On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:21:47 +0000, SciFi wrote: > On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:06:17 +0000, walt wrote: >> ...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'. >> >> Charles, was there a request for that third combined option? I'm >> curious to know why someone would need it. > 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.
As long as I'm making demands on poor Charles: for similar reasons I'd like to be able to display the 'Uncooked' post with the Ctrl-U command as implemented in the mozilla family of programs. > 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. +1 from me. (Sorry to be piling on, Charles, but I like the idea :o) > (p.s. I’m using this post to test typographic characters, in case it > looks strange on your ends ;) ) Just FYI, the open-quote chars you are using are rendered correctly in Thunderbird, but are instead rendered as close-quote chars in pan. I'd welcome any blows from the clue-stick about this difference ;o) _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
