Rui Maciel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:36:58 +0100:
> Some Pan users are multilingual and subscribe to newsgroups that differ > in the adopted language. To that class of users, the ability to spell > check posts in multiple languages is extremely useful. Unfortunately > that is a feature that Pan doesn't offer. > > It would be great if Pan enabled it's users to spell check posts in > multiple languages. If it was possible to specify the language for each > individual newsgroups then it would be awesome. > > How about it? What are your thoughts on this feature? AFAIK, pan checks an environmental variable to see which language to spellcheck in. If I'm not mistaken, that's the way GTK+ handles it, and pan is of course a GTK+ app. I'm English-only so don't worry about it or remember the details, but try LANG. That means that you can set it per pan session, but unfortunately, not per group or per post. There has been the request a number of times over the years, but AFAIK Charles wasn't really enthused about going against whatever norm it was he was following (again, GTK+ I think, but may be wrong on that). One thing you CAN do, however, is setup a starter script that sets the variable appropriately, then launches pan. Set up multiple scripts if you'd like, one for each language. In fact, pan (new-pan anyway, 0.132 current, I don't believe old-pan, 0.14.x, supported this) checks the PAN_HOME environmental variable for its config and data location, too, so it's possible to setup multiple instances, each with its own configuration and data. Here, I have three independent configs, text, binary, and test, but you can setup your configs as desired. By combining this with the LANG thing, you can subscribe only to groups in the appropriate language for that pan instance. Once you have multiple instances setup, there's nothing stopping you from running more than one at once, if desired. Of course, if you have them pointed at the same servers, if you run them together, you'll have to configure the number of connections for each instance so they don't exceed your total allowed connections for each server, but other than that, they shouldn't interfere with each other, provided you are pointing them at separate config dirs using the PAN_HOME variable. -- 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
