jef_e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:22:33 -0500:
> (Would this be a good time to mention that customizing the order of the > Subscribed Groups list would be a nice thing) ;-) I'm not sure if custom order per se is on the request list, but some method of at least categorizing them is. It may (or may not) show up as another level of tree, inserted between the subscribed groups level and the group list itself. Meanwhile, there are two current ways to manage things if your list of subscribed groups is very long. One way is to use the search function to limit the groups displayed. This is probably the simplest, but I don't use it. The second method of categorizing groups is to actually have multiple instances of pan, each with its own configuration. This is what I do, with one for text, another for binaries, and another for testing. Each one has (as I said) its own config, with stuff like the score file and accels.txt keyboard shortcuts customizations in a global location pointed to by symlinks from each individual config dir. How is this accomplished? Simple. The PAN_HOME environmental variable can be used to point pan at its configuration if you don't want to use the default ~/.pan2. I simply use stub-scripts to start pan, named pan.bin, pan.test, etc, with each one setting the PAN_HOME variable as appropriate, so they don't interfere with each other. Then I subscribe to different groups (on different servers in some cases) for each instance as appropriate. This works surprisingly well as for many things I want different settings for binaries than for text groups anyway. I don't have that many subscribed groups, however. If I had more, I'd break it down further, splitting both text groups and binaries up by interest. -- 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 Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
