set preferences->actions->cache articles scoring at.... to [only
> > new], it does cache articles as I enter each group, but it also
> > marks them all read, which is not what I want. Not sure what's
> > going on there.
> 
> That would be a bug in the still relatively new actions feature.  I'm 
> actually not sure if it's fixed in the latest 0.139 or not.  Thanks
> very much for the report as that feature is new enough to need a bit
> of extra testing, and reporting when things don't work as expected.

If it's not fixed in the current release, I'd be willing to try my hand
at it if someone can point me in the right direction to contribute.

-- 

Andrew