Kenneth P. Turvey posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:09:58 -0500:
> Sometimes I would like to view a news message in its original format with > all headers left alone and the message body just like it was sent to the > NNTP server. Ideally I would like to open it in an external editor. > > Is there some way to do this in Pan? No, but yes. Not exactly within PAN, but yes, it can be done. One way, view the raw message as it is found directly in the PAN cache: First, within PAN, hit your "Show all headers" hotkey (or use the menu entry) if necessary, to view the message-id. This (with any non-fs-legal characters substituted, don't remember what to, tho) plus the .msg extension is the filename of the raw message in the PAN cache (normally found under the PAN data dir, which is normally ~/.pan/data). You should therefore be able to open up that file from the cache, in your editor of choice. Do note, however, that you probably do **NOT** want to go browsing for it in anything that displays filetype icons for all the files it lists (a typical graphical file manager or even file-open dialog), particularly if you have a cache of some size. If you try, the file manager or open dialog could easily be stuck for quite some time... reading the possibly tens of thousands of files in the cache and trying to associate icons with them all! If it sounds as if I'm talking from experience, it's because I am! I made the mistake of trying to open the cache in Konqueror at one point! (Browsing the cache in something like midnight commander (mc) is fine, as it's text based and doesn't try to assign icons or whatever, so it's decently speedy.) The "cache view" method should work even if PAN chokes on the message, for some reason, as long as it was able to download it. There is, however, an easier way, under normal circumstances. Just use PAN's save-as feature, to save as text (not attachment). That will normally spit out the "raw text" message, including headers, still encoded attachments, and everything. It does NOT just spit out the viewable text (or at least didn't used to, I haven't needed to try it in awhile, but haven't seen any mention of it changing, either, so...). Then you can simply open the file you just saved in the editor of your choice. As I said, this is easier than the cache-view method, but it's possible this won't work, if you've hit a bug and are trying to investigate why PAN's choking on a particular message, for instance. If PAN can't display the message, it's rather difficult to have PAN save it! <g> -- 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 in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
