On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:06:17 +0000, walt wrote: > On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:28:58 +0000, Duncan wrote: > >> ...I'd much /rather/ have the >> old idea back, separate direct-save (binary, to the last or default >> location for the group) and save-as (with the usual choices)... > > I had forgotten how Old Pan did it but, now that I've checked, I > wouldn't mind going back to it either. I notice that the new Save As > > Actions drop-down menu includes three choices rather than two -- the > third choice being one that I personally would never use under any > condition I can think of at the moment: 'Save Attachments & Text'. > > I would much rather have one Toolbar icon for 'Save Text' and a second > for 'Save Attachments' and be able to click them separately if I really > wanted to do both (very unlikely). > > Charles, was there a request for that third combined option? I'm > curious to know why someone would need it. > > Thanks!
fwiw that third option was ‘the’ one way to possibly work around the utf8 problems we were having in bug #424381. I definitely say we need to keep that option – we could try feeding the post into external utils such as uudeview for processing in case we get stuck again for any reason. What’s more, it’d be even better to have a “Save as-is” option to write the post exactly to a file without /any/ processing whatsoever /including/ charset translations & MIME separators etc. i.e. exactly as fetched from the NNTP server in its entirety. Caching (saving each post separately into the article-cache) would involve knowing how to locate the Message-ID, and you’d need to do so one message-post at a time… “Save as-is” could write the whole thread of posts in chained order for cases that need to feed them into third-party (external to pan2) utils, say for ex. yet another new encoding scheme that replaces yEnc/uuencode/MIME/etc. (p.s. I’m using this post to test typographic characters, in case it looks strange on your ends ;) ) _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
