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14 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or |
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15 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no |
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17 Manual'', and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the |
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23 developing GNU and promoting software freedom.'' |
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27 separately from the collection, you can do so by adding a copy of the |
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28 license to the document, as described in section 6 of the license. |
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41 @c Obviously this is only a very rudimentary draft. We put it in CVS |
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47 This manual describes @dots{} |
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50 * Gnus Maintainance Guide:: Gnus Maintainance Guide |
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60 for Gnus and used intensively for Gnus. But many of those libraries are |
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61 useful on their own. E.g. other Emacs Lisp packages might use the |
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71 @c As of 2005-10-21... |
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75 Functions for formatting arbitrary formatting strings. |
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80 Functions to encode/decode hexadecimal string. |
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81 @c As of 2007-08-25... |
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94 Read passwords from user, possibly using a password cache. |
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118 Domain Name System dig interface. |
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138 @acronym{IMAP} library. |
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140 There are no Gnus dependencies in this file. |
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143 Functions for parsing RFC822bis headers. |
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145 There are no Gnus dependencies in this file. |
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149 arbitrarily mixed Chinese and @acronym{ASCII} characters. |
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153 minor dependencies: @code{gnus-newsgroup-name} could be eliminated by |
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154 using an optional argument to @code{rfc1843-decode-article-body}. |
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157 Functions for decoding rfc2045 headers |
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159 There are no Gnus dependencies in these files. |
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162 Functions for encoding and decoding rfc2047 messages |
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164 There are no Gnus dependencies in these files. |
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171 There are no Gnus dependencies in these files. |
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174 Functions for decoding rfc2231 headers |
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176 There are no Gnus dependencies in these files. |
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179 Interpret RFC2646 "flowed" text. |
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180 @c As of 2005-10-27... |
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181 There are no Gnus dependencies in this file. |
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184 Elisp native uudecode. |
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186 There are no Gnus dependencies in this file. |
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187 @c ... but the custom group is gnus-extract. |
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191 @c Cf. draft-ietf-usefor-cancel-lock-01.txt |
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193 @c major news providers (e.g. news.individual.org) started to use it. |
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195 There are no Gnus dependencies in these files. |
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201 All message composition from Gnus (both mail and news) takes place in |
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202 Message mode buffers. Message mode is intended to be a replacement for |
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203 Emacs mail mode. There should be no Gnus dependencies in |
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204 @file{message.el}. Alas it is not anymore. Patches and suggestions to |
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211 The files @file{mml*.el} and @file{mm-*.el} provide @acronym{MIME} |
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276 In the past, the inclusion of Gnus into Emacs was quite cumbersome. For |
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277 each change made to Gnus in Emacs repository, it had to be checked that |
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282 gateway to ensure the bug fixes from Emacs CVS are propagated to Gnus |
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285 cause all common files in Emacs and Gnus v5-10 to be identical except |
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291 @c (typically so far the only exception has been that the changes |
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293 Because of this, when the next major version of Gnus will be included in |
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307 change such a file in the v5-10 branch, and it should propagate to Emacs |
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359 @file{texi} directory and commit @file{GNUS-NEWS} and |
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377 @c End: |
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379 @ignore |
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381 @end ignore |