** Gnus changes.
-Gnus, the Emacs newsreader, has undergone further rewriting. Many new
-commands and variables have been added. There should be no
-significant imcompatabilities between this Gnus version and the
-previosly released version, except in the message composition area.
+The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
+four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
+internationalization and mail-fetching.
-Below is a list of the more user-visible changes. Coding changes
-between Gnus 5.1 and 5.2 are more extensive.
+*** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
+many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
-*** A new message composition mode is used. All old customization
-variables for mail-mode, rnews-reply-mode and gnus-msg are now
-absolete.
+If you used procmail like in
-*** Gnus is now able to generate "sparse" threads -- threads where
-missing articles are represented by empty nodes.
+(setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
+(setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
+(setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
+(setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
- (setq gnus-build-sparse-threads 'some)
+this now has changed to
-*** Outgoing articles are stored on a special archive server.
+(setq mail-sources
+ '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
+ :suffix ".in")))
- To disable this: (setq gnus-message-archive-group nil)
+More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
+Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
-*** Partial thread regeneration now happens when articles are
-referred.
+*** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
+Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
-*** Gnus can make use of GroupLens predictions:
+*** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
+many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
- (setq gnus-use-grouplens t)
+*** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
+called to position point.
-*** Picons (personal icons) can be displayed under XEmacs.
+*** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
+summary buffers and NOV files.
- (setq gnus-use-picons t)
+*** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
+of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
-*** A trn-line tree buffer can be displayed.
+*** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
+subtly different manner.
- (setq gnus-use-trees t)
+*** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
+and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
+ever-changing layouts.
-*** An nn-like pick-and-read minor mode is available for the summary
-buffers.
+*** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
- (add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook 'gnus-pick-mode)
-
-*** In binary groups you can use a special binary minor mode:
-
- `M-x gnus-binary-mode'
-
-*** Groups can be grouped in a folding topic hierarchy.
-
- (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)
-
-*** Gnus can resend and bounce mail.
-
- Use the `S D r' and `S D b'.
-
-*** Groups can now have a score, and bubbling based on entry frequency
-is possible.
-
- (add-hook 'gnus-summary-exit-hook 'gnus-summary-bubble-group)
-
-*** Groups can be process-marked, and commands can be performed on
-groups of groups.
-
-*** Caching is possible in virtual groups.
-
-*** nndoc now understands all kinds of digests, mail boxes, rnews news
-batches, ClariNet briefs collections, and just about everything else.
-
-*** Gnus has a new backend (nnsoup) to create/read SOUP packets.
-
-*** The Gnus cache is much faster.
-
-*** Groups can be sorted according to many criteria.
-
- For instance: (setq gnus-group-sort-function 'gnus-group-sort-by-rank)
-
-*** New group parameters have been introduced to set list-address and
-expiry times.
-
-*** All formatting specs allow specifying faces to be used.
-
-*** There are several more commands for setting/removing/acting on
-process marked articles on the `M P' submap.
-
-*** The summary buffer can be limited to show parts of the available
-articles based on a wide range of criteria. These commands have been
-bound to keys on the `/' submap.
-
-*** Articles can be made persistent -- as an alternative to saving
-articles with the `*' command.
-
-*** All functions for hiding article elements are now toggles.
-
-*** Article headers can be buttonized.
-
- (add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook 'gnus-article-add-buttons-to-head)
-
-*** All mail backends support fetching articles by Message-ID.
-
-*** Duplicate mail can now be treated properly. See the
-`nnmail-treat-duplicates' variable.
-
-*** All summary mode commands are available directly from the article
-buffer.
-
-*** Frames can be part of `gnus-buffer-configuration'.
-
-*** Mail can be re-scanned by a daemonic process.
-
-*** Gnus can make use of NoCeM files to filter spam.
-
- (setq gnus-use-nocem t)
-
-*** Groups can be made permanently visible.
-
- (setq gnus-permanently-visible-groups "^nnml:")
-
-*** Many new hooks have been introduced to make customizing easier.
-
-*** Gnus respects the Mail-Copies-To header.
-
-*** Threads can be gathered by looking at the References header.
-
- (setq gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function
- 'gnus-gather-threads-by-references)
-
-*** Read articles can be stored in a special backlog buffer to avoid
-refetching.
-
- (setq gnus-keep-backlog 50)
-
-*** A clean copy of the current article is always stored in a separate
-buffer to allow easier treatment.
-
-*** Gnus can suggest where to save articles. See `gnus-split-methods'.
-
-*** Gnus doesn't have to do as much prompting when saving.
-
- (setq gnus-prompt-before-saving t)
-
-*** gnus-uu can view decoded files asynchronously while fetching
-articles.
-
- (setq gnus-uu-grabbed-file-functions '`gnus-uu-grab-view)
-
-*** Filling in the article buffer now works properly on cited text.
-
-*** Hiding cited text adds buttons to toggle hiding, and how much
-cited text to hide is now customizable.
-
- (setq gnus-cited-lines-visible 2)
-
-*** Boring headers can be hidden.
-
- (add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook 'gnus-article-hide-boring-headers)
-
-*** Default scoring values can now be set from the menu bar.
-
-*** Further syntax checking of outgoing articles have been added.
-
-The Gnus manual has been expanded. It explains all these new features
-in greater detail.
+\f
+Local variables:
+mode: outline
+paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
+end:
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