changeset 36038:1f4ba03b8ce9

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

--- a/man/ChangeLog	Sun Feb 11 17:07:35 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/ChangeLog	Sun Feb 11 17:56:04 2001 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
[phone]  ShengHuo ZHU  <[e-mail]>
+
+	* gnus.texi (Pterodactyl Gnus): Added.
+	(Newest Features): Removed. Suggested by RMS.
+
 2001-02-10  Eli Zaretskii  <[e-mail]>
 
 	* ack.texi (Acknowledgments): Make up-to-date for Emacs 21.  Add

--- a/man/gnus.texi	Sun Feb 11 17:07:35 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/gnus.texi	Sun Feb 11 17:56:04 2001 +0000
@@ -816,14 +816,14 @@
 * 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.
+* 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
 
@@ -18856,7 +18856,6 @@
 * 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
 
 
@@ -19449,16 +19448,16 @@
 
 @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.
+* 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
 
@@ -20098,1313 +20097,60 @@
 
 @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.)
+@node Pterodactyl Gnus
+@subsubsection Pterodactyl Gnus
+
+New features in Gnus 5.8:
 
 @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
+@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
 
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