;; Also know as the "wish list". Some are done. For the others, no ;; promise when to be implemented. * gnus-topic-kill-region From Colin Marquardt I noticed that when re-arranging topics, C-k yanks a topic just fine (runs gnus-topic-kill-group). However, my habit is to do marking and the yanking the region, so I would run C-w on the marked topic. But C-w runs gnus-group-kill-region and doesn't yank the topic (for groups it works fine). So could we have a gnus-topic-kill-region, or a gnus-group-kill-region which handles topics as well? * Speed up sorting in summary buffer if there is a limit. Suggested by Daniel Ortmann . * Investigate the memory usage of Gnus. But it does seem strange that Gnus would use some 15meg for this. I think that is worth investigating. I suspect that bugs or bad design are causing waste; they could be in Gnus, or in Emacs. -- RMS * Google group digest The result of Google group search return a thread. Is it a digest format? * NOV caching. Implement NOV caching with Gnus Agent. * Multiple charsets for topic names. [Done] * Allow specification of server in Newsgroups header [Kai wrote] WIBNI I could put `Newsgroups: nntp+quimby:bla' into a message and Gnus would know to post this message on my server `nntp:quimby' into the group bla? I think this would be way cool. But Gnus would have to rewrite the Newsgroups header before actually sending the posting. Thanks for Micha Wiedenmann for this suggestion. * Understand mail-user-agent. Maybe gnus-mail-user-agent. [Done] * Emphasis delimiters show when `W W c'. [Fixed] * Parsing of the common list confirmation requests so that Gnus can prepare the response with a single command. Including LISTSERV periodic ping messages and the like. * Parsing of the various List-* headers to enable automatic commands like "send help message," "send unsubscribe message," and the like. [done, see gnus-ml.el] * Parsing of the subscription notice to stash away details like what address you're subscribed to the list under (and automatically send mail to the list using that address, when you send mail inside the list group), what address to mail to unsubscribe, and the list info message if available. Hitting the "get FAQ" command inside a mailing list group should display that stashed copy of the info message. * Some help in coming up with good split rules for mailing lists, as automated as possible. Splitting on To and Cc is almost always not what I want, since it can misfile messages and since if I'm cc'd on list mail I want to get both copies, one in my personal mailbox and one in the list mailbox. I know other people handle it other ways, but I prefer it that way. Accordingly, some way to semi-automatically generate split rules based on Sender, Mailing-List, Return-Path, X-Loop, and all of the other random headers that often work would be very cool. * Support for zipped folders for all backends this makes sense for. Most likely using jka-compr. (It has been suggested that this do work but I think it should be verified for all backends.) * Support for RFC2015, PGP-MIME. Probably has to involve the people in the Mailcrypt project. [done] * Agent (Can someone write some subtopics here? I don't use it myself so I don't know what is lacking.) * Support for encrypted folders. Even if the mail arrives unencrypted Gnus should be able to encrypt the *folder* for added safety. This should go for both Gnus' own folders and the folders Gnus reads from (e.g. /var/spool/mail/${USER}). All backends this makes sense for. [John Wiegley's article <200011030445.VAA08277@localhost.dynodns.net>, posted on gnu.emacs.gnus does this. Also, gnus-article-encrypt `K E' encrypts the article body.] * The stuff on "Newest Features" in the manual should be implemented and the node updated (it maybe is?). * Splitting .newsrc.eld so the history is in one file and the configuration is in another. To help those that reads at two locations (e.g. work and home) and want to have the same configuration. * gnus-uu-decode should complain if one or more parts of a series post (ie, "part N of X") is missing, and optionally tick what parts are there for decoding in a later session. * Additional article marking, and an ability to affect marks placed during e.g. mail acquisition. I want to be able to notice the subject "fast money" or "web traffic", automatically mark it with a `$', and score it into oblivion. (But I fear that wanting to change marks with mail-source-* and nnmail-* functions will represent a philosophical conflict with the rest of Gnus' management of article marks. mail-source-* and nnmail-* currently hack around with files under ~/Mail and leave traces in ~/Mail/active, but don't affect things stored in .newsrc.eld.) * A much better interface to nnmail-split-methods. I don't know how I'd like this done, but I know that the current method of manually hacking regexps is pretty untenable for new users. My boss, who is tenured faculty at CMU and CEO & CTO at JPRC, and whose research work has involved Lisp for the last 25 years, is trying to implant himself in a Gnus mail environment, and this is a big sticking point even for him. * PGP-supported encryption of entire nnml & nnmh groups. There are people with whom I exchange mail routinely who don't send w/PGP, but I'd really rather that the content not be left lying around unencrypted. Hook into article acquisition the way jka-compr supposedly does, to auto-decrypt every message read. [See Support for encrypted folders.] * Baby's First Mail In Gnus. Some set of functions that the new-to-mail-in-Gnus user can invoke which will query the user appropriately for the basic information required to establish mail handling, leaving the appropriate traces in .gnus. Perhaps a customize buffer would be appropriate. - Where does your mail come from? - If some server, what is your POP/IMAP protocol identity? - What is your identity when sending mail, as opposed to posting to Usenet? - Here are some basic concepts of mail groups (list a few: personal mail, company-wide mail, mailing lists, garbage dumps, receptacles for outbound copies of what one sends; which ones do you want to instantiate, and what mail should land in each? [/viz./ problem of nnmail-split-methods interface.] * Full integration of nnir into Gnus. Generic hooks for adding new external nnir sources. I use a couple experimental, in-house tools (JPRC is a research lab, occupied with document analysis and machine learning) and adding new search engines to nnir by hacking the main nnir.el module is rather clunky. * Manual ordering of articles in an nnml folder. That is, keystrokes to move articles (or whole threads) up or down in the *Summary* buffer relative to the other articles. The order would be persistent (e.g., across gnus sessions). With this ability, an nnml folder would make for a good to-do list. * Since many uses Gnus to store to do lists I think it is time for an nntodo. (I know Kai already written one, maybe use that for a start?) * nnsql backend, which would allow messages or folders to be imported in a local (My|Postgre|?)SQL RDBMS. * "posting profiles" ideally accessible from a popup menu; allowing choice between predefined profiles of from,name,organization,etc. Example: I'm at home, but need to reply to a work mail; i can hit 'R', then use this command to switch to my 'work' profile for purposes of this one reply. (This might already be possible with current Gnus, but I don't think so.) * Better handling of the mail retrieving / splitting feature: - the variables -get-new-mail should not exist anymore. Mail retrieving should be a separate matter. - we should be able to split mails to groups AND backends at the same time. - meanwhile, we should still be able to associate certain mail sources with certain backends. * A better interface to the agent download scoring rules, like the one for the other scoring rules. * Editing of messages in the agents cache. * More article marks (like '!' or '?'). Maybe user defined marks that can be displayed as any choosen charakter, so one could do things like limiting on, to do whatever one likes with these articles. * A possibility to add notes to messages. If thouse could include links to other (stored) messages this would be very practical. * A nnfolder like backend with .overview files. This would not only speed up things, but also allow nnir to work on it. [done] * Allow article editing in groups which do not support it, but emulating it via deleting the old article and entering the new one into the group. This would be very useful to support `T ^' (say) in nnimap groups. * Allow user to specify which kinds of groups should be displayed. For example, I want to display all the groups that are displayed now, plus those which have cached messages in them. (Gnus does display those with ticked messages but not those with cached-but-unticked ones.) This would become even more important when we allow labels. * Go through the todo list and remove items already done. * Create new data type `article identifier' and use that instead of article numbers. A first implementation could offer something like (num . 4711) but this could be extended. This would be useful for using servers with *really* large numbers -- there we could have a bignum type. It might also be useful for the nnweb and nnultimate thingies where article identifiers are not really numbers. * Allow use of digests to keep related articles. Normally, you use groups to group together articles which are thematically related. But sometimes, you have so many themes that this becomes impractical. WIBNI I could have digests in a group, and there was a way to add a new article to one of the digests in that group? Or maybe what I really want is a way to tell Gnus that a specific thread should always be hidden (as in `T h') by default, while most other threads are not hidden by default. Hm. * New backend between nnfolder and nnml: have more than one article per file, but more than one file per group. With .overview files. [done. nnfolder has .overview. Backward- and forward-compatible between 1.0 and 2.0. (setq nnfolder-nov-is-evil t) disables the feature] * .overview files for nnfolder? [done] * New backend nnbabylfolder. There is also nnbabyl which is like nnmbox but uses babyl format, but there is no babyl format equivalent of nnfolder. * Make movement commands in summary buffer independent of `move after mark' behavior when marking articles. Currently, if you don't want `E' to move to the next unread article, you have to set gnus-summary-goto-unread to nil, and then there is no way to move to the next or previous unread article. This one has two sub-tasks. Providing the commands is one thing, finding out useful key bindings for them is another. I think we could provide the commands first while not changing the behavior of the key bindings; then different people can experiment with different key binding schemes until we find something which suits many people. * `Move to next/previous/first article' is a misnomer, since ticked articles are also unread but not moved to by these commands. Should the terminology be fixed or the documentation, or what? * Allow sorting of threads by newest article rather than by root of thread. Consider the following thread structure: root1 Jan 1 leaf1 Jan 4 root2 Jan 2 leaf2 Jan 3 These two threads are sorted this way because root1 is older than root2. I want an option to sort them the other way round because leaf1 is newer than leaf2. * Improve editing of MIME messages. I would like to use html-mode to edit the body of a text/html message, and enriched-mode for text/enriched messages, and so on. This should go for multipart messages as well. This is probably a hard one since Emacs currently does not allow several major modes per buffer. But maybe it would be nice to hack Emacs to provide this infrastructure so that Gnus can make use of it? This would also make it possible to provide nifty commands for editing the headers, for example, rather than relying on commands which do the same thing everywhere. message-x.el is really just a half-assed attempt at doing it, and while it is useful, that's not the way it should be done. I think Francisco Potort,Al(B already did something like this? * Provide commands for editing MML tags. For example, there could be a command mml-add-tag-attribute which prompts me for an attribute name (with completion, from the set filename, type, ...), and then for a value. (This is like `C-c +' in psgml.) Or there could be a command which showed me all the attributes in an MML tag and allows me to use TAB to move between them, and then to edit each attribute value. (This is like `C-c C-a' in psgml.) * Have Gnus automagically set group parameters for mailing list groups. For example, if I have a splitting rule that automatically sorts ding@gnus.org into mail.ding, then Gnus should clue in, set the to-list parameter to 'ding@gnus.org', and set total-expire. (This is probably Hard (TM). And of course the user should be able to configure what parameters exactly get set.) * Along the same lines, automagically detect broken reply-to's. (But don't auto-detect users legitimately setting a reply-to header that points back to the list.) * Make it easier to change parameters on a set of groups, e.g. set/clear gcc-self on process-marked groups. * Make it easier/possible to migrate between primary select-methods, if that concept is going to be kept. Right now I have only one group on my primary server, and I'd kind of like to change from nntp to nnml, but apparently this doesn't work well. * Make it possible to refer to uniquely-named groups without select-method prefix (e.g. mail.misc instead of nnml:mail.misc). * Allow a user-defined picons directory for personal groups. * Annotations as discussed last autumn. Be able to make comments to articles for all bakends. The comments amybe should go into a seperate "backend", like nndraft. * Catchup on a topic and all its subtopics. I.e. do "c y" when on a topic line in *Group*. * Better/more advanced subject washing in *Summary*, see my js-gnus-simplify-subject-function I posted earlier this winter. ;; From Newest Features node. Some are not done. * 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. * A way to continue editing the latest Message composition. * http://www.sonicnet.com/feature/ari3/ [N/A] * facep is not declared. * 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. * Interacting with rmail fcc isn't easy. * Hypermail: [N/A] [N/A] [N/A] [N/A] http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9610/index.html [N/A] [N/A]http://www.miranova.com/gnus-list/ [w3 or nnwarchive?] * `^-- ' is made into - in LaTeX. * gnus-kill is much slower than it was in GNUS 4.1.3. * when expunging articles on low score, the sparse nodes keep hanging on? * starting the first time seems to hang Gnus on some systems. Does NEWGROUPS answer too fast? * nndir doesn't read gzipped files. * FAQ doesn't have an up node? * when moving mail from a procmail spool to the crash-box, the crash-box is only appropriate to one specific group. * `t' `t' makes X-Faces disappear. * nnmh-be-safe means that crossposted articles will be marked as unread. * Orphan score entries don't show on "V t" score trace * when clearing out data, the cache data should also be reset. * rewrite gnus-summary-limit-children to be non-recursive to avoid exceeding lisp nesting on huge groups. * expunged articles are counted when computing scores. * implement gnus-batch-brew-soup * ticked articles aren't easy to read in pick mode - `n' and stuff just skips past them. Read articles are the same. * topics that contain just groups with ticked articles aren't displayed. * nndoc should always allocate unique Message-IDs. * If there are mail groups the first time you use Gnus, Gnus'll make the mail groups killed. * no "no news is good news" when using topics. * when doing crosspost marking, the cache has to be consulted and articles have to be removed. * nnweb should fetch complete articles when they are split into several parts. * scoring on head immediate doesn't work. * finding short score file names takes forever. * canceling articles in foreign groups. * nntp-open-rlogin no longer works. * C-u C-x C-s (Summary) switches to the group buffer. * move nnmail-split-history out to the backends. * nnweb doesn't work properly. * using a virtual server name as `gnus-select-method' doesn't work? * 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. * warn user about `=' redirection of a group in the active file? * take over the XEmacs menubar and offer a toggle between the XEmacs bar and the Gnus bar. * 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)' * nnml .overview directory with splits. * asynchronous cache * postponed commands. * the selected article show have its Subject displayed in its summary line. * when entering groups, get the real number of unread articles from the server? * sort after gathering threads - make false roots have the headers of the oldest orphan with a 0 article number? * nndoc groups should inherit the score files of their parents? Also inherit copy prompts and save files. * command to start up Gnus (if not running) and enter a mail mode buffer. * allow editing the group description from the group buffer for backends that support that. * gnus-hide,show-all-topics * groups and sub-topics should be allowed to mingle inside each topic, and not just list all subtopics at the end. * a command to remove all read articles that are not needed to connect threads - `gnus-summary-limit-to-sparse-unread'? * a variable to turn off limiting/cutting of threads in the tree buffer. * a variable to limit how many files are uudecoded. * add zombie groups to a special "New Groups" topic. * server mode command: close/open all connections * put a file date in gnus-score-alist and check whether the file has been changed before using it. * on exit from a digest group, go to the next article in the parent group. * hide (sub)threads with low score. * when expiring, remove all marks from expired articles. * gnus-summary-limit-to-body * a regexp alist that says what level groups are to be subscribed on. Eg. - `(("nnml:" . 1))'. * easier interface to nnkiboze to create ephemeral groups that contain groups that match a regexp. * allow newlines in urls, but remove them before using the URL. * If there is no From line, the mail backends should fudge one from the "From " line. * fuzzy simplifying should strip all non-alpha-numerical info from subject lines. * gnus-soup-brew-soup-with-high-scores. * nntp-ping-before-connect * command to check whether NOV is evil. "list overview.fmt". * when entering a group, Gnus should look through the score files very early for `local' atoms and set those local variables. * message annotations. * topics are always yanked before groups, and that's not good. * (set-extent-property extent 'help-echo "String to display in minibuf") to display help in the minibuffer on buttons under XEmacs. * allow group line format spec to say how many articles there are in the cache. * AUTHINFO GENERIC * `run-with-idle-timer' in gnus-demon. * stop using invisible text properties and start using overlays instead * C-c C-f C-e to add an Expires header. * go from one group to the next; everything is expunged; go to the next group instead of going to the group buffer. * gnus-renumber-cache - to renumber the cache using "low" numbers. * record topic changes in the dribble buffer. * `nnfolder-generate-active-file' should look at the folders it finds and generate proper active ranges. * nneething-look-in-files-for-article-heads variable to control whether nneething should sniff all files in the directories. * gnus-fetch-article - start Gnus, enter group, display article * gnus-dont-move-articles-to-same-group variable when respooling. * when messages are crossposted between several auto-expirable groups, articles aren't properly marked as expirable. * nneething should allow deletion/moving. * TAB on the last button should go to the first button. * 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. * command for listing all score files that have been applied. * a command in the article buffer to return to `summary' config. * `gnus-always-post-using-current-server' - variable to override `C-c C-c' when posting. * nnmail-group-spool-alist - says where each group should use as a spool file. * when an article is crossposted to an auto-expirable group, the article should be marker as expirable. * article mode command/menu for "send region as URL to browser". * on errors, jump to info nodes that explain the error. For instance, on invalid From headers, or on error messages from the nntp server. * when gathering threads, make the article that has no "Re: " the parent. Also consult Date headers. * a token in splits to call shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer * `1 0 A M' to do matches on the active hashtb. * duplicates - command to remove Gnus-Warning header, use the read Message-ID, delete the "original". * when replying to several messages at once, put the "other" message-ids into a See-Also header. * support setext: URL:http://www.bsdi.com/setext/ * support ProleText: * when browsing a foreign server, the groups that are already subscribed should be listed as such and not as "K". [done] * generate font names dynamically. * score file mode auto-alist. * allow nndoc to change/add/delete things from documents. Implement methods for each format for adding an article to the document. * `gnus-fetch-old-headers' `all' value to incorporate absolutely all headers there is. * function like `|', but concatenate all marked articles and pipe them to the process. * 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. * function for starting to edit a file to put into the current mail group. * score-find-trace should display the total score of the article. * "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. * look at procmail splitting. The backends should create the groups automatically if a spool file exists for that group. * function for backends to register themselves with Gnus. * when replying to several process-marked articles, have all the From end up in Cc headers? Variable to toggle. * command to delete a crossposted mail article from all groups it has been mailed to. * `B c' and `B m' should be crosspost aware. * hide-pgp should also hide PGP public key blocks. * Command in the group buffer to respool process-marked groups. * `gnus-summary-find-matching' should accept pseudo-"headers" like "body", "head" and "all" * When buttifying things, all white space (including newlines) should be ignored. * Process-marking all groups in a topic should process-mark groups in subtopics as well. * Add non-native groups to the list of killed groups when killing them. * nntp-suggest-kewl-config to probe the nntp server and suggest variable settings. * add edit and forward secondary marks. * nnml shouldn't visit its .overview files. * allow customizing sorting within gathered threads. * `B q' shouldn't select the current article. * nnmbox should support a newsgroups file for descriptions. * allow fetching mail from several pop servers. [done] * Be able to specify whether the saving commands save the original or the formatted article. * a command to reparent with the child process-marked (cf. `T ^'.). * I think the possibility to send a password with nntp-open-rlogin should be a feature in Red Gnus. * The `Z n' command should be possible to execute from a mouse click. * more limiting functions - date, etc. * be able to limit on a random header; on body; using reverse matches. * a group parameter (`absofucking-total-expiry') that will make Gnus expire even unread articles. * a command to print the article buffer as postscript. * variable to disable password fetching when opening by nntp-open-telnet. * manual: more example servers - nntp with rlogin, telnet * checking for bogus groups should clean topic alists as well. * canceling articles in foreign groups. * article number in folded topics isn't properly updated by Xref handling. * 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. * Extensive info pages generated on the fly with help everywhere - in the "*Gnus edit*" buffers, for instance. * Topic movement commands - like thread movement. Up, down, forward, next. * a way to tick/mark as read Gcc'd articles. [done, (setq gnus-inews-mark-gcc-as-read t)] * a way to say that all groups within a specific topic comes from a particular server? Hm. * `gnus-article-fill-if-long-lines' - a function to fill the article buffer if there are any looong lines there. * `T h' should jump to the parent topic and fold it. * a command to create an ephemeral nndoc group out of a file, and then splitting it/moving it to some other group/backend. * a group parameter for nnkiboze groups that says that all kibozed articles should be entered into the cache. * 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. * nnfolder should append to the folder instead of re-writing the entire folder to disk when accepting new messages. * allow all backends to do the proper thing with .gz files. * a backend for reading collections of babyl files nnbabylfolder? * a command for making the native groups into foreign groups. * server mode command for clearing read marks from all groups from a server. * when following up multiple articles, include all To, Cc, etc headers from all articles. * a command for deciding what the total score of the current thread is. Also a way to highlight based on this. * command to show and edit group scores * a gnus-tree-minimize-horizontal to minimize tree buffers horizontally. * command to generate nnml overview file for one group. * `C-u C-u a' - prompt for many crossposted groups. * 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. * gnus-build-sparse-threads to a number - build only sparse threads that are of that length. * have nnmh respect mh's unseen sequence in .mh_profile. * cache the newsgroups descriptions locally. * asynchronous posting under nntp. * be able to control word adaptive scoring from the score files. * a variable to make `C-c C-c' post using the "current" select method. * `limit-exclude-low-scored-articles'. * if `gnus-summary-show-thread' is a number, hide threads that have a score lower than this number. * split newsgroup subscription variable up into "order" and "method". * buttonize ange-ftp file names. * a command to make a duplicate copy of the current article so that each copy can be edited separately. * nnweb should allow fetching from the local nntp server. * record the sorting done in the summary buffer so that it can be repeated when limiting/regenerating the buffer. * nnml-generate-nov-databses should generate for all nnml servers. * 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. * M-g on a topic will display all groups with 0 articles in the topic. * command to remove all topic stuff. * allow exploding incoming digests when reading incoming mail and splitting the resulting digests. * nnsoup shouldn't set the `message-' variables. * command to nix out all nnoo state information. * nnmail-process-alist that calls functions if group names matches an alist - before saving. * use buffer-invisibility-spec everywhere for hiding text. * variable to activate each group before entering them to get the (new) number of articles. `gnus-activate-before-entering'. * command to fetch a Message-ID from any buffer, even starting Gnus first if necessary. * when posting and checking whether a group exists or not, just ask the nntp server instead of relying on the active hashtb. * buttonize the output of `C-c C-a' in an apropos-like way. * `G p' should understand process/prefix, and allow editing of several groups at once. * command to create an ephemeral nnvirtual group that matches some regexp(s). * nndoc should understand "Content-Type: message/rfc822" forwarded messages. [done] * it should be possible to score "thread" on the From header. * hitting RET on a "gnus-uu-archive" pseudo article should unpack it. * `B i' should display the article at once in the summary buffer. * remove the "*" mark at once when unticking an article. * `M-s' should highlight the matching text. * when checking for duplicated mails, use Resent-Message-ID if present. * 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. * command for enter a group just to read the cached articles. A way to say "ignore the nntp connection; just read from the cache." * `X u' should decode base64 articles. [`X m' does so.] * a way to hide all "inner" cited text, leaving just the most recently cited text. * nnvirtual should be asynchronous. * after editing an article, gnus-original-article-buffer should be invalidated. * there should probably be a way to make Gnus not connect to the server and just read the articles in the server * allow a `set-default' (or something) to change the default value of nnoo variables. * a command to import group infos from a .newsrc.eld file. * groups from secondary servers have the entire select method listed in each group info. * a command for just switching from the summary buffer to the group buffer. * a way to specify that some incoming mail washing functions should only be applied to some groups. * Message `C-f C-t' should ask the user whether to heed mail-copies-to: never. * new group parameter - `post-to-server' that says to post using the current server. Also a variable to do the same. * the slave dribble files should auto-save to the slave file names. * a group parameter that says what articles to display on group entry, based on article marks. * a way to visually distinguish slave Gnusae from masters. (Whip instead of normal logo?) * Use DJ Bernstein "From " quoting/dequoting, where applicable. * Why is hide-citation-maybe and hide-citation different? Also clear up info. * group user-defined meta-parameters. From: John Griffith * 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 ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/users/claird/news.lists/newsgroup_archives.html * From: Jason L Tibbitts III (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 ""))) * tanken var at n,Ae(Br du bruker `gnus-startup-file' som prefix (FOO) til ,Ae(B lete opp en fil FOO-SERVER, FOO-SERVER.el, FOO-SERVER.eld, kan du la den v,Af(Bre en liste hvor du bruker hvert element i listen som FOO, istedet. da kunne man hatt forskjellige serveres startup-filer forskjellige steder. * 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: `M l RET' add label to current message. `M u RET' remove label from current message. `/ l RET' limit summary buffer according to . would be a boolean expression on the labels, e.g. `/ l bug & !fixed RET' 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. * 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. * Please send a mail to bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw) and tell him what you are doing. * 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?... * Ja, det burde v,Af(Bre en m,Ae(Bte ,Ae(B si slikt. Kanskje en ny variabel? `gnus-use-few-score-files'? S,Ae(B kunne score-regler legges til den "mest" lokale score-fila. F. eks. ville no-gruppene betjenes av "no.all.SCORE", osv. * 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 * 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. * 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.) * 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 * Yes. I think the algorithm is as follows: 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; * 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). * It would be nice if it also handled which should correspond to `B nntp RET sunsite.auc.dk' in *Group*. [done] * 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. * nndoc should take care to create unique Message-IDs for all its articles. * 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). * rewrite gnus-demon to use run-with-idle-timers. * * 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. * 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. * `unsmileyfy-buffer' to undo smileification. * a command to give all relevant info on an article, including all secondary marks. * when doing `-request-accept-article', the backends should do the nnmail duplicate checking. * allow `message-signature-file' to be a function to return the value of the signature file. * 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 * cache the newsgroups file locally to avoid reloading it all the time. * a command to import a buffer into a group. * nnweb should allow fetching by Message-ID from servers. * point in the article buffer doesn't always go to the beginning of the buffer when selecting new articles. * a command to process mark all unread articles. * `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. * gnus-uu-mark-in-numerical-order - process mark articles in article numerical order. * (gnus-thread-total-score (gnus-id-to-thread (mail-header-id (gnus-summary-article-header)))) bind to a key. * sorting by score is wrong when using sparse threads. * a command to fetch an arbitrary article - without having to be in the summary buffer. * a new nncvs backend. Each group would show an article, using version branches as threading, checkin date as the date, etc. * 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. * new Date header scoring type - older, newer * use the summary toolbar in the article buffer. * a command to fetch all articles that are less than X days old. * 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. * 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)). * make it possible to cancel articles using the select method for the current group. * `gnus-summary-select-article-on-entry' or something. It'll default to t and will select whatever article decided by `gnus-auto-select-first'. * a new variable to control which selection commands should be unselecting. `first', `best', `next', `prev', `next-unread', `prev-unread' are candidates. * be able to select groups that have no articles in them to be able to post in them (using the current select method). * be able to post via DejaNews. * `x' should retain any sortings that have been performed. * allow the user to specify the precedence of the secondary marks. Also allow them to be displayed separately. * gnus-summary-save-in-pipe should concatenate the results from the processes when doing a process marked pipe. * a new match type, like Followup, but which adds Thread matches on all articles that match a certain From header. * a function that can be read from kill-emacs-query-functions to offer saving living summary buffers. * a function for selecting a particular group which will contain the articles listed in a list of article numbers/id's. * a battery of character translation functions to translate common Mac, MS (etc) characters into ISO 8859-1. (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))))) [done] * (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? ")))) * allow message-default-headers to be a function. * new Date score match types - < > = (etc) that take floating point numbers and match on the age of the article. * > > > 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. * all commands that react to the process mark should push the current process mark set onto the stack. * gnus-article-hide-pgp Selv ville jeg nok ha valgt ,Ae(B slette den dersom teksten matcher "\\(This\s+\\)?[^ ]+ has been automatically signed by" og det er maks hundre tegn mellom match-end og ---linja. Men -det- er min type heuristikk og langt fra alles. * `gnus-subscribe-sorted' - insert new groups where they would have been sorted to if `gnus-group-sort-function' were run. * gnus-(group,summary)-highlight should respect any `face' text props set on the lines. * use run-with-idle-timer for gnus-demon instead of the home-brewed stuff for better reliability. * add a way to select which NoCeM type to apply - spam, troll, etc. * nndraft-request-group should tally auto-save files. * implement nntp-retry-on-break and nntp-command-timeout. * gnus-article-highlight-limit that says when not to highlight (long) articles. * (nnoo-set SERVER VARIABLE VALUE) [done] * nn*-spool-methods * interrupitng agent fetching of articles should save articles. * command to open a digest group, and copy all the articles there to the current group. * a variable to disable article body highlights if there's more than X characters in the body. * handle 480/381 authinfo requests separately. * include the texi/dir file in the distribution. * format spec to "tab" to a position. * Move all prompting to the new `M-n' default style. * command to display all dormant articles. * gnus-auto-select-next makeover - list of things it should do. * a score match type that adds scores matching on From if From has replied to something someone else has said. * Read Netscape discussion groups: snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.communicator.unix * One command to edit the original version if an article, and one to edit the displayed version. * `T v' - make all process-marked articles the children of the current article. * Switch from initial text to the new default text mechanism. * 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)? * New limit command--limit to articles that have a certain string in the head or body. * Allow breaking lengthy NNTP commands. * gnus-article-highlight-limit, to disable highlighting in big articles. * Editing an article should put the article to be edited in a special, unique buffer. * A command to send a mail to the admin-address group param. * A Date scoring type that will match if the article is less than a certain number of days old. * New spec: %~(tab 56) to put point on column 56 * Allow Gnus Agent scoring to use normal score files. * Rething the Agent active file thing. `M-g' doesn't update the active file, for instance. * 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. * Propagate all group properties (marks, article numbers, etc) up to the topics for displaying. * `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. * gnus-posting-styles doesn't work in drafts. * 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. * Implement gnus-batch-brew-soup. * Group parameters and summary commands for un/subscribing to mailing lists. * Introduce nnmail-home-directory. * gnus-fetch-group and friends should exit Gnus when the user exits the group. * The jingle is only played on the second invocation of Gnus. * Bouncing articles should do MIME. [done] * Crossposted articles should "inherit" the % or mark from the other groups it has been crossposted to, or something. (Agent.) * 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. * A spec for the group line format to display the number of agent-downloaded articles in the group. * Some nntp servers never respond when posting, so there should be a timeout for all commands. * When stading on a topic line and `t'-ing, point goes to the last line. It should go somewhere else. * 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) [It works in 5.8.8.] * When `#F', do: 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 * Allow "orphan" scores in the Agent scoring. [done?] * - 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. * Remove list identifiers from the subject in the summary when doing `^' and the like. * 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. * Be able to forward groups of messages as MIME digests. [done] * nnweb should include the "get whole article" article when getting articles. * 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.) [fixed] * 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. * Handle external-body parts. [done for some access types] * When renaming a group name, nnmail-split-history does not get the group name renamed. * Allow mail splitting on bodies when using advanced mail splitting. (body "whatever.text") * Be able to run `J u' from summary buffers. [Done] * Solve the halting problem. ;; Local Variables: ;; mode: outline ;; coding: iso-2022-7bit ;; paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" ;; End: