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On Sat, 2016-08-27 at 19:17 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> 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.)
My mistake, 0.139 with KDE and 0.140 with Cinnamon, I manually updated
Pan for Cinnamon.
> >
> > 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.
OK, fair enough, I can delete the surplus lines, If I remember before
clicking send
I was asking the above because another poster uses FreeBSD and does not
experience this issue, he has what I would consider the norm, blank
line, cursor, signature.
Thanks for your explanation.
--
mick
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