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Re: Ping DaveG - pan 0.140

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On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 20:47:11 +0100, mick wrote:

> On 26/08/2016 12:35:28, DaveG wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 02:06:39 +0100, mick wrote:
>>
>>> On 26/08/2016 01:51:53, DaveG wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 19:02:49 +0000, mick wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 18:23:36 +0000, DaveG wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:38:52 +0000, mick wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Dave, a small problem you may recall from awhile ago that I never
>>>>>>> resolved was the extra carraige returns in the signature ver
>>>>>>> 0.139.
>>>>>>> I am still experiencing it in the updated 0.140.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The bug was reported back in 2008
>>>>>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554178
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I notice that your signature has always been three lines from any
>>>>>>> quoted text instead of the five that I suffer from.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> In your Pan's posting profile what signature TYPE do you use?
>>>>>>> I have tried text and text file but they make no difference.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> There has been a lot of fixes in the latest release but not the
>>>>>>> one I wanted and I have not noticed anything else that has changed
>>>>>>> or made a difference.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Pan 0.140, sig type text file.
>>>>> 
>>>>> thanks, same here, text file.
>>>>> must be mint that is causing the problem, was the same in 17.3 KDE,
>>>>> now using Cinnamon 18.
>>>> 
>>>> FWIW your thread starter had 4 blank lines before the sig and this
>>>> one I'm replying to had only 3
>>> 
>>> Ah, that's because the first post was a Text signature and the second
>>> post was a Text File signature.  I'll stick with the signature done in
>>> a text file as that does not look so bad. Thanks for the feedback.
>>
>> I wonder if the text signature displays an extra blank line because you
>> put an LF at the end of the text you typed in?
> 
> Misunderstood with my first reply at 19.14.
> No, I am not putting an extra line feed at the end of my typed text.
> When I open follow up to newsgroup there is a blank line below the other
> persons quoted text, then a blinking cursor ready for me to start typing
> my reply on the second line, then three blank lines below the cursor,
> then the two dashes and then the signature, that's five blank lines
> between the last line of quoted text and the two dashes.  If I use the
> 'text' signature instead of the text file signature that produces six
> blank lines between the other persons quoted text and the two dashes
> before I ever start typing.
> Using MesNews this time which looks right.

'tis odd and no idea why yours should be different to mine.  Maybe it's 
not Pan but a library dependency?  Have you asked in the Pan mailing list?

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Ping DaveG - pan 0.140 mick <no.spam@junk.mail> - 2016-08-24 00:38 +0000
  Re: Ping DaveG - pan 0.140 DaveG <nospam@nospam.net> - 2016-08-24 18:23 +0000
    Re: Ping DaveG - pan 0.140 mick <no.spam@junk.mail> - 2016-08-24 19:02 +0000
      Re: Ping DaveG - pan 0.140 DaveG <nospam@nospam.net> - 2016-08-26 00:51 +0000
        Re: Ping DaveG - pan 0.140 mick <nospam@junk.mail> - 2016-08-26 02:06 +0100
          Re: Ping DaveG - pan 0.140 DaveG <nospam@nospam.net> - 2016-08-26 11:35 +0000
            Re: Ping DaveG - pan 0.140 mick <no.spam@junk.mail> - 2016-08-26 18:14 +0000
            Re: Ping DaveG - pan 0.140 mick <nospam@junk.mail> - 2016-08-26 20:47 +0100
              Re: Ping DaveG - pan 0.140 DaveG <nospam@nospam.net> - 2016-08-27 09:00 +0000
                Re: Ping DaveG - pan 0.140 mick <no.spam@junk.mail> - 2016-08-27 14:23 +0000
                Re: Ping DaveG - pan 0.140 mick <no.spam@junk.mail> - 2016-08-28 15:43 +0000
                Re: Ping DaveG - pan 0.140 DaveG <nospam@nospam.net> - 2016-08-28 22:04 +0000
                Re: Ping DaveG - pan 0.140 mick <nospam@junk.mail> - 2016-08-29 01:50 +0100

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