1 ;; Also know as the "wish list". Some are done. For the others, no
2 ;; promise when to be implemented.
4 * Support for zipped folders for all backends this makes sense for.
5 Most likely using jka-compr. (It has been suggested that this do
6 work but I think it should be verified for all backends.)
8 * Support for RFC2015, PGP-MIME. Probably has to involve the people in
13 * Agent (Can someone write some subtopics here? I don't use it myself
14 so I don't know what is lacking.)
16 * Support for encrypted folders. Even if the mail arrives unencrypted
17 Gnus should be able to encrypt the *folder* for added safety. This
18 should go for both Gnus' own folders and the folders Gnus reads from
19 (e.g. /var/spool/mail/${USER}). All backends this makes sense for.
21 * The stuff on "Newest Features" in the manual should be implemented
22 and the node updated (it maybe is?).
24 * Splitting .newsrc.eld so the history is in one file and the
25 configuration is in another. To help those that reads at two
26 locations (e.g. work and home) and want to have the same
29 * gnus-uu-decode should complain if one or more parts of a series post
30 (ie, "part N of X") is missing, and optionally tick what parts are
31 there for decoding in a later session.
33 * Additional article marking, and an ability to affect marks placed
34 during e.g. mail acquisition. I want to be able to notice the
35 subject "fast money" or "web traffic", automatically mark it with a
36 `$', and score it into oblivion. (But I fear that wanting to change
37 marks with mail-source-* and nnmail-* functions will represent a
38 philosophical conflict with the rest of Gnus' management of article
39 marks. mail-source-* and nnmail-* currently hack around with files
40 under ~/Mail and leave traces in ~/Mail/active, but don't affect
41 things stored in .newsrc.eld.)
43 * A much better interface to nnmail-split-methods. I don't know how
44 I'd like this done, but I know that the current method of manually
45 hacking regexps is pretty untenable for new users. My boss, who is
46 tenured faculty at CMU and CEO & CTO at JPRC, and whose research
47 work has involved Lisp for the last 25 years, is trying to implant
48 himself in a Gnus mail environment, and this is a big sticking point
51 * PGP-supported encryption of entire nnml & nnmh groups. There are
52 people with whom I exchange mail routinely who don't send w/PGP, but
53 I'd really rather that the content not be left lying around
54 unencrypted. Hook into article acquisition the way jka-compr
55 supposedly does, to auto-decrypt every message read.
57 * Baby's First Mail In Gnus. Some set of functions that the
58 new-to-mail-in-Gnus user can invoke which will query the user
59 appropriately for the basic information required to establish mail
60 handling, leaving the appropriate traces in .gnus. Perhaps a
61 customize buffer would be appropriate.
62 - Where does your mail come from?
63 - If some server, what is your POP/IMAP protocol identity?
64 - What is your identity when sending mail, as opposed to posting to
66 - Here are some basic concepts of mail groups (list a few:
67 personal mail, company-wide mail, mailing lists, garbage dumps,
68 receptacles for outbound copies of what one sends; which ones do
69 you want to instantiate, and what mail should land in each?
70 [/viz./ problem of nnmail-split-methods interface.]
72 * Full integration of nnir into Gnus. Generic hooks for adding new
73 external nnir sources. I use a couple experimental, in-house tools
74 (JPRC is a research lab, occupied with document analysis and machine
75 learning) and adding new search engines to nnir by hacking the main
76 nnir.el module is rather clunky.
78 * Manual ordering of articles in an nnml folder.
80 That is, keystrokes to move articles (or whole threads) up or down
81 in the *Summary* buffer relative to the other articles. The order
82 would be persistent (e.g., across gnus sessions).
84 With this ability, an nnml folder would make for a good to-do list.
86 * Since many uses Gnus to store to do lists I think it is time for an
87 nntodo. (I know Kai already written one, maybe use that for a start?)
89 * nnsql backend, which would allow messages or folders to be imported
90 in a local (My|Postgre|?)SQL RDBMS.
92 * "posting profiles" ideally accessible from a popup menu; allowing
93 choice between predefined profiles of
94 from,name,organization,etc. Example: I'm at home, but need to reply
95 to a work mail; i can hit 'R', then use this command to switch to my
96 'work' profile for purposes of this one reply. (This might already
97 be possible with current Gnus, but I don't think so.)
99 * Better handling of the mail retrieving / splitting feature:
100 - the variables <backend>-get-new-mail should not exist anymore. Mail
101 retrieving should be a separate matter.
102 - we should be able to split mails to groups AND backends at the same time.
103 - meanwhile, we should still be able to associate certain mail sources with
106 * A better interface to the agent download scoring rules, like the one
107 for the other scoring rules.
109 * Editing of messages in the agents cache.
111 * More article marks (like '!' or '?').
112 Maybe user defined marks that can be displayed as any choosen charakter,
113 so one could do things like limiting on, to do whatever one likes with
116 * A possibility to add notes to messages. If thouse could include links
117 to other (stored) messages this would be very practical.
119 * A nnfolder like backend with .overview files.
120 This would not only speed up things, but also allow nnir to work on it.
124 * Allow article editing in groups which do not support it, but
125 emulating it via deleting the old article and entering the new one
126 into the group. This would be very useful to support `T ^' (say) in
129 * Allow user to specify which kinds of groups should be displayed.
130 For example, I want to display all the groups that are displayed
131 now, plus those which have cached messages in them. (Gnus does
132 display those with ticked messages but not those with
133 cached-but-unticked ones.) This would become even more important
134 when we allow labels.
136 * Go through the todo list and remove items already done.
138 * Create new data type `article identifier' and use that instead of
139 article numbers. A first implementation could offer something like
140 (num . 4711) but this could be extended. This would be useful for
141 using servers with *really* large numbers -- there we could have a
142 bignum type. It might also be useful for the nnweb and nnultimate
143 thingies where article identifiers are not really numbers.
145 * Allow use of digests to keep related articles. Normally, you use
146 groups to group together articles which are thematically related.
147 But sometimes, you have so many themes that this becomes
148 impractical. WIBNI I could have digests in a group, and there was a
149 way to add a new article to one of the digests in that group?
151 Or maybe what I really want is a way to tell Gnus that a specific
152 thread should always be hidden (as in `T h') by default, while most
153 other threads are not hidden by default. Hm.
155 * New backend between nnfolder and nnml: have more than one article
156 per file, but more than one file per group. With .overview files.
158 [done. nnfolder has .overview. Backward- and forward-compatible
159 between 1.0 and 2.0. (setq nnfolder-nov-is-evil t) disables the
162 * .overview files for nnfolder?
166 * New backend nnbabylfolder. There is also nnbabyl which is like
167 nnmbox but uses babyl format, but there is no babyl format
168 equivalent of nnfolder.
170 * Make movement commands in summary buffer independent of `move after
171 mark' behavior when marking articles. Currently, if you don't want
172 `E' to move to the next unread article, you have to set
173 gnus-summary-goto-unread to nil, and then there is no way to move to
174 the next or previous unread article.
176 This one has two sub-tasks. Providing the commands is one thing,
177 finding out useful key bindings for them is another. I think we
178 could provide the commands first while not changing the behavior of
179 the key bindings; then different people can experiment with
180 different key binding schemes until we find something which suits
183 * `Move to next/previous/first article' is a misnomer, since ticked
184 articles are also unread but not moved to by these commands. Should
185 the terminology be fixed or the documentation, or what?
187 * Allow sorting of threads by newest article rather than by root of
188 thread. Consider the following thread structure:
195 These two threads are sorted this way because root1 is older than
196 root2. I want an option to sort them the other way round because
197 leaf1 is newer than leaf2.
199 * Improve editing of MIME messages. I would like to use html-mode to
200 edit the body of a text/html message, and enriched-mode for
201 text/enriched messages, and so on. This should go for multipart
202 messages as well. This is probably a hard one since Emacs currently
203 does not allow several major modes per buffer. But maybe it would
204 be nice to hack Emacs to provide this infrastructure so that Gnus
205 can make use of it? This would also make it possible to provide
206 nifty commands for editing the headers, for example, rather than
207 relying on commands which do the same thing everywhere.
208 message-x.el is really just a half-assed attempt at doing it, and
209 while it is useful, that's not the way it should be done.
211 I think Francisco Potort
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\e(B already did something like this?
213 * Provide commands for editing MML tags. For example, there could be
214 a command mml-add-tag-attribute which prompts me for an attribute
215 name (with completion, from the set filename, type, ...), and then
216 for a value. (This is like `C-c +' in psgml.) Or there could be a
217 command which showed me all the attributes in an MML tag and allows
218 me to use TAB to move between them, and then to edit each attribute
219 value. (This is like `C-c C-a' in psgml.)
221 * Have Gnus automagically set group parameters for mailing list
222 groups. For example, if I have a splitting rule that automatically
223 sorts ding@gnus.org into mail.ding, then Gnus should clue in, set
224 the to-list parameter to 'ding@gnus.org', and set total-expire.
225 (This is probably Hard (TM). And of course the user should be able
226 to configure what parameters exactly get set.)
228 * Along the same lines, automagically detect broken reply-to's. (But
229 don't auto-detect users legitimately setting a reply-to header that
230 points back to the list.)
232 * Make it easier to change parameters on a set of groups,
233 e.g. set/clear gcc-self on process-marked groups.
235 * Make it easier/possible to migrate between primary select-methods,
236 if that concept is going to be kept. Right now I have only one
237 group on my primary server, and I'd kind of like to change from nntp
238 to nnml, but apparently this doesn't work well.
240 * Make it possible to refer to uniquely-named groups without
241 select-method prefix (e.g. mail.misc instead of nnml:mail.misc).
243 * Allow a user-defined picons directory for personal groups.
245 * Annotations as discussed last autumn. Be able to make comments to
246 articles for all bakends. The comments amybe should go into a
247 seperate "backend", like nndraft.
249 * Catchup on a topic and all its subtopics. I.e. do "c y" when on a
250 topic line in *Group*.
252 * Better/more advanced subject washing in *Summary*, see my
253 js-gnus-simplify-subject-function I posted earlier this winter.
255 ;; From Newest Features node. Some are not done.
257 * I would like the zombie-page to contain an URL to the source of the
258 latest version of gnus or some explanation on where to find it.
260 * A way to continue editing the latest Message composition.
262 * http://www.sonicnet.com/feature/ari3/
266 * facep is not declared.
268 * Include a section in the manual on why the number of articles isn't
269 the same in the group buffer and on the SPC prompt.
271 * Interacting with rmail fcc isn't easy.
274 [N/A]<URL:http://www.falch.no/people/pepper/DSSSL-Lite/archives/>
275 [N/A]<URL:http://www.eit.com/software/hypermail/hypermail.html>
276 [N/A]<URL:http://homer.ncm.com/>
277 [N/A]<URL:http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/HTML_Converters/>
278 http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9610/index.html
279 [N/A]<URL:http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/www/html/converters.html>
280 [N/A]http://www.miranova.com/gnus-list/
284 * `^-- ' is made into - in LaTeX.
286 * gnus-kill is much slower than it was in GNUS 4.1.3.
288 * when expunging articles on low score, the sparse nodes keep
291 * starting the first time seems to hang Gnus on some systems. Does
292 NEWGROUPS answer too fast?
294 * nndir doesn't read gzipped files.
296 * FAQ doesn't have an up node?
298 * when moving mail from a procmail spool to the crash-box, the
299 crash-box is only appropriate to one specific group.
301 * `t' `t' makes X-Faces disappear.
303 * nnmh-be-safe means that crossposted articles will be marked as
306 * Orphan score entries don't show on "V t" score trace
308 * when clearing out data, the cache data should also be reset.
310 * rewrite gnus-summary-limit-children to be non-recursive to avoid
311 exceeding lisp nesting on huge groups.
313 * expunged articles are counted when computing scores.
315 * implement gnus-batch-brew-soup
317 * ticked articles aren't easy to read in pick mode - `n' and stuff
318 just skips past them. Read articles are the same.
320 * topics that contain just groups with ticked articles aren't
323 * nndoc should always allocate unique Message-IDs.
325 * If there are mail groups the first time you use Gnus, Gnus'll
326 make the mail groups killed.
328 * no "no news is good news" when using topics.
330 * when doing crosspost marking, the cache has to be consulted and
331 articles have to be removed.
333 * nnweb should fetch complete articles when they are split into
336 * scoring on head immediate doesn't work.
338 * finding short score file names takes forever.
340 * canceling articles in foreign groups.
342 * nntp-open-rlogin no longer works.
344 * C-u C-x C-s (Summary) switches to the group buffer.
346 * move nnmail-split-history out to the backends.
348 * nnweb doesn't work properly.
350 * using a virtual server name as `gnus-select-method' doesn't work?
352 * when killing/yanking a group from one topic to another in a
353 slave, the master will yank it first to one topic and then add it
356 * warn user about `=' redirection of a group in the active file?
358 * take over the XEmacs menubar and offer a toggle between the XEmacs
359 bar and the Gnus bar.
361 * push active file and NOV file parsing down into C code.
362 `(canonize-message-id id)'
363 `(mail-parent-message-id references n)'
364 `(parse-news-nov-line &optional dependency-hashtb)'
365 `(parse-news-nov-region beg end &optional dependency-hashtb fullp)'
366 `(parse-news-active-region beg end hashtb)'
368 * nnml .overview directory with splits.
372 * postponed commands.
374 * the selected article show have its Subject displayed in its
377 * when entering groups, get the real number of unread articles from
380 * sort after gathering threads - make false roots have the headers
381 of the oldest orphan with a 0 article number?
383 * nndoc groups should inherit the score files of their parents?
384 Also inherit copy prompts and save files.
386 * command to start up Gnus (if not running) and enter a mail mode
389 * allow editing the group description from the group buffer for
390 backends that support that.
392 * gnus-hide,show-all-topics
394 * groups and sub-topics should be allowed to mingle inside each
395 topic, and not just list all subtopics at the end.
397 * a command to remove all read articles that are not needed to
398 connect threads - `gnus-summary-limit-to-sparse-unread'?
400 * a variable to turn off limiting/cutting of threads in the tree
403 * a variable to limit how many files are uudecoded.
405 * add zombie groups to a special "New Groups" topic.
407 * server mode command: close/open all connections
409 * put a file date in gnus-score-alist and check whether the file
410 has been changed before using it.
412 * on exit from a digest group, go to the next article in the parent
415 * hide (sub)threads with low score.
417 * when expiring, remove all marks from expired articles.
419 * gnus-summary-limit-to-body
421 * a regexp alist that says what level groups are to be subscribed
422 on. Eg. - `(("nnml:" . 1))'.
424 * easier interface to nnkiboze to create ephemeral groups that
425 contain groups that match a regexp.
427 * allow newlines in <URL:> urls, but remove them before using the
430 * If there is no From line, the mail backends should fudge one from
433 * fuzzy simplifying should strip all non-alpha-numerical info from
436 * gnus-soup-brew-soup-with-high-scores.
438 * nntp-ping-before-connect
440 * command to check whether NOV is evil. "list overview.fmt".
442 * when entering a group, Gnus should look through the score files
443 very early for `local' atoms and set those local variables.
445 * message annotations.
447 * topics are always yanked before groups, and that's not good.
449 * (set-extent-property extent 'help-echo "String to display in
450 minibuf") to display help in the minibuffer on buttons under
453 * allow group line format spec to say how many articles there are
458 * `run-with-idle-timer' in gnus-demon.
460 * stop using invisible text properties and start using overlays
463 * C-c C-f C-e to add an Expires header.
465 * go from one group to the next; everything is expunged; go to the
466 next group instead of going to the group buffer.
468 * gnus-renumber-cache - to renumber the cache using "low" numbers.
470 * record topic changes in the dribble buffer.
472 * `nnfolder-generate-active-file' should look at the folders it
473 finds and generate proper active ranges.
475 * nneething-look-in-files-for-article-heads variable to control
476 whether nneething should sniff all files in the directories.
478 * gnus-fetch-article - start Gnus, enter group, display article
480 * gnus-dont-move-articles-to-same-group variable when respooling.
482 * when messages are crossposted between several auto-expirable
483 groups, articles aren't properly marked as expirable.
485 * nneething should allow deletion/moving.
487 * TAB on the last button should go to the first button.
489 * if the car of an element in `mail-split-methods' is a function,
490 and the function returns non-nil, use that as the name of the
491 group(s) to save mail in.
493 * command for listing all score files that have been applied.
495 * a command in the article buffer to return to `summary' config.
497 * `gnus-always-post-using-current-server' - variable to override
498 `C-c C-c' when posting.
500 * nnmail-group-spool-alist - says where each group should use as a
503 * when an article is crossposted to an auto-expirable group, the
504 article should be marker as expirable.
506 * article mode command/menu for "send region as URL to browser".
508 * on errors, jump to info nodes that explain the error. For
509 instance, on invalid From headers, or on error messages from the
512 * when gathering threads, make the article that has no "Re: " the
513 parent. Also consult Date headers.
515 * a token in splits to call shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer
517 * `1 0 A M' to do matches on the active hashtb.
519 * duplicates - command to remove Gnus-Warning header, use the read
520 Message-ID, delete the "original".
522 * when replying to several messages at once, put the "other"
523 message-ids into a See-Also header.
525 * support setext: URL:http://www.bsdi.com/setext/
528 <URL:http://proletext.clari.net/prole/proletext.html>
530 * when browsing a foreign server, the groups that are already
531 subscribed should be listed as such and not as "K".
535 * generate font names dynamically.
537 * score file mode auto-alist.
539 * allow nndoc to change/add/delete things from documents. Implement
540 methods for each format for adding an article to the document.
542 * `gnus-fetch-old-headers' `all' value to incorporate absolutely
543 all headers there is.
545 * function like `|', but concatenate all marked articles and pipe
548 * cache the list of killed (or active) groups in a separate file.
549 Update the file whenever we read the active file or the list of
550 killed groups in the .eld file reaches a certain length.
552 * function for starting to edit a file to put into the current mail
555 * score-find-trace should display the total score of the article.
557 * "ghettozie" - score on Xref header and nix it out after using it
558 to avoid marking as read in other groups it has been crossposted
561 * look at procmail splitting. The backends should create the
562 groups automatically if a spool file exists for that group.
564 * function for backends to register themselves with Gnus.
566 * when replying to several process-marked articles, have all the
567 From end up in Cc headers? Variable to toggle.
569 * command to delete a crossposted mail article from all groups it
572 * `B c' and `B m' should be crosspost aware.
574 * hide-pgp should also hide PGP public key blocks.
576 * Command in the group buffer to respool process-marked groups.
578 * `gnus-summary-find-matching' should accept pseudo-"headers" like
579 "body", "head" and "all"
581 * When buttifying <URL: > things, all white space (including
582 newlines) should be ignored.
584 * Process-marking all groups in a topic should process-mark groups
585 in subtopics as well.
587 * Add non-native groups to the list of killed groups when killing
590 * nntp-suggest-kewl-config to probe the nntp server and suggest
593 * add edit and forward secondary marks.
595 * nnml shouldn't visit its .overview files.
597 * allow customizing sorting within gathered threads.
599 * `B q' shouldn't select the current article.
601 * nnmbox should support a newsgroups file for descriptions.
603 * allow fetching mail from several pop servers.
607 * Be able to specify whether the saving commands save the original
608 or the formatted article.
610 * a command to reparent with the child process-marked (cf. `T ^'.).
612 * I think the possibility to send a password with nntp-open-rlogin
613 should be a feature in Red Gnus.
615 * The `Z n' command should be possible to execute from a mouse
618 * more limiting functions - date, etc.
620 * be able to limit on a random header; on body; using reverse
623 * a group parameter (`absofucking-total-expiry') that will make
624 Gnus expire even unread articles.
626 * a command to print the article buffer as postscript.
628 * variable to disable password fetching when opening by
631 * manual: more example servers - nntp with rlogin, telnet
633 * checking for bogus groups should clean topic alists as well.
635 * canceling articles in foreign groups.
637 * article number in folded topics isn't properly updated by Xref
640 * Movement in the group buffer to the next unread group should go
641 to the next closed topic with unread messages if no group can be
644 * Extensive info pages generated on the fly with help everywhere -
645 in the "*Gnus edit*" buffers, for instance.
647 * Topic movement commands - like thread movement. Up, down,
650 * a way to tick/mark as read Gcc'd articles.
652 * a way to say that all groups within a specific topic comes from a
653 particular server? Hm.
655 * `gnus-article-fill-if-long-lines' - a function to fill the
656 article buffer if there are any looong lines there.
658 * `T h' should jump to the parent topic and fold it.
660 * a command to create an ephemeral nndoc group out of a file, and
661 then splitting it/moving it to some other group/backend.
663 * a group parameter for nnkiboze groups that says that all kibozed
664 articles should be entered into the cache.
666 * It should also probably be possible to delimit what
667 `gnus-jog-cache' does - for instance, work on just some groups, or
668 on some levels, and entering just articles that have a score
669 higher than a certain number.
671 * nnfolder should append to the folder instead of re-writing the
672 entire folder to disk when accepting new messages.
674 * allow all backends to do the proper thing with .gz files.
676 * a backend for reading collections of babyl files nnbabylfolder?
678 * a command for making the native groups into foreign groups.
680 * server mode command for clearing read marks from all groups from
683 * when following up multiple articles, include all To, Cc, etc
684 headers from all articles.
686 * a command for deciding what the total score of the current thread
687 is. Also a way to highlight based on this.
689 * command to show and edit group scores
691 * a gnus-tree-minimize-horizontal to minimize tree buffers
694 * command to generate nnml overview file for one group.
696 * `C-u C-u a' - prompt for many crossposted groups.
698 * keep track of which mail groups have received new articles (in
699 this session). Be able to generate a report and perhaps do some
700 marking in the group buffer.
702 * gnus-build-sparse-threads to a number - build only sparse threads
703 that are of that length.
705 * have nnmh respect mh's unseen sequence in .mh_profile.
707 * cache the newsgroups descriptions locally.
709 * asynchronous posting under nntp.
711 * be able to control word adaptive scoring from the score files.
713 * a variable to make `C-c C-c' post using the "current" select
716 * `limit-exclude-low-scored-articles'.
718 * if `gnus-summary-show-thread' is a number, hide threads that have
719 a score lower than this number.
721 * split newsgroup subscription variable up into "order" and
724 * buttonize ange-ftp file names.
726 * a command to make a duplicate copy of the current article so that
727 each copy can be edited separately.
729 * nnweb should allow fetching from the local nntp server.
731 * record the sorting done in the summary buffer so that it can be
732 repeated when limiting/regenerating the buffer.
734 * nnml-generate-nov-databses should generate for all nnml servers.
736 * when the user does commands in the group buffer, check the
737 modification time of the .newsrc.eld file and use
738 ask-user-about-supersession-threat. Also warn when trying to save
739 .newsrc.eld and it has changed.
741 * M-g on a topic will display all groups with 0 articles in the
744 * command to remove all topic stuff.
746 * allow exploding incoming digests when reading incoming mail and
747 splitting the resulting digests.
749 * nnsoup shouldn't set the `message-' variables.
751 * command to nix out all nnoo state information.
753 * nnmail-process-alist that calls functions if group names matches
754 an alist - before saving.
756 * use buffer-invisibility-spec everywhere for hiding text.
758 * variable to activate each group before entering them to get the
759 (new) number of articles. `gnus-activate-before-entering'.
761 * command to fetch a Message-ID from any buffer, even starting Gnus
764 * when posting and checking whether a group exists or not, just ask
765 the nntp server instead of relying on the active hashtb.
767 * buttonize the output of `C-c C-a' in an apropos-like way.
769 * `G p' should understand process/prefix, and allow editing of
770 several groups at once.
772 * command to create an ephemeral nnvirtual group that matches some
775 * nndoc should understand "Content-Type: message/rfc822" forwarded
780 * it should be possible to score "thread" on the From header.
782 * hitting RET on a "gnus-uu-archive" pseudo article should unpack
785 * `B i' should display the article at once in the summary buffer.
787 * remove the "*" mark at once when unticking an article.
789 * `M-s' should highlight the matching text.
791 * when checking for duplicated mails, use Resent-Message-ID if
794 * killing and yanking groups in topics should be better. If
795 killing one copy of a group that exists in multiple topics, only
796 that copy should be removed. Yanking should insert the copy, and
797 yanking topics should be possible to be interspersed with the
800 * command for enter a group just to read the cached articles. A
801 way to say "ignore the nntp connection; just read from the cache."
803 * `X u' should decode base64 articles.
807 * a way to hide all "inner" cited text, leaving just the most
810 * nnvirtual should be asynchronous.
812 * after editing an article, gnus-original-article-buffer should be
815 * there should probably be a way to make Gnus not connect to the
816 server and just read the articles in the server
818 * allow a `set-default' (or something) to change the default value
821 * a command to import group infos from a .newsrc.eld file.
823 * groups from secondary servers have the entire select method
824 listed in each group info.
826 * a command for just switching from the summary buffer to the group
829 * a way to specify that some incoming mail washing functions should
830 only be applied to some groups.
832 * Message `C-f C-t' should ask the user whether to heed
833 mail-copies-to: never.
835 * new group parameter - `post-to-server' that says to post using
836 the current server. Also a variable to do the same.
838 * the slave dribble files should auto-save to the slave file names.
840 * a group parameter that says what articles to display on group
841 entry, based on article marks.
843 * a way to visually distinguish slave Gnusae from masters. (Whip
844 instead of normal logo?)
846 * Use DJ Bernstein "From " quoting/dequoting, where applicable.
848 * Why is hide-citation-maybe and hide-citation different? Also
851 * group user-defined meta-parameters.
853 From: John Griffith <griffith@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
855 * I like the option for trying to retrieve the FAQ for a group and
856 I was thinking it would be great if for those newsgroups that had
857 archives you could also try to read the archive for that group.
858 Part of the problem is that archives are spread all over the net,
859 unlike FAQs. What would be best I suppose is to find the one
860 closest to your site.
862 In any case, there is a list of general news group archives at
863 ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/users/claird/news.lists/newsgroup_archives.html
865 * From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu>
866 (add-hook 'gnus-select-group-hook
868 (gnus-group-add-parameter group
869 (cons 'gnus-group-date-last-entered (list (current-time-string))))))
871 (defun gnus-user-format-function-d (headers)
872 "Return the date the group was last read."
873 (cond ((car (gnus-group-get-parameter gnus-tmp-group 'gnus-group-date-last-entered)))
876 * tanken var at n
\e,Ae
\e(Br du bruker `gnus-startup-file' som prefix (FOO)
877 til
\e,Ae
\e(B lete opp en fil FOO-SERVER, FOO-SERVER.el, FOO-SERVER.eld,
878 kan du la den v
\e,Af
\e(Bre en liste hvor du bruker hvert element i listen
879 som FOO, istedet. da kunne man hatt forskjellige serveres
880 startup-filer forskjellige steder.
882 * LMI> Well, nnbabyl could alter the group info to heed labels like
883 LMI> answered and read, I guess.
885 It could also keep them updated (the same for the Status: header of
888 They could be used like this:
890 `M l <name> RET' add label <name> to current message.
891 `M u <name> RET' remove label <name> from current message.
892 `/ l <expr> RET' limit summary buffer according to <expr>.
894 <expr> would be a boolean expression on the labels, e.g.
896 `/ l bug & !fixed RET'
898 would show all the messages which are labeled `bug' but not labeled
901 One could also imagine the labels being used for highlighting, or
902 affect the summary line format.
904 * Sender: abraham@dina.kvl.dk
906 I'd like a gnus-find-file which work like find file, except that it
907 would recognize things that looks like messages or folders:
909 - If it is a directory containing numbered files, create an nndir
912 - For other directories, create a nneething summary buffer.
914 - For files matching "\\`From ", create a nndoc/mbox summary.
916 - For files matching "\\`BABYL OPTIONS:", create a nndoc/baby
919 - For files matching "\\`[^ \t\n]+:", create an *Article* buffer.
921 - For other files, just find them normally.
923 I'd like `nneething' to use this function, so it would work on a
924 directory potentially containing mboxes or babyl files.
926 * Please send a mail to bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw)
927 and tell him what you are doing.
929 * Currently, I get prompted:
931 decend into sci? - type y decend into sci.something ? - type n
934 The problem above is that since there is really only one
935 subsection of science, shouldn't it prompt you for only descending
936 sci.something? If there was a sci.somethingelse group or section,
937 then it should prompt for sci? first the sci.something? then
938 sci.somethingelse?...
940 * Ja, det burde v
\e,Af
\e(Bre en m
\e,Ae
\e(Bte
\e,Ae
\e(B si slikt. Kanskje en ny variabel?
941 `gnus-use-few-score-files'? S
\e,Ae
\e(B kunne score-regler legges til den
942 "mest" lokale score-fila. F. eks. ville no-gruppene betjenes av
945 * What i want is for Gnus to treat any sequence or combination of
946 the following as a single spoiler warning and hide it all,
947 replacing it with a "Next Page" button:
951 more than n blank lines
953 more than m identical lines (which should be replaced with button
956 any whitespace surrounding any of the above
958 * Well, we could allow a new value to `gnus-thread-ignore-subject' -
959 `spaces', or something. (We could even default to that.) And then
960 subjects that differ in white space only could be considered the
961 "same" subject for threading purposes.
963 * Modes to preprocess the contents (e.g. jka-compr) use the second
964 form "(REGEXP FUNCTION NON-NIL)" while ordinary modes (e.g. tex)
965 use the first form "(REGEXP . FUNCTION)", so you could use it to
966 distinguish between those two types of modes. (auto-modes-alist,
967 insert-file-contents-literally.)
969 * Under XEmacs - do funny article marks: tick - thumb tack killed -
970 skull soup - bowl of soup score below - dim light bulb score over
973 * Yes. I think the algorithm is as follows:
977 show-list-of-articles-in-group
978 if (key-pressed == SPACE)
979 if (no-more-articles-in-group-to-select)
980 if (articles-selected)
981 start-reading-selected-articles;
982 junk-unread-articles;
987 else if (key-pressed = '.')
988 if (consolidated-menus) # same as hide-thread in Gnus
989 select-thread-under-cursor;
991 select-article-under-cursor;
995 if (key-pressed == SPACE)
996 if (more-pages-in-article)
998 else if (more-selected-articles-to-read)
1003 * My precise need here would have been to limit files to Incoming*.
1004 One could think of some `nneething-only-files' variable, but I
1005 guess it would have been unacceptable if one was using many
1006 unrelated such nneething groups.
1008 A more useful approach would be to, in response to the `G D'
1009 prompt, be allowed to say something like: `~/.mail/Incoming*',
1010 somewhat limiting the top-level directory only (in case
1011 directories would be matched by the wildcard expression).
1013 * It would be nice if it also handled
1015 <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/>
1017 which should correspond to `B nntp RET sunsite.auc.dk' in *Group*.
1021 * Take a look at w3-menu.el in the Emacs-W3 distribution - this
1022 works out really well. Each menu is 'named' by a symbol that
1023 would be on a gnus-*-menus (where * would be whatever, but at
1024 least group, summary, and article versions) variable.
1026 So for gnus-summary-menus, I would set to '(sort mark dispose ...)
1028 A value of '1' would just put _all_ the menus in a single 'GNUS'
1029 menu in the main menubar. This approach works really well for
1032 * nndoc should take care to create unique Message-IDs for all its
1035 * gnus-score-followup-article only works when you have a summary
1036 buffer active. Make it work when posting from the group buffer as
1037 well. (message-sent-hook).
1039 * rewrite gnus-demon to use run-with-idle-timers.
1041 * * Enhancements to Gnus:
1045 * gnus-servers (gnus-start-server-buffer?)-enters Gnus and goes
1046 straight to the server buffer, without opening any connections to
1049 * gnus-server-read-server-newsrc-produces a buffer very similar to
1050 the group buffer, but with only groups from that server listed;
1051 quitting this buffer returns to the server buffer.
1053 * add a command to check the integrity of an nnfolder folder - go
1054 through the article numbers and see that there are no duplicates,
1057 * `unsmileyfy-buffer' to undo smileification.
1059 * a command to give all relevant info on an article, including all
1062 * when doing `-request-accept-article', the backends should do the
1063 nnmail duplicate checking.
1065 * allow `message-signature-file' to be a function to return the
1066 value of the signature file.
1068 * In addition, I would love it if I could configure message-tab so
1069 that it could call `bbdb-complete-name' in other headers. So,
1070 some sort of interface like
1072 (setq message-tab-alist '((message-header-regexp
1073 message-expand-group) ("^\\(To\\|[cC]c\\|[bB]cc\\)"
1074 bbdb-complete-name)))
1076 then you could run the relevant function to complete the
1077 information in the header
1079 * cache the newsgroups file locally to avoid reloading it all the
1082 * a command to import a buffer into a group.
1084 * nnweb should allow fetching by Message-ID from servers.
1086 * point in the article buffer doesn't always go to the beginning of
1087 the buffer when selecting new articles.
1089 * a command to process mark all unread articles.
1091 * `gnus-gather-threads-by-references-and-subject' - first do
1092 gathering by references, and then go through the dummy roots and
1093 do more gathering by subject.
1095 * gnus-uu-mark-in-numerical-order - process mark articles in
1096 article numerical order.
1098 * (gnus-thread-total-score (gnus-id-to-thread (mail-header-id
1099 (gnus-summary-article-header)))) bind to a key.
1101 * sorting by score is wrong when using sparse threads.
1103 * a command to fetch an arbitrary article - without having to be in
1106 * a new nncvs backend. Each group would show an article, using
1107 version branches as threading, checkin date as the date, etc.
1109 * http://www.dejanews.com/forms/dnsetfilter_exp.html ? This filter
1110 allows one to construct advance queries on the Dejanews database
1111 such as specifying start and end dates, subject, author, and/or
1114 * new Date header scoring type - older, newer
1116 * use the summary toolbar in the article buffer.
1118 * a command to fetch all articles that are less than X days old.
1120 * in pick mode, `q' should save the list of selected articles in the
1121 group info. The next time the group is selected, these articles
1122 will automatically get the process mark.
1124 * Isn't it possible to (also?) allow M-^ to automatically try the
1125 default server if it fails on the current server? (controlled by a
1126 user variable, (nil, t, 'ask)).
1128 * make it possible to cancel articles using the select method for
1131 * `gnus-summary-select-article-on-entry' or something. It'll
1132 default to t and will select whatever article decided by
1133 `gnus-auto-select-first'.
1135 * a new variable to control which selection commands should be
1136 unselecting. `first', `best', `next', `prev', `next-unread',
1137 `prev-unread' are candidates.
1139 * be able to select groups that have no articles in them to be able
1140 to post in them (using the current select method).
1142 * be able to post via DejaNews.
1144 * `x' should retain any sortings that have been performed.
1146 * allow the user to specify the precedence of the secondary marks.
1147 Also allow them to be displayed separately.
1149 * gnus-summary-save-in-pipe should concatenate the results from the
1150 processes when doing a process marked pipe.
1152 * a new match type, like Followup, but which adds Thread matches on
1153 all articles that match a certain From header.
1155 * a function that can be read from kill-emacs-query-functions to
1156 offer saving living summary buffers.
1158 * a function for selecting a particular group which will contain
1159 the articles listed in a list of article numbers/id's.
1161 * a battery of character translation functions to translate common
1162 Mac, MS (etc) characters into ISO 8859-1.
1164 (defun article-fix-m$word ()
1165 "Fix M$Word smartquotes in an article."
1168 (let ((buffer-read-only nil))
1169 (goto-char (point-min))
1170 (while (search-forward "\221" nil t)
1171 (replace-match "`" t t))
1172 (goto-char (point-min))
1173 (while (search-forward "\222" nil t)
1174 (replace-match "'" t t))
1175 (goto-char (point-min))
1176 (while (search-forward "\223" nil t)
1177 (replace-match "\"" t t))
1178 (goto-char (point-min))
1179 (while (search-forward "\224" nil t)
1180 (replace-match "\"" t t)))))
1184 * (add-hook 'gnus-exit-query-functions
1186 (if (and (file-exists-p nnmail-spool-file)
1187 (> (nnheader-file-size nnmail-spool-file) 0))
1188 (yes-or-no-p "New mail has arrived. Quit Gnus anyways? ")
1189 (y-or-n-p "Are you sure you want to quit Gnus? "))))
1191 * allow message-default-headers to be a function.
1193 * new Date score match types - < > = (etc) that take floating point
1194 numbers and match on the age of the article.
1196 * > > > If so, I've got one gripe: It seems that when I fire up gnus 5.2.25
1197 > > > under xemacs-19.14, it's creating a new frame, but is erasing the
1198 > > > buffer in the frame that it was called from =:-O
1200 > > Hm. How do you start up Gnus? From the toolbar or with
1201 > > `M-x gnus-other-frame'?
1203 > I normally start it up from the toolbar; at
1204 > least that's the way I've caught it doing the
1207 * all commands that react to the process mark should push the
1208 current process mark set onto the stack.
1210 * gnus-article-hide-pgp Selv ville jeg nok ha valgt
\e,Ae
\e(B slette den
1211 dersom teksten matcher
1212 "\\(This\s+\\)?[^ ]+ has been automatically signed by"
1213 og det er maks hundre tegn mellom match-end og ---linja. Men -det-
1214 er min type heuristikk og langt fra alles.
1216 * `gnus-subscribe-sorted' - insert new groups where they would have
1217 been sorted to if `gnus-group-sort-function' were run.
1219 * gnus-(group,summary)-highlight should respect any `face' text
1220 props set on the lines.
1222 * use run-with-idle-timer for gnus-demon instead of the home-brewed
1223 stuff for better reliability.
1225 * add a way to select which NoCeM type to apply - spam, troll, etc.
1227 * nndraft-request-group should tally auto-save files.
1229 * implement nntp-retry-on-break and nntp-command-timeout.
1231 * gnus-article-highlight-limit that says when not to highlight
1234 * (nnoo-set SERVER VARIABLE VALUE)
1238 * interrupitng agent fetching of articles should save articles.
1240 * command to open a digest group, and copy all the articles there
1241 to the current group.
1243 * a variable to disable article body highlights if there's more than
1244 X characters in the body.
1246 * handle 480/381 authinfo requests separately.
1248 * include the texi/dir file in the distribution.
1250 * format spec to "tab" to a position.
1252 * Move all prompting to the new `M-n' default style.
1254 * command to display all dormant articles.
1256 * gnus-auto-select-next makeover - list of things it should do.
1258 * a score match type that adds scores matching on From if From has
1259 replied to something someone else has said.
1261 * Read Netscape discussion groups:
1262 snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.communicator.unix
1264 * One command to edit the original version if an article, and one to
1265 edit the displayed version.
1267 * `T v' - make all process-marked articles the children of the
1270 * Switch from initial text to the new default text mechanism.
1272 * How about making it possible to expire local articles? Will it be
1273 possible to make various constraints on when an article can be
1274 expired, e.g. (read), (age > 14 days), or the more interesting
1275 (read & age > 14 days)?
1277 * New limit command--limit to articles that have a certain string in
1280 * Allow breaking lengthy NNTP commands.
1282 * gnus-article-highlight-limit, to disable highlighting in big
1285 * Editing an article should put the article to be edited in a
1286 special, unique buffer.
1288 * A command to send a mail to the admin-address group param.
1290 * A Date scoring type that will match if the article is less than a
1291 certain number of days old.
1293 * New spec: %~(tab 56) to put point on column 56
1295 * Allow Gnus Agent scoring to use normal score files.
1297 * Rething the Agent active file thing. `M-g' doesn't update the
1298 active file, for instance.
1300 * With dummy roots, `^' and then selecing the first article in any
1301 other dummy thread will make Gnus highlight the dummy root instead
1302 of the first article.
1304 * Propagate all group properties (marks, article numbers, etc) up to
1305 the topics for displaying.
1307 * `n' in the group buffer with topics should go to the next group
1308 with unread articles, even if that group is hidden in a topic.
1310 * gnus-posting-styles doesn't work in drafts.
1312 * gnus-summary-limit-include-cached is slow when there are many
1313 articles in the cache, since it regenerates big parts of the
1314 summary buffer for each article.
1316 * Implement gnus-batch-brew-soup.
1318 * Group parameters and summary commands for un/subscribing to mailing
1321 * Introduce nnmail-home-directory.
1323 * gnus-fetch-group and friends should exit Gnus when the user exits
1326 * The jingle is only played on the second invocation of Gnus.
1328 * Bouncing articles should do MIME.
1332 * Crossposted articles should "inherit" the % or mark from the other
1333 groups it has been crossposted to, or something. (Agent.)
1335 * If point is on a group that appears multiple times in topics, and
1336 you press `l', point will move to the first instance of the group.
1338 * A spec for the group line format to display the number of
1339 agent-downloaded articles in the group.
1341 * Some nntp servers never respond when posting, so there should be a
1342 timeout for all commands.
1344 * When stading on a topic line and `t'-ing, point goes to the last
1345 line. It should go somewhere else.
1347 * I'm having trouble accessing a newsgroup with a "+" in its name
1348 with Gnus. There is a new newsgroup on msnews.microsoft.com named
1349 "microsoft.public.multimedia.directx.html+time" that I'm trying to
1351 "nntp+msnews.microsoft.com:microsoft.public.multimedia.directx.html+time"
1352 but it gives an error that it cant access the group.
1354 Is the "+" character illegal in newsgroup names? Is there any way
1355 in Gnus to work around this? (gnus 5.6.45 - XEmacs 20.4)
1357 [It works in 5.8.8.]
1361 Subject: Answer to your mails 01.01.1999-01.05.1999
1362 --text follows this line--
1363 Sorry I killfiled you...
1365 Under the subject "foo", you wrote on 01.01.1999:
1367 Under the subject "foo1", you wrote on 01.01.1999:
1370 * Allow "orphan" scores in the Agent scoring.
1374 * - Edit article's summary line.
1376 - Sort lines in buffer by subject
1378 --> the old subject line appears in Summary buffer, not the one that was
1381 * Remove list identifiers from the subject in the summary when doing
1384 * Have the Agent write out articles, one by one, as it retrieves
1385 them, to avoid having to re-fetch them all if Emacs should crash
1388 * Be able to forward groups of messages as MIME digests.
1392 * nnweb should include the "get whole article" article when getting
1395 * When I type W W c (gnus-article-hide-citation) in the summary
1396 buffer, the citations are revealed, but the [+] buttons don't turn
1397 into [-] buttons. (If I click on one of the [+] buttons, it does
1398 turn into a [-] button.)
1400 * Perhaps there should be a command to "attach" a buffer of comments
1401 to a message? That is, `B WHATEVER', you're popped into a buffer,
1402 write something, end with `C-c C-c', and then the thing you've
1403 written gets to be the child of the message you're commenting.
1405 * Handle external-body parts.
1407 * When renaming a group name, nnmail-split-history does not get the
1410 * Allow mail splitting on bodies when using advanced mail splitting.
1412 (body "whatever.text")
1414 * Be able to run `J u' from summary buffers.
1416 * Solve the halting problem.
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