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Merge changes made in Gnus trunk.
Reimplement nnimap, and do tweaks to the rest of the code to support that.
* gnus-int.el (gnus-finish-retrieve-group-infos)
(gnus-retrieve-group-data-early): New functions.
* gnus-range.el (gnus-range-nconcat): New function.
* gnus-start.el (gnus-get-unread-articles): Support early retrieval of
data.
(gnus-read-active-for-groups): Support finishing the early retrieval of
data.
* gnus-sum.el (gnus-summary-move-article): Pass the move-to group name
if the move is internal, so that nnimap can do fast internal moves.
* gnus.el (gnus-article-special-mark-lists): Add uid/active tuples, for
nnimap usage.
* nnimap.el: Rewritten.
* nnmail.el (nnmail-inhibit-default-split-group): New internal variable
to allow the mail splitting to not return a default group. This is
useful for nnimap, which will leave unmatched mail in the inbox.
* utf7.el (utf7-encode): Autoload.
Implement shell connection.
* nnimap.el (nnimap-open-shell-stream): New function.
(nnimap-open-connection): Use it.
Get the number of lines by using BODYSTRUCTURE.
(nnimap-transform-headers): Get the number of lines in each message.
(nnimap-retrieve-headers): Query for BODYSTRUCTURE so that we get the
number of lines.
Not all servers return UIDNEXT. Work past this problem.
Remove junk from end of file.
Fix typo in "bogus" section.
Make capabilties be case-insensitive.
Require cl when compiling.
Don't bug out if the LIST command doesn't have any parameters.
2010-09-17 Knut Anders Hatlen <kahatlen@gmail.com> (tiny change)
* nnimap.el (nnimap-get-groups): Don't bug out if the LIST command
doesn't have any parameters.
(mm-text-html-renderer): Document gnus-article-html.
2010-09-17 Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> (tiny fix)
* mm-decode.el (mm-text-html-renderer): Document gnus-article-html.
* dgnushack.el: Define netrc-credentials.
If the user doesn't have a /etc/services, supply some sensible port defaults.
Have `unseen-or-unread' select an unread unseen article first.
(nntp-open-server): Return whether the open was successful or not.
Throughout all files, replace (save-excursion (set-buffer ...)) with (with-current-buffer ... ).
Save result so that it doesn't say "failed" all the time.
Add ~/.authinfo to the default, since that's probably most useful for users.
Don't use the "finish" method when we're reading from the agent.
Add some more nnimap-relevant agent stuff to nnagent.el.
* nnimap.el (nnimap-with-process-buffer): Removed.
Revert one line that was changed by mistake in the last checkin.
(nnimap-open-connection): Don't error out when we can't make a connection
nnimap-related changes to avoid bugging out if we can't contact a server.
* gnus-start.el (gnus-get-unread-articles): Don't try to scan groups
from methods that are denied.
* nnimap.el (nnimap-possibly-change-group): Return nil if we can't log
in.
(nnimap-finish-retrieve-group-infos): Make sure we're not waiting for
nothing.
* gnus-sum.el (gnus-select-newsgroup): Indent.
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12 "We can't be arrested for it as far as I know, but it is definitely |
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20 I remember when I lost an argument. Boy did that hurt! ;-). |
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21 -- RMS |
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25 "'Cowardly' is not an adverb, although it looks like one. It is an |
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26 adjective. It makes a statement about general temperament, rather |
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27 than a specific occasion. I don't think Emacs has a general |
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28 temperament." |
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29 "Mine does." |
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30 -- RMS and Eli Zaretskii |
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35 item such as 'Edit -> Search' is activated from the menu, I was just |
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36 thinking that we could draw a big rectangle around the minibuffer, |
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37 blinking (or zooming in-and-out) until some input is typed in." |
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38 "How about dancing elephants?" |
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39 "They don't fit in my office." |
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40 "Well once the elephants are done, your office will be much... |
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41 bigger." |
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42 -- Stefan Monnier, Miles Bader and Kai Grossjohann |
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46 I remember these versions as yard-rocks (is that between inch-pebbles |
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47 and mile-stones?). |
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53 home PC, but I can at work." |
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54 "Can you try to find a workaround at work? (I guess you don't need |
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55 a homearound at home. ;-)" |
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56 -- Jason Rumney and RMS |
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65 it's easy if you try |
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66 no bytes below us |
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74 I try to uphold the ideals that I was taught to value as an American, |
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82 "Nevertheless, until now, we always did." |
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83 "So.... should we not fix old bugs?" |
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86 -- Miles Bader, Eli Zaretskii and David Kastrup |
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91 be more resource-conscious and try to avoid wasting precious bits |
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92 transferring those redundant "u"s. |
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93 Think of the number of occurrences of "color" and "behavior" in the |
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94 Emacs tarball, multiply that by the number of times it'll be |
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95 downloaded, stored on hard disks, archived, ...that's a substantial |
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96 saving. |
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104 a blues song or a pulp fiction booklet. It certainly projects drama." |
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106 "Actually, for some keymaps 'depraved' would fit better." |
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108 with Emacs using escape, meta, alt, control, and shift!" |
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113 "Aren't user-defined constants useful in other languages?" |
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114 "The only user-defined constant is ignorance. (With programmers, |
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115 this is a variable concept ;-)" |
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120 "Uh, 'archaic' and 'alive' is not a contradiction." |
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121 "Yes it is. 'Archaic' does not mean 'old' or 'early'. It means |
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122 'obsolete'." |
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123 "'He arche' in Greek means 'the beginning'. John 1 starts off with |
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124 'En arche en ho Logos': in the beginning, there was the word. Now of |
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125 course we all know that Emacs was there before Word, but this might |
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126 have escaped John's notice." |
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133 "Sorry for the long message. I wanted to make the problem clear |
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134 also for people not familiar with `woman'." |
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135 "Most hackers, I take? |
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136 For a moment there I thought you had a patch that you could put on |
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137 a woman, and it would make her come right to the topic at point |
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139 course in divination. |
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140 There'd be quite a sensational market for that, you know." |
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149 "Sorry; by 789, I mean 3262 :-P" |
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168 "What about using the 'happy face' with gnu horns?" | |
169 "It would make Emacs the object of ridicule until the end of time." | |
170 "Isn't it already?" | |
171 "It's the object of ridicule until the end of _tape_. The jury is | |
172 still out about that end of time thing." | |
173 -- Kim F. Storm, Miles Bader, RMS and David Kastrup | |
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177 "Despite being a maths graduate, I can't think of any other such | |
178 constants with anything like the universality of e and pi." | |
179 "42" | |
180 -- Alan Mackenzie and David Hansen | |
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184 "[...] So please do not delete anything." | |
185 "Done." | |
186 -- RMS and David Kastrup | |
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190 "I guess that can work in some circumstances, but it bypasses the | |
191 printer drivers. Couldn't that lead to problems for the printer | |
192 drivers?" | |
193 "Current research is that software does not suffer feelings of | |
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