Re: [Pan-users] large # of lines asks to save

[Duncan]

Bruce Bowler posted on Mon, 30 Jun 2014 18:58:43 +0000 as excerpted:

> One group that I participate in has folks who, on occasion, post files
> that are 8000 lines or longer.  Invariably, these are screenshots or
> other graphics.  Rather than displaying them, pan asks me if I want to
> save them.  I don't, I want to display them in pan (shorter sceenshots
> do display OK, so I know pan can do it).
> 
> Is there a preference (hidden or otherwise) to change this behaviour?

What's going on here is that the post, with attachments, was long enough 
that the author's client split it into multiple individual messages and 
sent it that way.  A traditional client would display the individual 
messages along with the [1/25] or whatever in the subject.

Pan displays single-message posts normally, both in the header pane/tab 
and in the body pane/tab, but it processes these split messages 
differently.  In the header pane it displays only one entry and (if the 
post is complete) hiding the usual bit of the subject line that indicates 
the full post is composed of multiple individual messages.  But before it 
displays the body pane, it'll ask, since it has to do some combining (and 
downloading if you've not downloaded it yet) to do so.

If you don't want to save it, however, try the manual read article 
function, in the articles menu as well as the specific post context menu 
(when context-clicking in the header pane).  That generally displays the 
message here, without saving it.

I don't believe that dialog can be turned off (except possibly by pre-
caching the messages, it's been awhile since I saw such a message and I 
can't remember whether pre-cached messages popup that menu or not), but 
the manual read-message function should work as long as it isn't too 
frequent in your groups.

If it's a frequent occurrence, consider assigning a hotkey to the manual-
read function.

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