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Revision: miles@gnu.org--gnu-2005/emacs--cvs-trunk--0--patch-220 Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 Patches applied: * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 45-52) - Update from CVS - Update from CVS: texi Makefile.in CVS keyw cruft - Update from CVS: ChangeLog tweaks 2005-03-29 Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de> * etc/gnus-refcard.tex, etc/gnus-logo.eps: New files. 2005-03-25 Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> * lisp/gnus/message.el (message-resend): Bind rfc2047-encode-encoded-words. * lisp/gnus/mm-util.el (mm-replace-in-string): New function. (mm-xemacs-find-mime-charset-1): Ignore errors while loading latin-unity, which cannot be used with XEmacs 21.1. * lisp/gnus/rfc2047.el (rfc2047-encode-function-alist): Rename from rfc2047-encoding-function-alist in order to avoid conflicting with the old version. (rfc2047-encode-message-header): Remove useless goto-char. (rfc2047-encodable-p): Don't move point. (rfc2047-syntax-table): Treat `(' and `)' as is. (rfc2047-encode-region): Concatenate words containing non-ASCII characters in structured fields; don't encode space-delimited ASCII words even in unstructured fields; don't break words at char-category boundaries; encode encoded words in structured fields; treat text within parentheses as special; show the original text when error has occurred; move point to the end of the region after encoding, suggested by IRIE Tetsuya <irie@t.email.ne.jp>; treat backslash-quoted characters as non-special; check carefully whether to encode special characters; fix some kind of misconfigured headers; signal a real error if debug-on-quit or debug-on-error is non-nil; don't infloop, suggested by Hiroshi Fujishima <pooh@nature.tsukuba.ac.jp>; assume the close parenthesis may be included in the encoded word; encode bogus delimiters. (rfc2047-encode-string): Use mm-with-multibyte-buffer. (rfc2047-encode-max-chars): New variable. (rfc2047-encode-1): New function. (rfc2047-encode): Use it; encode text so that it occupies the maximum width within 76-column; work correctly on Q encoding for iso-2022-* charsets; fold the line before encoding; don't append a space if the encoded word includes close parenthesis. (rfc2047-fold-region): Use existing whitespace for LWSP; make it sure not to break a line just after the header name. (rfc2047-b-encode-region): Remove. (rfc2047-b-encode-string): New function. (rfc2047-q-encode-region): Remove. (rfc2047-q-encode-string): New function. (rfc2047-encode-parameter): New function. (rfc2047-encoded-word-regexp): Don't use shy group. (rfc2047-decode-region): Follow rfc2047-encoded-word-regexp change. (rfc2047-parse-and-decode): Ditto. (rfc2047-decode): Treat the ascii coding-system as raw-text by default. 2005-03-25 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> * lisp/gnus/rfc2047.el (rfc2047-encode-encoded-words): New variable. (rfc2047-field-value): Strip props. (rfc2047-encode-message-header): Disabled header folding -- not all headers can be folded, and this should be done by the message composition mode. Probably. I think. (rfc2047-encodable-p): Say that =? needs encoding. (rfc2047-encode-region): Encode =? strings. 2005-03-25 Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> * lisp/gnus/rfc2047.el (rfc2047-encoded-word-regexp): Support RFC 2231 language tags; remove unnecessary '+'. Reported by Stefan Wiens <s.wi@gmx.net>. (rfc2047-decode-string): Don't cons a string unnecessarily. (rfc2047-parse-and-decode, rfc2047-decode): Use a character for the encoding to avoid consing a string. (rfc2047-decode): Use mm-subst-char-in-string instead of mm-replace-chars-in-string. 2005-03-25 TSUCHIYA Masatoshi <tsuchiya@namazu.org> * lisp/gnus/rfc2047.el (rfc2047-encode): Use uppercase letters to specify encodings of MIME-encoded words, in order to improve interoperability with several broken MUAs. 2005-03-21 Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de> * lisp/gnus/gnus-srvr.el (gnus-browse-select-group): Add NUMBER argument and pass it to `gnus-browse-read-group'. (gnus-browse-read-group): Add NUMBER argument and pass it to `gnus-group-read-ephemeral-group'. * lisp/gnus/gnus-group.el (gnus-group-read-ephemeral-group): Add NUMBER argument and pass it to `gnus-group-read-group'. 2005-03-19 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> * lisp/gnus/mm-util.el (mm-xemacs-find-mime-charset): Only call mm-xemacs-find-mime-charset-1 if we have the mule feature available at runtime. 2005-03-25 Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> * man/emacs-mime.texi (Display Customization): Markup fixes. (rfc2047): Update. 2005-03-23 Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de> * man/gnus-faq.texi: Replaced with auto-generated version.
author Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
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1 Emacs for Windows NT/2000 and Windows 95/98/ME
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3 Copyright (c) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4 See the end of the INSTALL file in this directory for copying permissions.
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6 This directory contains support for compiling and running GNU Emacs on
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7 Windows NT, Windows 95, and their successors. This port supports all
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8 of the major functionality of the Unix version, including
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10 frames, etc.), and networking support.
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12 Precompiled distributions are also available; ftp to
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16 for the latest precompiled distributions.
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20 See the INSTALL file in this directory for detailed instructions on
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21 building and installing Emacs on your system.
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25 There is a web page that serves as a FAQ for the Windows port of
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26 Emacs (a.k.a. NTEmacs) at:
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30 There is also a mailing list for discussing issues related to this
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35 To ask questions on the mailing list, send email to
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36 help-emacs-windows@gnu.org. (You don't need to subscribe for that.)
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68 95 or 98 including service pack level if known). If the bug is
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