-The files in this directory are not (yet) part of the Gnus
-distribution proper. They may later become part of the distribution,
-or they may disappear altogether.
+The files in this directory are not (yet) part of the Gnus distribution proper.
+They may later become part of the distribution, or they may disappear
+altogether.
-Please note that it is not good to just add this directory to
-load-path: a number of files in this directory will become part of
-more recent Emacs versions, so that you might be running obsolete
-libraries with all kinds of ill effects.
+Please note that it is NOT good to just add this directory to `load-path': a
+number of files in this directory will become part of more recent Emacs
+versions, so that you might be running obsolete libraries with all kinds of ill
+effects (cf. `list-load-path-shadows').
-The suggested method for installation is to copy those files that you
-need to a directory which is in load-path.
+The suggested method for installation is to copy those files that you need to a
+directory which is in `load-path'.
Here is an overview of the files:
+compface.el
+
+ Provides the ELisp-based uncompface program. It is excellent and
+ practical (actually you can replace lisp/compface.el with it), however
+ the author is missing and the copyright has not been assigned yet.
+
gnus-namazu.el
- This file defines the command to search mails and persistent
- articles with Namazu, which is a full-text search engine
- distributed at http://namazu.org, and to browse its results
- with Gnus.
+ This file defines the command to search mails and persistent articles
+ with Namazu, which is a full-text search engine distributed at
+ <http://namazu.org>, and to browse its results with Gnus.
+
+gnus-kill-to-score.el
+
+ Convert kill files to score files. See (info "(gnus)Converting Kill
+ Files").
gpg-ring.el
gpg.el
-hashcash.el
+ Obsoleted by PGG and EasyPG.
-nnir.el
+one-line-cookie.diff
- Interface to various full-text search engines. Provides less
- functionality than gnus-namazu.el, but also supports programs
- other than Namazu. Current implementation is restricted to
- nnml folders, but could be extended for other backends.
+sendmail.el
+smtpmail.el
-one-line-cookie.diff
+ Copies of the corresponding files from the Emacs lisp/mail/ directory,
+ to provide features (occasionally) needed by Gnus which may not be
+ provided by the versions of these files in older Emacs distributions
+ (Emacs < 22). XEmacs users should NOT use this, since it doesn't work.
+ See the XEmacs mail-lib module instead.
ssl.el
+ Obsolete interface to OpenSSL. Completely replaced by `lisp/tls.el',
+ which supports both GnuTLS and OpenSSL. This file will be removed
+ eventually.
+
ucs-tables.el
This file provides improved Unicode functionality. It defines
- functions unify-8859-on-encoding-mode and
- unify-8859-on-decoding-mode which unify the Latin-N charsets.
- Without unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, composing a Latin-9 reply
- to a Latin-1 posting, say, will produce a multipart posting (a
- Latin-1 part and a Latin-9 part), or perhaps UTF-8. With
- unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, the outgoing posting can be all
- Latin-1 or all Latin-9 in most cases.
-
- It is harmless to turn on unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, but
- unify-8859-on-decoding-mode may unexpectedly change files in
+ functions `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode' and
+ `unify-8859-on-decoding-mode' which unify the Latin-N charsets.
+ Without `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode', composing a Latin-9 reply to a
+ Latin-1 posting, say, will produce a multipart posting (a Latin-1 part
+ and a Latin-9 part), or perhaps UTF-8. With
+ `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode', the outgoing posting can be all Latin-1
+ or all Latin-9 in most cases.
+
+ It is harmless to turn on `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode', but
+ `unify-8859-on-decoding-mode' may unexpectedly change files in
certain situations. (If the file contains different Latin-N
charsets which should not be unified.)
This is part of Emacs 21.3 and later, which also turns on
- unify-8859-on-encoding-mode by default.
+ `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode' by default.
vcard.el
xml.el
- This is used for parsing RSS feeds. Part of Emacs 21.3 and
- later.
+ This is used for parsing RSS feeds. Part of Emacs 21.3 and later.
+ Note that the version of this file in the Gnus contrib/ directory is
+ out of date with respect to the version in the Emacs tree, so don't use
+ this file unless using Emacs < 21.3.
+
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+;; End:
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