NEWS

   1 SEMI NEWS --- history of major-changes.
   2 Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3 \f
   4 * Changes in SEMI 1.2
   5
   6 ** User setting
   7
   8 *** hooks
   9
  10   'mime-view-plain-text-preview-hook was renamed to
  11 'mime-preview-text/plain-hook.
  12
  13
  14 ** API
  15
  16 *** Interface for body-filter
  17
  18   'mime-view-filter-for-* was renamed to 'mime-preview-filter-for-*.
  19
  20
  21 *** mime-text-decode-body
  22
  23   Function 'mime-decode-text-body was renamed to
  24 'mime-text-decode-body and changed interface.  New interface is
  25 following:
  26
  27         mime-text-decode-body (SITUATION)
  28
  29 SITUATION is preview-situation.  Content-Transfer-Encoding and
  30 MIME-charset are specified in field of it.
  31
  32 \f
  33 * Changes in SEMI 1.1
  34
  35 ** User setting
  36
  37 *** Setting variable about visible body
  38
  39   'mime-view-visible-media-type-list and
  40 'mime-view-content-filter-alist were abolished.  Please use
  41 'mime-preview-condition instead.
  42
  43   Notice that 'mime-preview-condition is not list of
  44 media-type/subtype string nor association-list.  It uses new
  45 data-structure `ctree' (condition-tree; it is introduced to replace
  46 `atype').  Function 'ctree-set-calist-strictly and
  47 'ctree-set-calist-with-default may be useful to modify it (`calist'
  48 (condition-alist) is as same as `atype').
  49
  50
  51 *** API about visible-predicates
  52
  53   Interface of visible-predicates for entity elements were changed.
  54 New interfaces are following:
  55
  56     mime-view-entity-button-visible-p (entity message-info)
  57
  58     mime-view-header-visible-p (entity message-info)
  59
  60     mime-view-body-visible-p (entity message-info)
  61
  62     mime-view-entity-separator-visible-p (entity message-info)
  63
  64
  65 ** API
  66
  67 *** entity representation
  68
  69   Structure 'mime-entity-info was renamed to 'mime-entity.  So various
  70 functions were renamed too.
  71
  72
  73 *** Interface for entity-button generators
  74
  75   Interface of entity-button generators was changed.  New interfaces
  76 is following:
  77
  78     mime-view-insert-entity-button (entity message-info subject)
  79
  80
  81 *** mime-preview-condition and preview-situation
  82
  83   Conditions about preview generation are unified to
  84 'mime-preview-condition.  Namely other variables, such as
  85 'mime-view-visible-media-type-list, 'mime-view-content-filter-alist,
  86 'mime-view-image-converter-alist were abolished.
  87
  88   Preview-situation is generated from entity information, running
  89 environment and 'mime-preview-condition.  These elements are checked
  90 to match with each other. (it is similar to acting-situation)
  91
  92   Format of preview-situation is association-list.  Following key is
  93 pre-defined:
  94
  95         'type                     media-type
  96         'subtype                  media-subtype
  97         'encoding                 content-transfer-encoding
  98         'major-mode               major-mode of MUA
  99         <STRING>                  attribute of Content-Type field.
 100         'body-presentation-method body-presentation-method
 101
 102 If 'body-presentation-method is 'with-filter, 'body-filter is used to
 103 specify body-filter function.  If 'body-presentation-method is
 104 function, it is called to generate presentation of entity body.
 105
 106 Body-filter function 'mime-view-filter-for-image refers 'image-format.
 107
 108 Setting for message/partial button is specified by
 109 'mime-preview-condition instead of hard-coding.
 110
 111
 112 *** Interface for body-filter
 113
 114   Interface of body-filter was changed.  New interfaces is following:
 115
 116     <body-filter> (situation)
 117
 118 Current pre-defined filters are following:
 119
 120         mime-view-filter-for-text/plain (situation)
 121         mime-view-filter-for-text/richtext (situation)
 122         mime-view-filter-for-text/enriched (situation)
 123         mime-view-filter-for-image (situation) ; if available
 124
 125 'mime-view-filter-for-application/postscript was abolished.
 126
 127
 128 *** Format of mime-acting-condition (acting-situation)
 129
 130   Format of `mime-acting-condition' were changed.  `type' and
 131 `subtype' are separated and changed to symbol.
 132
 133
 134 *** Renaming
 135
 136 - mime-view-buffer -> mime-preview-buffer
 137
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 139 Local variables:
 140 mode: outline
 141 paragraph-separate: "[  \f]*$"
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