X-Git-Url: http://git.chise.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=GNUS-NEWS;h=057a7f61dcf3a7d5e1dfd71834bedb4cf157bef6;hb=24d084465f4b469b96556727481811c054f57b32;hp=a2ca24f14529f8508a1468e4529edfc7fa6294df;hpb=93fd3c5fd9f215515162b7016beb25d30d10104b;p=elisp%2Fgnus.git- diff --git a/GNUS-NEWS b/GNUS-NEWS index a2ca24f..057a7f6 100644 --- a/GNUS-NEWS +++ b/GNUS-NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,54 @@ ** Gnus changes. +The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in +four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment, +internationalization and mail-fetching. + +*** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the +many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone. + +If you used procmail like in + +(setq nnmail-use-procmail t) +(setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail) +(setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/") +(setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in") + +this now has changed to + +(setq mail-sources + '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/" + :suffix ".in"))) + +More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods -> +Getting Mail -> Mail Sources + +*** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of +Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details. + +*** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too +many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables. + *** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be called to position point. +*** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in +summary buffers and NOV files. + +*** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number +of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added. + +*** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a +subtly different manner. + +*** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive +and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with +ever-changing layouts. + +*** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap. + + +Local variables: +mode: outline +paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" +end: