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* gnus.texi (Pterodactyl Gnus): Added. (Newest Features): Removed. Suggested by RMS.

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* Conformity::          Gnus tries to conform to all standards.
* Emacsen::             Gnus can be run on a few modern Emacsen.
* Gnus Development::    How Gnus is developed.
* Contributors::        Oodles of people.
* New Features::        Pointers to some of the new stuff in Gnus.
* Newest Features::     Features so new that they haven't been written yet.

New Features

* ding Gnus::          New things in Gnus 5.0/5.1, the first new Gnus.
* September Gnus::     The Thing Formally Known As Gnus 5.3/5.3.
* Red Gnus::           Third time best---Gnus 5.4/5.5.
* Quassia Gnus::       Two times two is four, or Gnus 5.6/5.7.

Customization

* Slow/Expensive Connection:: You run a local Emacs and get the news elsewhere.
* Slow Terminal Connection::  You run a remote Emacs.

* Conformity::          Gnus tries to conform to all standards.
* Emacsen::             Gnus can be run on a few modern Emacsen.
* Gnus Development::    How Gnus is developed.
* Contributors::        Oodles of people.
* New Features::        Pointers to some of the new stuff in Gnus.
* Newest Features::     Features so new that they haven't been written yet.
@end menu


@node Gnus Versions
@subsection Gnus Versions

@subsection New Features
@cindex new features

@menu
* ding Gnus::          New things in Gnus 5.0/5.1, the first new Gnus.
* September Gnus::     The Thing Formally Known As Gnus 5.3/5.3.
* Red Gnus::           Third time best---Gnus 5.4/5.5.
* Quassia Gnus::       Two times two is four, or Gnus 5.6/5.7.
@end menu

These lists are, of course, just @emph{short} overviews of the
@emph{most} important new features.  No, really.  There are tons more.
Yes, we have feeping creaturism in full effect.


@node ding Gnus
@subsubsection (ding) Gnus

New features in Gnus 5.0/5.1:

@item
 Old dejanews archives can now be read by @code{nnweb}.

@end itemize


@node Newest Features
@subsection Newest Features
@cindex todo

Also known as the @dfn{todo list}.  Sure to be implemented before the
next millennium.

Be afraid.  Be very afraid.

(That a feature appears in this list doesn't necessarily mean that I've
decided to actually implement it.  It just means that I think it sounds
interesting.)

(Yes, this is the actual, up-to-the-second todo list.)

@itemize @bullet

@item
 I would like the zombie-page to contain an URL to the source of the
latest version of gnus or some explanation on where to find it.

@item
 A way to continue editing the latest Message composition.

@item
@uref{http://www.sonicnet.com/feature/ari3/}

@item
 facep is not declared.

@item
 Include a section in the manual on why the number of articles
isn't the same in the group buffer and on the SPC prompt.

@item
 Interacting with rmail fcc isn't easy.

@item
@example
 Hypermail:
<URL:http://www.falch.no/people/pepper/DSSSL-Lite/archives/>
<URL:http://www.eit.com/software/hypermail/hypermail.html>
<URL:http://homer.ncm.com/>
<URL:http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/HTML_Converters/>
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9610/index.html
<URL:http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/www/html/converters.html>
http://www.miranova.com/gnus-list/

@end example

@item
@samp{^-- } is made into - in LaTeX.

@item
 gnus-kill is much slower than it was in GNUS 4.1.3.

@item
 when expunging articles on low score, the sparse nodes keep hanging on?
@item
 starting the first time seems to hang Gnus on some systems.  Does
NEWGROUPS answer too fast?
@item
 nndir doesn't read gzipped files.
@item
 FAQ doesn't have an up node?
@item
 when moving mail from a procmail spool to the crash-box,
the crash-box is only appropriate to one specific group.
@item
 `t' `t' makes X-Faces disappear.
@item
 nnmh-be-safe means that crossposted articles will
be marked as unread.
@item
 Orphan score entries don't show on "V t" score trace
@item
 when clearing out data, the cache data should also be reset.
@item
 rewrite gnus-summary-limit-children to be non-recursive
to avoid exceeding lisp nesting on huge groups.
@item
 expunged articles are counted when computing scores.
@item
 implement gnus-batch-brew-soup
@item
 ticked articles aren't easy to read in pick mode -- `n' and
stuff just skips past them.  Read articles are the same.
@item
 topics that contain just groups with ticked
articles aren't displayed.
@item
 nndoc should always allocate unique Message-IDs.
@item
 If there are mail groups the first time you use Gnus, Gnus'll
make the mail groups killed.
@item
 no "no news is good news" when using topics.
@item
 when doing crosspost marking, the cache has to be consulted
and articles have to be removed.
@item
 nnweb should fetch complete articles when they are split into several
parts.
@item
 scoring on head immediate doesn't work.
@item
 finding short score file names takes forever.
@item
 canceling articles in foreign groups.
@item
 nntp-open-rlogin no longer works.
@item
 C-u C-x C-s (Summary) switches to the group buffer.
@item
 move nnmail-split-history out to the backends.
@item
 nnweb doesn't work properly.
@item
 using a virtual server name as `gnus-select-method' doesn't work?
@item
 when killing/yanking a group from one topic to another in a slave, the
master will yank it first to one topic and then add it to another.
Perhaps.

@item
 warn user about `=' redirection of a group in the active file?
@item
 take over the XEmacs menubar and offer a toggle between the XEmacs
bar and the Gnus bar.
@item
@example
 push active file and NOV file parsing down into C code.
`(canonize-message-id id)'
`(mail-parent-message-id references n)'
`(parse-news-nov-line &optional dependency-hashtb)'
`(parse-news-nov-region beg end &optional dependency-hashtb fullp)'
`(parse-news-active-region beg end hashtb)'

@end example

@item
 nnml .overview directory with splits.
@item
 asynchronous cache
@item
 postponed commands.
@item
 the selected article show have its Subject displayed in its summary line.
@item
 when entering groups, get the real number of unread articles from
the server?
@item
 sort after gathering threads -- make false roots have the
headers of the oldest orphan with a 0 article number?
@item
 nndoc groups should inherit the score files of their parents?  Also
inherit copy prompts and save files.
@item
 command to start up Gnus (if not running) and enter a mail mode buffer.
@item
 allow editing the group description from the group buffer
for backends that support that.
@item
gnus-hide,show-all-topics
@item
 groups and sub-topics should be allowed to mingle inside each topic,
and not just list all subtopics at the end.
@item
 a command to remove all read articles that are not needed to connect
threads -- `gnus-summary-limit-to-sparse-unread'?
@item
 a variable to turn off limiting/cutting of threads in the tree buffer.
@item
 a variable to limit how many files are uudecoded.
@item
 add zombie groups to a special "New Groups" topic.
@item
 server mode command: close/open all connections
@item
 put a file date in gnus-score-alist and check whether the file
has been changed before using it.
@item
 on exit from a digest group, go to the next article in the parent group.
@item
 hide (sub)threads with low score.
@item
 when expiring, remove all marks from expired articles.
@item
 gnus-summary-limit-to-body
@item
 a regexp alist that says what level groups are to be subscribed
on.  Eg. -- `(("nnml:" . 1))'.
@item
 easier interface to nnkiboze to create ephemeral groups that
contain groups that match a regexp.
@item
 allow newlines in <URL:> urls, but remove them before using
the URL.
@item
 If there is no From line, the mail backends should fudge one from the
"From " line.
@item
 fuzzy simplifying should strip all non-alpha-numerical info
from subject lines.
@item
 gnus-soup-brew-soup-with-high-scores.
@item
 nntp-ping-before-connect
@item
 command to check whether NOV is evil.  "list overview.fmt".
@item
 when entering a group, Gnus should look through the score
files very early for `local' atoms and set those local variables.
@item
 message annotations.
@item
 topics are always yanked before groups, and that's not good.
@item
 (set-extent-property extent 'help-echo "String to display in minibuf")
to display help in the minibuffer on buttons under XEmacs.
@item
 allow group line format spec to say how many articles there
are in the cache.
@item
 AUTHINFO GENERIC
@item
 `run-with-idle-timer' in gnus-demon.
@item
 stop using invisible text properties and start using overlays instead
@item
 C-c C-f C-e to add an Expires header.
@item
 go from one group to the next; everything is expunged; go to the
next group instead of going to the group buffer.
@item
 gnus-renumber-cache -- to renumber the cache using "low" numbers.
@item
 record topic changes in the dribble buffer.
@item
 `nnfolder-generate-active-file' should look at the folders it
finds and generate proper active ranges.
@item
 nneething-look-in-files-for-article-heads variable to control
whether nneething should sniff all files in the directories.
@item
 gnus-fetch-article -- start Gnus, enter group, display article
@item
 gnus-dont-move-articles-to-same-group variable when respooling.
@item
 when messages are crossposted between several auto-expirable groups,
articles aren't properly marked as expirable.
@item
 nneething should allow deletion/moving.
@item
 TAB on the last button should go to the first button.
@item
 if the car of an element in `mail-split-methods' is a function,
and the function returns non-nil, use that as the name of the group(s) to
save mail in.
@item
 command for listing all score files that have been applied.
@item
 a command in the article buffer to return to `summary' config.
@item
 `gnus-always-post-using-current-server' -- variable to override
`C-c C-c' when posting.
@item
 nnmail-group-spool-alist -- says where each group should use
as a spool file.
@item
 when an article is crossposted to an auto-expirable group, the article
should be marker as expirable.
@item
 article mode command/menu for "send region as URL to browser".
@item
 on errors, jump to info nodes that explain the error.  For instance,
on invalid From headers, or on error messages from the nntp server.
@item
 when gathering threads, make the article that has no "Re: " the parent.
Also consult Date headers.
@item
 a token in splits to call shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer
@item
 `1 0 A M' to do matches on the active hashtb.
@item
 duplicates -- command to remove Gnus-Warning header, use the read
Message-ID, delete the "original".
@item
 when replying to several messages at once, put the "other" message-ids
into a See-Also header.
@item
 support setext: @uref{http://www.bsdi.com/setext/}
@item
 support ProleText: @uref{http://proletext.clari.net/prole/proletext.html}
@item
 when browsing a foreign server, the groups that are already subscribed
should be listed as such and not as "K".
@item
 generate font names dynamically.
@item
 score file mode auto-alist.
@item
 allow nndoc to change/add/delete things from documents.  Implement
methods for each format for adding an article to the document.
@item
 `gnus-fetch-old-headers' `all' value to incorporate
absolutely all headers there is.
@item
 function like `|', but concatenate all marked articles
and pipe them to the process.
@item
 cache the list of killed (or active) groups in a separate file.  Update
the file whenever we read the active file or the list
of killed groups in the .eld file reaches a certain length.
@item
 function for starting to edit a file to put into
the current mail group.
@item
 score-find-trace should display the total score of the article.
@item
 "ghettozie" -- score on Xref header and nix it out after using it
to avoid marking as read in other groups it has been crossposted to.
@item
 look at procmail splitting.  The backends should create
the groups automatically if a spool file exists for that group.
@item
 function for backends to register themselves with Gnus.
@item
 when replying to several process-marked articles,
have all the From end up in Cc headers?  Variable to toggle.
@item
 command to delete a crossposted mail article from all
groups it has been mailed to.
@item
 `B c' and `B m' should be crosspost aware.
@item
 hide-pgp should also hide PGP public key blocks.
@item
 Command in the group buffer to respool process-marked groups.
@item
 `gnus-summary-find-matching' should accept
pseudo-"headers" like "body", "head" and "all"
@item
 When buttifying <URL: > things, all white space (including
newlines) should be ignored.
@item
 Process-marking all groups in a topic should process-mark
groups in subtopics as well.
@item
 Add non-native groups to the list of killed groups when killing them.
@item
 nntp-suggest-kewl-config to probe the nntp server and suggest
variable settings.
@item
 add edit and forward secondary marks.
@item
 nnml shouldn't visit its .overview files.
@item
 allow customizing sorting within gathered threads.
@item
 `B q' shouldn't select the current article.
@item
 nnmbox should support a newsgroups file for descriptions.
@item
 allow fetching mail from several pop servers.
@item
 Be able to specify whether the saving commands save the original
or the formatted article.
@item
 a command to reparent with the child process-marked (cf. `T ^'.).
@item
 I think the possibility to send a password with nntp-open-rlogin
should be a feature in Red Gnus.
@item
 The `Z n' command should be possible to execute from a mouse click.
@item
 more limiting functions -- date, etc.
@item
 be able to limit on a random header; on body; using reverse matches.
@item
 a group parameter (`absofucking-total-expiry') that will make Gnus expire
even unread articles.
@item
 a command to print the article buffer as postscript.
@item
 variable to disable password fetching when opening by nntp-open-telnet.
@item
 manual: more example servers -- nntp with rlogin, telnet
@item
 checking for bogus groups should clean topic alists as well.
@item
 canceling articles in foreign groups.
@item
 article number in folded topics isn't properly updated by
Xref handling.
@item
 Movement in the group buffer to the next unread group should go to the
next closed topic with unread messages if no group can be found.
@item
 Extensive info pages generated on the fly with help everywhere --
in the "*Gnus edit*" buffers, for instance.
@item
 Topic movement commands -- like thread movement.  Up, down, forward, next.
@item
 a way to tick/mark as read Gcc'd articles.
@item
 a way to say that all groups within a specific topic comes
from a particular server?  Hm.
@item
 `gnus-article-fill-if-long-lines' -- a function to fill
the article buffer if there are any looong lines there.
@item
 `T h' should jump to the parent topic and fold it.
@item
 a command to create an ephemeral nndoc group out of a file,
and then splitting it/moving it to some other group/backend.
@item
 a group parameter for nnkiboze groups that says that
all kibozed articles should be entered into the cache.
@item
 It should also probably be possible to delimit what
`gnus-jog-cache' does -- for instance, work on just some groups, or on
some levels, and entering just articles that have a score higher than
a certain number.
@item
 nnfolder should append to the folder instead of re-writing
the entire folder to disk when accepting new messages.
@item
 allow all backends to do the proper thing with .gz files.
@item
 a backend for reading collections of babyl files nnbabylfolder?
@item
 a command for making the native groups into foreign groups.
@item
 server mode command for clearing read marks from all groups
from a server.
@item
 when following up multiple articles, include all To, Cc, etc headers
from all articles.
@item
 a command for deciding what the total score of the current
thread is.  Also a way to highlight based on this.
@item
 command to show and edit group scores
@item
 a gnus-tree-minimize-horizontal to minimize tree buffers
horizontally.
@item
 command to generate nnml overview file for one group.
@item
 `C-u C-u a' -- prompt for many crossposted groups.
@item
 keep track of which mail groups have received new articles (in this session).
Be able to generate a report and perhaps do some marking in the group
buffer.
@item
 gnus-build-sparse-threads to a number -- build only sparse threads
that are of that length.
@item
 have nnmh respect mh's unseen sequence in .mh_profile.
@item
 cache the newsgroups descriptions locally.
@item
 asynchronous posting under nntp.
@item
 be able to control word adaptive scoring from the score files.
@item
 a variable to make `C-c C-c' post using the "current" select method.
@item
 `limit-exclude-low-scored-articles'.
@item
 if `gnus-summary-show-thread' is a number, hide threads that have
a score lower than this number.
@item
 split newsgroup subscription variable up into "order" and "method".
@item
 buttonize ange-ftp file names.
@item
 a command to make a duplicate copy of the current article
so that each copy can be edited separately.
@item
 nnweb should allow fetching from the local nntp server.
@item
 record the sorting done in the summary buffer so that
it can be repeated when limiting/regenerating the buffer.
@item
 nnml-generate-nov-databses should generate for
all nnml servers.
@item
 when the user does commands in the group buffer, check
the modification time of the .newsrc.eld file and use
ask-user-about-supersession-threat.  Also warn when trying
to save .newsrc.eld and it has changed.
@item
 M-g on a topic will display all groups with 0 articles in
the topic.
@item
 command to remove all topic stuff.
@item
 allow exploding incoming digests when reading incoming mail
and splitting the resulting digests.
@item
 nnsoup shouldn't set the `message-' variables.
@item
 command to nix out all nnoo state information.
@item
 nnmail-process-alist that calls functions if group names
matches an alist -- before saving.
@item
 use buffer-invisibility-spec everywhere for hiding text.
@item
 variable to activate each group before entering them
to get the (new) number of articles.  `gnus-activate-before-entering'.
@item
 command to fetch a Message-ID from any buffer, even
starting Gnus first if necessary.
@item
 when posting and checking whether a group exists or not, just
ask the nntp server instead of relying on the active hashtb.
@item
 buttonize the output of `C-c C-a' in an apropos-like way.
@item
 `G p' should understand process/prefix, and allow editing
of several groups at once.
@item
 command to create an ephemeral nnvirtual group that
matches some regexp(s).
@item
 nndoc should understand "Content-Type: message/rfc822" forwarded messages.
@item
 it should be possible to score "thread" on the From header.
@item
 hitting RET on a "gnus-uu-archive" pseudo article should unpack it.
@item
 `B i' should display the article at once in the summary buffer.
@item
 remove the "*" mark at once when unticking an article.
@item
 `M-s' should highlight the matching text.
@item
 when checking for duplicated mails, use Resent-Message-ID if present.
@item
 killing and yanking groups in topics should be better.  If killing one copy
of a group that exists in multiple topics, only that copy should
be removed.  Yanking should insert the copy, and yanking topics
should be possible to be interspersed with the other yankings.
@item
 command for enter a group just to read the cached articles.  A way to say
"ignore the nntp connection; just read from the cache."
@item
 `X u' should decode base64 articles.
@item
 a way to hide all "inner" cited text, leaving just the most
recently cited text.
@item
 nnvirtual should be asynchronous.
@item
 after editing an article, gnus-original-article-buffer should
be invalidated.
@item
 there should probably be a way to make Gnus not connect to the
server and just read the articles in the server
@item
 allow a `set-default' (or something) to change the default
value of nnoo variables.
@item
 a command to import group infos from a .newsrc.eld file.
@item
 groups from secondary servers have the entire select method
listed in each group info.
@item
 a command for just switching from the summary buffer to the group
buffer.
@item
 a way to specify that some incoming mail washing functions
should only be applied to some groups.
@item
 Message `C-f C-t' should ask the user whether to heed
mail-copies-to: never.
@item
 new group parameter -- `post-to-server' that says to post
using the current server.  Also a variable to do the same.
@item
 the slave dribble files should auto-save to the slave file names.
@item
 a group parameter that says what articles to display on group entry, based
on article marks.
@item
 a way to visually distinguish slave Gnusae from masters.  (Whip instead
of normal logo?)
@item
 Use DJ Bernstein "From " quoting/dequoting, where applicable.
@item
 Why is hide-citation-maybe and hide-citation different?  Also
clear up info.
@item
 group user-defined meta-parameters.



From: John Griffith <griffith@@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
@item
 I like the option for trying to retrieve the FAQ for a group and I was
thinking it would be great if for those newsgroups that had archives
you could also try to read the archive for that group.  Part of the
problem is that archives are spread all over the net, unlike FAQs.
What would be best I suppose is to find the one closest to your site.

In any case, there is a list of general news group archives at @*
@uref{ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/users/claird/news.lists/newsgroup_archives.html}




@item
@example
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@@hpc.uh.edu>
(add-hook 'gnus-select-group-hook
  (lambda ()
    (gnus-group-add-parameter group
       (cons 'gnus-group-date-last-entered (list (current-time-string))))))

(defun gnus-user-format-function-d (headers)
  "Return the date the group was last read."
  (cond ((car (gnus-group-get-parameter gnus-tmp-group 'gnus-group-date-last-entered)))
      (t "")))
@end example

@item
 tanken var at når du bruker `gnus-startup-file' som prefix (FOO) til å lete
opp en fil FOO-SERVER, FOO-SERVER.el, FOO-SERVER.eld, kan du la den være en
liste hvor du bruker hvert element i listen som FOO, istedet.  da kunne man
hatt forskjellige serveres startup-filer forskjellige steder.


@item
LMI> Well, nnbabyl could alter the group info to heed labels like
LMI> answered and read, I guess.

It could also keep them updated (the same for the Status: header of
unix mbox files).

They could be used like this:


@example
`M l <name> RET' add label <name> to current message.
`M u <name> RET' remove label <name> from current message.
`/ l <expr> RET' limit summary buffer according to <expr>.

<expr> would be a boolean expression on the labels, e.g.

`/ l bug & !fixed RET'
@end example

would show all the messages which are labeled `bug' but not labeled
`fixed'.

One could also imagine the labels being used for highlighting, or
affect the summary line format.


@item
Sender: abraham@@dina.kvl.dk

I'd like a gnus-find-file which work like find file, except that it
would recognize things that looks like messages or folders:

- If it is a directory containing numbered files, create an nndir
summary buffer.

- For other directories, create a nneething summary buffer.

- For files matching "\\`From ", create a nndoc/mbox summary.

- For files matching "\\`BABYL OPTIONS:", create a nndoc/baby summary.

- For files matching "\\`[^ \t\n]+:", create an *Article* buffer.

- For other files, just find them normally.

I'd like `nneething' to use this function, so it would work on a
directory potentially containing mboxes or babyl files.

@item
Please send a mail to bwarsaw@@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw) and
tell him what you are doing.

@item
Currently, I get prompted:

decend into sci?
- type y
decend into sci.something ?
- type n
decend into ucd?

The problem above is that since there is really only one subsection of
science, shouldn't it prompt you for only descending sci.something?  If
there was a sci.somethingelse group or section, then it should prompt
for sci? first the sci.something? then sci.somethingelse?...

@item
Ja, det burde være en måte å si slikt.  Kanskje en ny variabel?
`gnus-use-few-score-files'?  Så kunne score-regler legges til den
"mest" lokale score-fila.  F. eks. ville no-gruppene betjenes av
"no.all.SCORE", osv.

@item
What i want is for Gnus to treat any sequence or combination of the following
as a single spoiler warning and hide it all, replacing it with a "Next Page"
button:


^L's

more than n blank lines

more than m identical lines
(which should be replaced with button to show them)

any whitespace surrounding any of the above


@item
Well, we could allow a new value to `gnus-thread-ignore-subject' --
`spaces', or something.  (We could even default to that.)  And then
subjects that differ in white space only could be considered the
"same" subject for threading purposes.

@item
Modes to preprocess the contents (e.g. jka-compr) use the second form
"(REGEXP FUNCTION NON-NIL)" while ordinary modes (e.g. tex) use the first
form "(REGEXP . FUNCTION)", so you could use it to distinguish between
those two types of modes. (auto-modes-alist, insert-file-contents-literally.)

@item
 Under XEmacs -- do funny article marks:
tick - thumb tack
killed - skull
soup - bowl of soup
score below - dim light bulb
score over - bright light bulb

@item
Yes. I think the algorithm is as follows:

@example
Group-mode

   show-list-of-articles-in-group
        if (key-pressed == SPACE)
                if (no-more-articles-in-group-to-select)
                        if (articles-selected)
                                start-reading-selected-articles;
                        junk-unread-articles;
                        next-group;
                 else
                        show-next-page;

         else if (key-pressed = '.')
                if (consolidated-menus)         # same as hide-thread in Gnus
                        select-thread-under-cursor;
                else
                        select-article-under-cursor;


Article-mode
        if (key-pressed == SPACE)
                if (more-pages-in-article)
                        next-page;
                else if (more-selected-articles-to-read)
                        next-article;
                else
                        next-group;
@end example

@item
My precise need here would have been to limit files to Incoming*.
One could think of some `nneething-only-files' variable, but I guess
it would have been unacceptable if one was using many unrelated such
nneething groups.

A more useful approach would be to, in response to the `G D' prompt, be
allowed to say something like: `~/.mail/Incoming*', somewhat limiting
the top-level directory only (in case directories would be matched by
the wildcard expression).

@item
It would be nice if it also handled

        <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/>

which should correspond to `B nntp RET sunsite.auc.dk' in *Group*.


@item

  Take a look at w3-menu.el in the Emacs-W3 distribution - this works out
really well.  Each menu is 'named' by a symbol that would be on a
gnus-*-menus (where * would be whatever, but at least group, summary, and
article versions) variable.

  So for gnus-summary-menus, I would set to '(sort mark dispose ...)

  A value of '1' would just put _all_ the menus in a single 'GNUS' menu in
the main menubar.  This approach works really well for Emacs-W3 and VM.


@item
 nndoc should take care to create unique Message-IDs for all its
articles.
@item
 gnus-score-followup-article only works when you have a summary buffer
active.  Make it work when posting from the group buffer as well.
(message-sent-hook).
@item
 rewrite gnus-demon to use run-with-idle-timers.

@item
 * Enhancements to Gnus:

  Add two commands:

  * gnus-servers (gnus-start-server-buffer?)--enters Gnus and goes
    straight to the server buffer, without opening any connections to
    servers first.

  * gnus-server-read-server-newsrc--produces a buffer very similar to
    the group buffer, but with only groups from that server listed;
    quitting this buffer returns to the server buffer.

@item
 add a command to check the integrity of an nnfolder folder --
go through the article numbers and see that there are no duplicates,
and stuff.

@item
 `unsmileyfy-buffer' to undo smileification.

@item
 a command to give all relevant info on an article, including all
secondary marks.

@item
 when doing `-request-accept-article', the backends should do
the nnmail duplicate checking.

@item
 allow `message-signature-file' to be a function to return the
value of the signature file.

@item
 In addition, I would love it if I could configure message-tab so that it
could call `bbdb-complete-name' in other headers.  So, some sort of
interface like

(setq message-tab-alist
      '((message-header-regexp message-expand-group)
        ("^\\(To\\|[cC]c\\|[bB]cc\\)"  bbdb-complete-name)))

then you could run the relevant function to complete the information in
the header

@item
 cache the newsgroups file locally to avoid reloading it all the time.

@item
 a command to import a buffer into a group.

@item
 nnweb should allow fetching by Message-ID from servers.

@item
 point in the article buffer doesn't always go to the
beginning of the buffer when selecting new articles.

@item
 a command to process mark all unread articles.

@item
 `gnus-gather-threads-by-references-and-subject' -- first
do gathering by references, and then go through the dummy roots and
do more gathering by subject.

@item
 gnus-uu-mark-in-numerical-order -- process mark articles in
article numerical order.

@item
 (gnus-thread-total-score
 (gnus-id-to-thread (mail-header-id (gnus-summary-article-header))))
bind to a key.

@item
 sorting by score is wrong when using sparse threads.

@item
 a command to fetch an arbitrary article -- without having to be
in the summary buffer.

@item
 a new nncvs backend.  Each group would show an article, using
version branches as threading, checkin date as the date, etc.

@item
@uref{http://www.dejanews.com/forms/dnsetfilter_exp.html}?
This filter allows one to construct advance queries on the Dejanews
database such as specifying start and end dates, subject, author,
and/or newsgroup name.

@item
 new Date header scoring type -- older, newer

@item
 use the summary toolbar in the article buffer.

@item
 a command to fetch all articles that are less than X days old.

@item
 in pick mode, `q' should save the list of selected articles in the
group info.  The next time the group is selected, these articles
will automatically get the process mark.

@item
 Isn't it possible to (also?) allow M-^ to automatically try the
default server if it fails on the current server?  (controlled by a
user variable, (nil, t, 'ask)).

@item
 make it possible to cancel articles using the select method for the
current group.

@item
 `gnus-summary-select-article-on-entry' or something.  It'll default
to t and will select whatever article decided by `gnus-auto-select-first'.

@item
 a new variable to control which selection commands should be unselecting.
`first', `best', `next', `prev', `next-unread', `prev-unread' are
candidates.

@item
 be able to select groups that have no articles in them
to be able to post in them (using the current select method).

@item
 be able to post via DejaNews.

@item
 `x' should retain any sortings that have been performed.

@item
 allow the user to specify the precedence of the secondary marks.  Also
allow them to be displayed separately.

@item
 gnus-summary-save-in-pipe should concatenate the results from
the processes when doing a process marked pipe.

@item
 a new match type, like Followup, but which adds Thread matches on all
articles that match a certain From header.

@item
 a function that can be read from kill-emacs-query-functions to offer
saving living summary buffers.

@item
 a function for selecting a particular group which will contain
the articles listed in a list of article numbers/id's.

@item
 a battery of character translation functions to translate common
Mac, MS (etc) characters into ISO 8859-1.

@example
(defun article-fix-m$word ()
  "Fix M$Word smartquotes in an article."
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
    (let ((buffer-read-only nil))
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (while (search-forward "\221" nil t)
        (replace-match "`" t t))
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (while (search-forward "\222" nil t)
        (replace-match "'" t t))
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (while (search-forward "\223" nil t)
        (replace-match "\"" t t))
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (while (search-forward "\224" nil t)
        (replace-match "\"" t t)))))
@end example

@item
@example
 (add-hook 'gnus-exit-query-functions
 (lambda ()
   (if (and (file-exists-p nnmail-spool-file)
            (> (nnheader-file-size nnmail-spool-file) 0))
       (yes-or-no-p "New mail has arrived.  Quit Gnus anyways? ")
       (y-or-n-p "Are you sure you want to quit Gnus? "))))
@end example

@item
 allow message-default-headers to be a function.

@item
 new Date score match types -- < > = (etc) that take floating point
numbers and match on the age of the article.

@item
@example
>  > > If so, I've got one gripe: It seems that when I fire up gnus 5.2.25
>  > > under xemacs-19.14, it's creating a new frame, but is erasing the
>  > > buffer in the frame that it was called from =:-O
>
>  > Hm.  How do you start up Gnus?  From the toolbar or with
>  > `M-x gnus-other-frame'?
>
>    I normally start it up from the toolbar; at
> least that's the way I've caught it doing the
> deed before.
@end example

@item
 all commands that react to the process mark should push
the current process mark set onto the stack.

@item
 gnus-article-hide-pgp
Selv ville jeg nok ha valgt å slette den dersom teksten matcher
@example
"\\(This\s+\\)?[^ ]+ has been automatically signed by"
@end example
og det er maks hundre tegn mellom match-end og ----linja.  Men -det-
er min type heuristikk og langt fra alles.

@item
 `gnus-subscribe-sorted' -- insert new groups where they would have been
sorted to if `gnus-group-sort-function' were run.

@item
 gnus-(group,summary)-highlight should respect any `face' text props set
on the lines.

@item
 use run-with-idle-timer for gnus-demon instead of the
home-brewed stuff for better reliability.

@item
 add a way to select which NoCeM type to apply -- spam, troll, etc.

@item
 nndraft-request-group should tally auto-save files.

@item
 implement nntp-retry-on-break and nntp-command-timeout.

@item
 gnus-article-highlight-limit that says when not to highlight (long)
articles.

@item
 (nnoo-set SERVER VARIABLE VALUE)

@item
 nn*-spool-methods

@item
 interrupitng agent fetching of articles should save articles.

@item
 command to open a digest group, and copy all the articles there to the
current group.

@item
 a variable to disable article body highlights if there's more than
X characters in the body.

@item
 handle 480/381 authinfo requests separately.

@item
 include the texi/dir file in the distribution.

@item
 format spec to "tab" to a position.

@item
 Move all prompting to the new `M-n' default style.

@item
 command to display all dormant articles.

@item
 gnus-auto-select-next makeover -- list of things it should do.

@item
 a score match type that adds scores matching on From if From has replied
to something someone else has said.

@item
 Read Netscape discussion groups:
snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.communicator.unix

@item
One command to edit the original version if an article, and one to edit
the displayed version.

@item
@kbd{T v} -- make all process-marked articles the children of the
current article.

@item
Switch from initial text to the new default text mechanism.

@item
How about making it possible to expire local articles?  Will it be
possible to make various constraints on when an article can be
expired, e.g. (read), (age > 14 days), or the more interesting (read
& age > 14 days)?

@item
New limit command---limit to articles that have a certain string
in the head or body.

@item
Allow breaking lengthy @sc{nntp} commands.

@item
gnus-article-highlight-limit, to disable highlighting in big articles.

@item
Editing an article should put the article to be edited
in a special, unique buffer.

@item
A command to send a mail to the admin-address group param.

@item
A Date scoring type that will match if the article
is less than a certain number of days old.

@item
New spec: %~(tab 56) to put point on column 56

@item
Allow Gnus Agent scoring to use normal score files.

@item
Rething the Agent active file thing.  `M-g' doesn't update the active
file, for instance.

@item
With dummy roots, `^' and then selecing the first article
in any other dummy thread will make Gnus highlight the
dummy root instead of the first article.

@item
Propagate all group properties (marks, article numbers, etc) up to the
topics for displaying.

@item
`n' in the group buffer with topics should go to the next group
with unread articles, even if that group is hidden in a topic.

@item
gnus-posting-styles doesn't work in drafts.

@item
gnus-summary-limit-include-cached is slow when there are
many articles in the cache, since it regenerates big parts of the
summary buffer for each article.

@item
Implement gnus-batch-brew-soup.

@item
Group parameters and summary commands for un/subscribing to mailing
lists.

@item
Introduce nnmail-home-directory.

@item
gnus-fetch-group and friends should exit Gnus when the user
exits the group.

@item
The jingle is only played on the second invocation of Gnus.

@item
Bouncing articles should do MIME.

@item
Crossposted articles should "inherit" the % or @ mark from the other
groups it has been crossposted to, or something.  (Agent.)

@item
If point is on a group that appears multiple times in topics, and
you press `l', point will move to the first instance of the group.

@item
A spec for the group line format to display the number of
agent-downloaded articles in the group.

@item
Some nntp servers never respond when posting, so there should be a
timeout for all commands.

@item
When stading on a topic line and `t'-ing, point goes to the last line.
It should go somewhere else.

@item
I'm having trouble accessing a newsgroup with a "+" in its name with
Gnus.  There is a new newsgroup on msnews.microsoft.com named
"microsoft.public.multimedia.directx.html+time" that I'm trying to
access as
"nntp+msnews.microsoft.com:microsoft.public.multimedia.directx.html+time"
but it gives an error that it cant access the group.

Is the "+" character illegal in newsgroup names?  Is there any way in
Gnus to work around this?  (gnus 5.6.45 - XEmacs 20.4)

@item

When `#F', do:

@example
Subject: Answer to your mails 01.01.1999-01.05.1999
 --text follows this line--
Sorry I killfiled you...

Under the subject "foo", you wrote on 01.01.1999:
> bar
Under the subject "foo1", you wrote on 01.01.1999:
> bar 1
@end example

@item
Allow "orphan" scores in the Agent scoring.

@item
@example
    - Edit article's summary line. 
    - End edit
    - Sort lines in buffer by subject

    --> the old subject line appears in Summary buffer, not the one that was
    just changed to.
@end example


@item
Remove list identifiers from the subject in the summary when doing `^'
and the like.

@item
Have the Agent write out articles, one by one, as it retrieves them,
to avoid having to re-fetch them all if Emacs should crash while
fetching. 

@item
Be able to forward groups of messages as MIME digests.

@item
nnweb should include the "get whole article" article when getting articles. 

@item
When I type W W c (gnus-article-hide-citation) in the summary
buffer, the citations are revealed, but the [+] buttons don't turn
into [-] buttons.  (If I click on one of the [+] buttons, it does
turn into a [-] button.)

@item
Perhaps there should be a command to "attach" a buffer of comments to
a message?  That is, `B WHATEVER', you're popped into a buffer, write
something, end with `C-c C-c', and then the thing you've written gets
to be the child of the message you're commenting.

@item
Handle external-body parts.

@item
When renaming a group name, nnmail-split-history does not get the group
name renamed.

@item
Allow mail splitting on bodies when using advanced mail splitting.

@lisp
  (body "whatever.text")
@end lisp

@item
Be able to run `J u' from summary buffers.

@item
Solve the halting problem.

@c TODO
@end itemize

@iftex

@page

36038:1f4ba03b8ce9

* Conformity::          Gnus tries to conform to all standards.
* Emacsen::             Gnus can be run on a few modern Emacsen.
* Gnus Development::    How Gnus is developed.
* Contributors::        Oodles of people.
* New Features::        Pointers to some of the new stuff in Gnus.

New Features

* ding Gnus::          New things in Gnus 5.0/5.1, the first new Gnus.
* September Gnus::     The Thing Formally Known As Gnus 5.2/5.3.
* Red Gnus::           Third time best---Gnus 5.4/5.5.
* Quassia Gnus::       Two times two is four, or Gnus 5.6/5.7.
* Pterodactyl Gnus::   Pentad also starts with P, AKA Gnus 5.8/5.9.

Customization

* Slow/Expensive Connection:: You run a local Emacs and get the news elsewhere.
* Slow Terminal Connection::  You run a remote Emacs.

* Conformity::          Gnus tries to conform to all standards.
* Emacsen::             Gnus can be run on a few modern Emacsen.
* Gnus Development::    How Gnus is developed.
* Contributors::        Oodles of people.
* New Features::        Pointers to some of the new stuff in Gnus.
@end menu


@node Gnus Versions
@subsection Gnus Versions

@subsection New Features
@cindex new features

@menu
* ding Gnus::          New things in Gnus 5.0/5.1, the first new Gnus.
* September Gnus::     The Thing Formally Known As Gnus 5.2/5.3.
* Red Gnus::           Third time best---Gnus 5.4/5.5.
* Quassia Gnus::       Two times two is four, or Gnus 5.6/5.7.
* Pterodactyl Gnus::   Pentad also starts with P, AKA Gnus 5.8/5.9.
@end menu

These lists are, of course, just @emph{short} overviews of the
@emph{most} important new features.  No, really.  There are tons more.
Yes, we have feeping creaturism in full effect.

@node ding Gnus
@subsubsection (ding) Gnus

New features in Gnus 5.0/5.1:

@item
 Old dejanews archives can now be read by @code{nnweb}.

@end itemize

@node Pterodactyl Gnus
@subsubsection Pterodactyl Gnus

New features in Gnus 5.8:

@itemize @bullet

@item The mail-fetching functions have changed.  See the manual for the
many details.  In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.

If you used procmail like in

@lisp
(setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
(setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
(setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
(setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
@end lisp

this now has changed to 

@lisp
(setq mail-sources
      '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
		   :suffix ".in")))
@end lisp

More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
Getting Mail -> Mail Sources

@item 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.

@item Gnus has also been multilingualized.  This also affects too
many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.

@item @code{gnus-auto-select-first} can now be a function to be
called to position point.

@item The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
summary buffers and NOV files.

@item @code{gnus-article-display-hook} has been removed.  Instead, a number
of variables starting with @code{gnus-treat-} have been added.

@item The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
subtly different manner.

@item New web-based backends have been added: @code{nnslashdot}, 
@code{nnwarchive} and @code{nnultimate}.  nnweb has been revamped,
again, to keep up with ever-changing layouts.

@item Gnus can now read IMAP mail via @code{nnimap}.

@end itemize

@iftex

@page