1 The files in this directory are not (yet) part of the Gnus distribution proper.
2 They may later become part of the distribution, or they may disappear
5 Please note that it is NOT good to just add this directory to `load-path': a
6 number of files in this directory will become part of more recent Emacs
7 versions, so that you might be running obsolete libraries with all kinds of ill
8 effects (cf. `list-load-path-shadows').
10 The suggested method for installation is to copy those files that you need to a
11 directory which is in `load-path'.
13 Here is an overview of the files:
17 Provides the ELisp-based uncompface program. It is excellent and
18 practical (actually you can replace lisp/compface.el with it), however
19 the author is missing and the copyright has not been assigned yet.
23 This file defines the command to search mails and persistent articles
24 with Namazu, which is a full-text search engine distributed at
25 <http://namazu.org>, and to browse its results with Gnus.
29 Convert kill files to score files. See (info "(gnus)Converting Kill
35 Obsoleted by PGG and EasyPG.
42 Copies of the corresponding files from the Emacs lisp/mail/ directory,
43 to provide features (occasionally) needed by Gnus which may not be
44 provided by the versions of these files in older Emacs distributions
45 (Emacs < 22). XEmacs users should NOT use this, since it doesn't work.
46 See the XEmacs mail-lib module instead.
50 Obsolete interface to OpenSSL. Completely replaced by `lisp/tls.el',
51 which supports both GnuTLS and OpenSSL. This file will be removed
56 This file provides improved Unicode functionality. It defines
57 functions `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode' and
58 `unify-8859-on-decoding-mode' which unify the Latin-N charsets.
59 Without `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode', composing a Latin-9 reply to a
60 Latin-1 posting, say, will produce a multipart posting (a Latin-1 part
61 and a Latin-9 part), or perhaps UTF-8. With
62 `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode', the outgoing posting can be all Latin-1
63 or all Latin-9 in most cases.
65 It is harmless to turn on `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode', but
66 `unify-8859-on-decoding-mode' may unexpectedly change files in
67 certain situations. (If the file contains different Latin-N
68 charsets which should not be unified.)
70 This is part of Emacs 21.3 and later, which also turns on
71 `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode' by default.
77 This is used for parsing RSS feeds. Part of Emacs 21.3 and later.
78 Note that the version of this file in the Gnus contrib/ directory is
79 out of date with respect to the version in the Emacs tree, so don't use
80 this file unless using Emacs < 21.3.