[Pan-users] Re: Does "Mark selected groups read" mark by possession or by time?

[Duncan]

PsiStormYamato <address@hidden>
posted address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Fri, 19 Dec 2008
22:08:05 -0500:

> Duncan wrote:
>> The alternative I use instead is to select-all-articles, then mark
>> selected as read.
> It's too bad that ctrl+D and M are on opposing sides of the keyboard,
> but ctrl+D and 1 context menu is fast enough for me.

The hotkeys are remappable, you know...  When pan starts it loads it's 
keyboard accel mapping from accels.txt, if it exists.  When it exits, it 
dumps them there.

There's a togglable GTK function (I forgot what it is now, it's 
Googlable... with references pointing to this list, IIRC) that allows 
hovering over a menu entry and typing a key combo to remap it to that 
function (or hit delete to delete the current mapping), but I've not used 
that in years.

Instead, I copied the accels.txt file and edited it to create a mapping 
scheme that made sense to me, as well as reordering the (otherwise 
scrambled) entries into menu order so I could find them.  When I want to 
change the mapping, I make the changes to that file, then with pan 
closed, copy it back over the active accels.txt file.  (For individual 
remappings, you can simply edit it in place, using your text editor's 
find function to find the pan function you want to remap.  However, pan 
re-scrambles the file every time it saves it, so if you want to reorder 
it and/or make more than a handful of changes, making the changes in a 
copy and then copying it back over the original is the way to go.

In the file, a leading semicolon on a line indicates a comment; blank 
lines are ignored, and the default accels are all commented out, so 
everything will be commented when you first look at the file.

If you'd like, I can post my pre-sorted version.  You can either use my 
scheme or simply use my sorting as a starting point to your own scheme.  
(In my scheme, a=article, t=thread, g=group, unmodified X (where X is one 
of a,t,g) is next X, alt-X is next unread X, shift-X is previous X, etc.  
f=followup and some similar accels remain the same, m=mark-read, shift-
m=mark-unread, and three-mod (ctrl-alt-shift-X) opens a dialog or window, 
l=log-viewer, t=task-manager, n=news-server, p=posting-profile, etc.)  
Hey, it seemed more logical and made more sense to me! =:^)

> Thanks for the thorough explanation.

Not a problem!  I've a bit of a reputation for such loonnngg but deep 
explanations.  =:^)

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