[Pan-users] Re: setting PAN_HOME *does* work; moving doesnt

[Duncan]

Michel Doodeman <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on 
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:37:02 +0100:

> If Pan has been configured and its settings are stored to ~/.pan2 and
> you then export PAN_HOME to e.g. ~/.pan300 and start pan, all groups
> disappeared. Both 'subscribed' and 'other'. If I refresh the grouplist I
> can see the newsgroups I once was subscribed to, displayed again. In
> bold, under the 'other groups'. When I exit, again all groups
> disappeared from the list. I assume this shouldnt happen.

I think Beso missed the significance of what you said...

No, if you've exported PAN_HOME pointing at other than the default 
~/.pan2, and where you pointed it is empty, pan should NOT know anything 
about your old subscriptions, including NOT being able to BOLD them 
because it shouldn't know anything about the other location at all -- 
it's being pointed at a new one.

However, someone earlier posted a comment to the effect that a few of the 
paths in pan are still hard-coded -- they don't obey PAN_HOME.  
Apparently, the subscribed groups list does obey PAN_HOME, thus, no 
subscribed groups when you're pointing PAN_HOME at an empty location, but 
the generic all-group list remains hard-coded and looks at the old 
location, regardless, and BOLDs those groups that have xref message 
sequence numbers attached (these are in the group list, IIRC).  If that's 
correct (and I've not tested it myself to be sure yet), that's a bug, and 
if there's not yet one filed on it, there should be.

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