raoul wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:08:42 -0600, SkeeBall wrote:
>
>> When I respond to a multi-line post with just one or two lines Pan goes
>> into a race condition and for all intents and purposes locks up on me. I
>> think it's doing this because it's unable to launch the warning about
>> "most of the message is quoted text" or whatever it is. There are some
>> groups that this is the norm though and isn't considered rude, otherwise
>> I wouldn't do it.
>>
>> So, if anyone has time to test this you can do so by posting something
>> like this: http://www.lipsum.com/ - the default 5 paragraphs is plenty -
>> to a test group then follow it up with a one or two line response. The
>> first message goes fine for me the second will not.
>>
>> Thanks in advance if anyone gives it a go.
>
> I did the test as requested and Pan hangs every time I try to send the
> message. I have to go to a console and do "killall pan".
>
> I've noticed this often before but hadn't identified the conditions.
>
> I also have a problem doing an initial post if I don't intentionally wrap
> the text using the little page-wrap icon on the icon bar of the
> compose-message window.
>
> Any fixes would be greatly appreciated. I like Pan, but I don't think I
> can put up with this very often.

Thanks for confirming this. I've filed a bug report and hopefully the Pan
developers can figure out what's happening. This started a month or two ago
for me and Pan hasn't changed in that time so I believe that the problem is
with an updated library.

I hadn't noticed the problem with the wrapping but if my hypothesis that the
problem occurs when Pan tries to launch a warning dialog is correct then
this would make sense - I _think_ Pan warns when posting long lines, KNode
does.

Thanks again, it's good to know that it's not something wrong with my
system .