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Re: [Pan-users] Wishlist
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Toby Inkster |
Subject: |
Re: [Pan-users] Wishlist |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Apr 2002 19:12:40 +0100 |
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:31:42 -0400 (EDT)
gaw zay <address@hidden> wrote:
GZ> > It would be nice if there was a user-definable pipes menu. For
GZ> > example, I could define an entry "rot 13" by `tr "[a-z]" "[n-za-m]"`
GZ> > and "gpg sign" by `gpg --clearsign`.
GZ>
GZ> already have rot13 built-in. But I see the usefulness of this kinda
GZ> feature. Although! You can use vi or whatever as you editor and do
GZ> stuff like that anyway.
The rot 13 was just intended as an example. Yes, I know that Pan already has it
on the menu. But by allowing outside agents to do the work, Pan would be much
more extensible.
Another example. Type in a file name, highlight it, then choose "attach
uuencoded" from the pipes menu and the message contains the file specified as
an attachments,
GZ> Unix is safer, don't need to advertise your exact kernel to people.
GZ> try grep -r Unix * in the pan source for a quick fix if you want to do
GZ> this btw :-)
Well, maybe the exact kernel version is a security issue, but a minor one. At
least saying "Linux" or "FreeBSD" would be good though.
GZ> not a bad idea. of course then there will be that day you want to grab
GZ> a binary and will have to recompile ;-)
Obviously you only compile out the binary features if you *really* don't need
them. For instance, my news server filters out all binary posts, so I have no
need for binary features in my news reader.
I am mulling over the idea of branching the Pan 1.0 source to create "Pan (Text
Only)" -- PANTO for short.
If you occasionally need to decode a binary there are command-line ttols for
that.
--
Toby A Inkster, Esq. ~ http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/
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In a Belgrade hotel elevator: To move the cabin, push button for
wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one
should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going
alphabetically by national order.
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