mick posted on Sat, 27 Aug 2016 15:20:25 +0100 as excerpted: > Signature problem with Pan 0.13.9/Linux Mint KDE 17.3 and Pan 0.14/Linux > Mint Cinnamon 18 using a signature saved as a text file.
FWIW that's weird version numbering. Presumably Mint or its upstream distros Ubuntu or Debian change the upstream pan version numbers for some reason, and the given 0.13.9 and 0.14 refer to upstream pan 0.139 and 0.140, with 0.140 being current release, I think. (I'm running live-git pan and have lost track of the current release, but my live-git, which I last updated on Aug 13, reports 0.141 and the git commit, as shown in my headers since I follow the list as a newsgroup with pan.) > When I open follow up to a newsgroup post there is a blank line below > the other persons quoted text, then a blinking cursor ready for me to > start typing my reply on the second line, then three blank lines below > the cursor, then the two dashes and then the signature, that's five > lines between the last line of quoted text and the two dashes. If I use > the 'text' signature instead of a 'text file' signature that produces > six blank lines between the other persons quoted text and the two dashes > before I ever start typing. > This does not seem normal. Posts I see from other Pan users have only > one blank line between their last line of text and the two dashes. When > making new posts there are four blank lines between the top of the page > and the two dashes. At least in my case, that's because I tend to manually add/delete lines as necessary to leave a single blank line above the signature. (On short posts it'll be manual delete as there's too many blank lines, but on longer posts I guess I often arrow down instead of hitting enter twice to start a new paragraph, so I often end up manually adding lines to keep the signature as, effectively, the last paragraph.) IOW, that's a long term if minor bug that has been there as long as I can remember. In fact, I /think/ I remember the old C-based pan, 0.14.x era (upstream 0.14.x), before the C++ rewrite that was introduced with 0.90, behaving similarly. I suppose most long-term users have gotten as used to it as I have, and simply add/delete lines manually without hardly thinking of it any longer, just as I do. But if someone wishes to create a patch to fix it, say making it three blank lines with the cursor on the second, ready to type in the reply, I imagine it'd be taken pretty fast, and I imagine that'd be a reasonably easy patch, likely easy enough I could do it myself if it bothered me enough, and I don't make any claims at being a coder, certainly not C++, tho I did have a pascal course in college, 30-some years ago. But as I said half the time I'd probably end up manually fixing up the sig separation anyway, so it's too minor to bother patching, here. -- 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 https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
