[Pan-users] Re: Saving post

[Duncan]

Glenn <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:01:47
-0600:

> On older versions of pan, I use to be able to save a thread by hitting
> shift-s where without intervention, it would save the posting to a file.
> On the latest version I have, 0.132, it comes up with a dialog box
> asking where I want to save it, if I want to save text, attachment or
> both and priority. Is there anyway to do a shift-s and save as text
> without the dialog box popping up each time?

This feature hasn't yet been added back in after the pan rewrite, but it 
has certainly been requested, as having to deal with that dialog all the 
time gets frustrating.

I don't save-text all that often, so I don't personally mind it for that, 
but for binaries and save-attachments, I've found a couple things that 
help.  (Luckily, it also remembers your selection so after the first time 
if no changes you should be able to simply hit enter and it'll save with 
the same options as last time.)

First, you can set a global default save dir by directly editing 
preferences.xml (in your pan data dir, ~/.pan2 by default), and override 
that with a per-group default set in group properties.  Again, the dialog 
memory helps here too, so set it once and it should remain the same, at 
least as long as you don't switch groups.

Second, it's possible to multi-select and invoke the save dialog just 
once for the whole selection.  This can be a VERY big hassle saver when 
saving off a couple hundred posts at once.

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