diff README @ 248:b11f8d481f67

- revised README. - tweaked prefs.ui to adapt the description in README.

--- a/README	Fri Oct 24 12:59:09 2008 +0900
+++ b/README	Mon Oct 27 17:52:41 2008 +0900
@@ -64,10 +64,10 @@
 4.1.2 Get/post statuses via API
 
 Since Pidgin is an instant message client, it is natural that Pidgin
-uses XMPP protocol to access to Twitter. However, Twitter has suspended
-their IM gateway for long time, for maintenance reason. So we had
-decided to provide the other way to access to Twitter using Twitter's
-public API.
+uses XMPP protocol to access to Twitter. However, Twitter has
+suspended their IM gateway for long time, for scalability issues. So
+we had decided to provide the other way to access to Twitter using
+Twitter's public API.
 
 If you enable this feature, pidgin-twitter gets your timeline and puts
 your update via Twitter API.
@@ -97,10 +97,11 @@
 This checkbox toggles translation from a sender name to the link to
 the sender.
 
-4.2.3 Translate channel name to link
+4.2.3 Translate #channel/tag to link
 
-This checkbox toggles translation from a channel name to the link to
-the channel. This feature is available only for Wassr.
+This checkbox toggles translation from channel/tag name which begins
+with '#' to respective links. This feature is available for Wassr or
+identi.ca.
 
 4.3 Filter page
 
@@ -132,14 +133,14 @@
 
 Icon size in conversations can be specified by this spin button.
 
-4.4.3 Enable update
+4.4.3 Enable icon update
 
 This checkbox toggles update for icons by the specified period. See
-below for the period.
+below for the update interval.
 
-4.4.4 Update period
+4.4.4 Update interval
 
-You can specify update period here in two ways. The first is the
+You can specify update interval here in two ways. The first is the
 number of times showing one particular icon before update. The second
 is days before update.
 
@@ -196,7 +197,7 @@
 bytes in identi.ca. If the composing message exceeds the limit, the
 displayed number will turn red to notify you the excess.
 
-4.6.2 Escape pseudo command for Twitter
+4.6.2 Escape pseudo command for twitter
 
 This checkbox toggles escape pseudo command functionality.
 
@@ -221,12 +222,22 @@
 accepted. This feature will silently discard *false* oops message in
 this situation.
 
-4.6.4 Do not notify incoming message (Windows only)
+4.6.4 Strip excessive newline characters
+
+A message from feed bot may contain excessive number of newline
+characters. It sometimes annoys messenger users by taking huge space
+in the message window.
+
+If this feature is enabled, pidgin-twitter automatically strips
+consecutive newline characters and replaces them with single newline
+character.
+
+4.6.5 Do not notify incoming message (Windows only)
 
 This checkbox toggles suppression of blinking Pidgin's task bar button
 for new incoming message when Pidgin window is not active.
 
-4.6.5 Output log message
+4.6.6 Enable log output
 
 This checkbox toggles log messages for debugging. If you have any
 trouble, we suggest to enable this feature and report us your problem
@@ -278,8 +289,9 @@
   has been added.
 - Many improvements and bug fixes.
 
-0.8.0 (October 25 2008)
+0.8.0 (October 27 2008)
 - jisko support has been added.
+- Strip excessive newline feature has been added.
 - Fixed a breakage of playing sound for the recipients.