X-Git-Url: http://git.chise.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=GNUS-NEWS;h=ae36555822be33ae39f4ccb2615acbdab34585ef;hb=3304290c446e3fd89151ebe599b3c0cea8522329;hp=71e58c70ba578f6cf14f3c1d44fb6f9efa98d777;hpb=62481deea3de1c5767a2afcadaabc36281828cc7;p=elisp%2Fgnus.git- diff --git a/GNUS-NEWS b/GNUS-NEWS index 71e58c7..ae36555 100644 --- a/GNUS-NEWS +++ b/GNUS-NEWS @@ -1,100 +1,33 @@ ** Gnus changes. -*** The Gnus distribution no longer bundles Custom and Widget. -If your Emacs doesn't come with these libraries, fetch them from -. You also then need to -add the following to the lisp/dgnushack.el file: +The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in +four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment, +internationalization and mail-fetching. - (push "~/lisp/custom" load-path) +*** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the +many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone. -Modify to suit your needs. +*** 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. -*** New functionality for using Gnus as an offline newsreader has been -added. A plethora of new commands and modes have been added. See the -Gnus manual for the full story. +*** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too +many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables. -*** The nndraft backend has returned, but works differently than -before. All Message buffers are now also articles in the nndraft -group, which is created automatically. +*** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be +called to position point. -*** `gnus-alter-header-function' can now be used to alter header -values. +*** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in +summary buffers and NOV files. -*** `gnus-summary-goto-article' now accept Message-ID's. +*** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number +of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added. -*** A new Message command for deleting text in the body of a message -outside the region: `C-c C-v'. +*** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a +subtly different manner. -*** You can now post to component group in nnvirtual groups with -`C-u C-c C-c'. +*** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive +and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with +ever-changing layouts. -*** `nntp-rlogin-program' -- new variable to ease customization. +*** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap. -*** `C-u C-c C-c' in `gnus-article-edit-mode' will now inhibit -re-highlighting of the article buffer. - -*** New element in `gnus-boring-article-headers' -- `long-to'. - -*** `M-i' symbolic prefix command. See the section "Symbolic -Prefixes" in the Gnus manual for details. - -*** `L' and `I' in the summary buffer now take the symbolic prefix -`a' to add the score rule to the "all.SCORE" file. - -*** `gnus-simplify-subject-functions' variable to allow greater -control over simplification. - -*** `A T' -- new command for fetching the current thread. - -*** `/ T' -- new command for including the current thread in the -limit. - -*** `M-RET' is a new Message command for breaking cited text. - -*** \\1-expressions are now valid in `nnmail-split-methods'. - -*** The `custom-face-lookup' function has been removed. -If you used this function in your initialization files, you must -rewrite them to use `face-spec-set' instead. - -*** Cancelling now uses the current select method. Symbolic prefix -`a' forces normal posting method. - -*** New command to translate M******** sm*rtq**t*s into proper text --- `W d'. - -*** For easier debugging of nntp, you can set `nntp-record-commands' -to a non-nil value. - -*** nntp now uses ~/.authinfo, a .netrc-like file, for controlling -where and how to send AUTHINFO to NNTP servers. - -*** A command for editing group parameters from the summary buffer -has been added. - -*** A history of where mails have been split is available. - -*** A new article date command has been added -- `article-date-iso8601'. - -*** Subjects can be simplified when threading by setting -`gnus-score-thread-simplify'. - -*** A new function for citing in Message has been added -- -`message-cite-original-without-signature'. - -*** `article-strip-all-blank-lines' -- new article command. - -*** A new Message command to kill to the end of the article has -been added. - -*** A minimum adaptive score can be specified by using the -`gnus-adaptive-word-minimum' variable. - -*** The "lapsed date" article header can be kept continually -updated by the `gnus-start-date-timer' command. - -*** Web listserv archives can be read with the nnlistserv backend. - -*** Old dejanews archives can now be read by nnweb. - -*** Byte-compilation of user-specs now works under XEmacs.