"Roger Shum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:04:21 -0800:
> With the old PAN (0.14.2), I was able to select/highlight a > few headers in the Header pane and right mouse click on > Read. > Pan would download all the selected articles. > Then I could read them. > > With the new PAN (0.123), it seems that I can't do this > anymoore. Is this true? If not, how can I perform this task? Charles apparently read your question differently than I did, so his answer is different. Hopefully one of us gets it right, and answers the question you thought you were asking. =8^) If I understand the question, what you are asking is how to "pre-cache" the articles, so they are already downloaded when you go to read them. Assuming that's correct, then yes, it's possible with new-pan, and indeed, that's one of my main modes of using pan, tho for binaries (my connection and news servers are fast/responsive enough that I can download text articles to order, as I read them, without issue). What want, then, is the "cache article" function. This can be found on the main article menu. It's also on the context menu when right-clicking on an article (or selected group of articles) in the header/overview pane. To select the articles, the usual methods should work. Keyboard: arrow keys along with shift to select a range inclusively, or control and space to select non-contiguous multiple entries. Mouse-keyboard-combo: click-select along with control or shift as appropriate. Mouse-drag: works if you have an up-to-date GTK+, as Charles mentioned. (FWIW, I routinely use the first two selection methods above here, but never missed mouse-drag as that just isn't intuitive to me, I guess, probably because the drag-n-drop interface was just about to get popular when I I got into computing, and it never worked consistently enough early on for me to find it useful enough to consider it "intuitive" now. Ctrl/shft-click for multi-select, or arrow keys with ctrl/shft, are both much more intuitive to me, and I find myself extremely frustrated if they fail to work in a GUI interface, since I just expect them to do so. In that regard I'm far happier with new-pan, since old-pan broke shift-arrow keyboard selection in ordered to allow drag select to work -- it was an either/or with GTK at the time according to Charles, and I found pan's broken keyboard selection personally frustrating even tho I knew why Charles made the choice he did to break it in ordered to enable drag-select, which I /still/ never used -- I just got used to doing shift-click only when working with pan, instead.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
