X-Git-Url: http://cgit.sxemacs.org/?p=gnus;a=blobdiff_plain;f=texi%2Fgnus-news.texi;h=1136d52e51d5d2cbe44fdd47470cfb2300a61727;hp=86da8dae563a83924513ca848c6cb98eff16a1a8;hb=f5583602550eb18f526f3f6c4cb94409ae05d702;hpb=ae378f5764d5cc5424baf8137bfdb314da75c6e2 diff --git a/texi/gnus-news.texi b/texi/gnus-news.texi index 86da8dae5..1136d52e5 100644 --- a/texi/gnus-news.texi +++ b/texi/gnus-news.texi @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ @c -*-texinfo-*- -@c Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +@c Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies @c of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the @@ -18,6 +18,17 @@ @itemize @bullet +@item Supported Emacs versions +The following Emacs versions are supported by No Gnus: +@itemize @bullet + +@item Emacs 22 and up +@item XEmacs 21.4 +@item XEmacs 21.5 +@item SXEmacs + +@end itemize + @item Installation changes @itemize @bullet @@ -32,6 +43,15 @@ file, where this release will store flags for nntp. See a later entry for more information about nntp marks. Note that downgrading isn't safe in general. +@item Incompatibility when switching from Emacs 23 to Emacs 22 +In Emacs 23, Gnus uses Emacs' new internal coding system @code{utf-8-emacs} +for saving articles drafts and @file{~/.newsrc.eld}. These files may not +be read correctly in Emacs 22 and below. If you want to use Gnus across +different Emacs versions, you may set @code{mm-auto-save-coding-system} +to @code{emacs-mule}. +@c FIXME: Untested. (Or did anyone test it?) +@c Cf. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66251/focus=66344 + @item Lisp files are now installed in @file{.../site-lisp/gnus/} by default. It defaulted to @file{.../site-lisp/} formerly. In addition to this, the new installer issues a warning if other Gnus installations which @@ -39,51 +59,20 @@ will shadow the latest one are detected. You can then remove those shadows manually or remove them using @code{make remove-installed-shadows}. -@item -New @file{make.bat} for compiling and installing Gnus under MS Windows. - -Use @file{make.bat} if you want to install Gnus under MS Windows, the -first argument to the batch-program should be the directory where -@file{xemacs.exe} respectively @file{emacs.exe} is located, if you want -to install Gnus after compiling it, give @file{make.bat} @code{/copy} as -the second parameter. - -@file{make.bat} has been rewritten from scratch, it now features -automatic recognition of XEmacs and GNU Emacs, generates -@file{gnus-load.el}, checks if errors occur while compilation and -generation of info files and reports them at the end of the build -process. It now uses @code{makeinfo} if it is available and falls -back to @file{infohack.el} otherwise. @file{make.bat} should now -install all files which are necessary to run Gnus and be generally a -complete replacement for the @code{configure; make; make install} -cycle used under Unix systems. - -The new @file{make.bat} makes @file{make-x.bat} and @file{xemacs.mak} -superfluous, so they have been removed. - -@item @file{~/News/overview/} not used. - -As a result of the following change, the @file{~/News/overview/} -directory is not used any more. You can safely delete the entire -hierarchy. - -@c FIXME: `gnus-load' is mentioned in README, which is not included in -@c CVS. We should find a better place for this item. -@item -@code{(require 'gnus-load)} - -If you use a stand-alone Gnus distribution, you'd better add -@code{(require 'gnus-load)} into your @file{~/.emacs} after adding the Gnus -lisp directory into load-path. - -File @file{gnus-load.el} contains autoload commands, functions and variables, -some of which may not be included in distributions of Emacsen. +@item The installation directory name is allowed to have spaces and/or tabs. @end itemize @item New packages and libraries within Gnus @itemize @bullet +@item New version of @code{nnimap} + +@code{nnimap} has been reimplemented in a mostly-compatible way. See +the Gnus manual for a description of the new interface. In +particular, @code{nnimap-inbox} and the client side split method has +changed. + @item Gnus includes the Emacs Lisp @acronym{SASL} library. This provides a clean @acronym{API} to @acronym{SASL} mechanisms from @@ -104,6 +93,31 @@ timeout of 16 seconds (see @code{password-cache-expiry}). If passphrase is managed by this mechanism. Passwords for ManageSieve connections are managed by this mechanism, after querying the user about whether to do so. + +@item Using EasyPG with Gnus +When EasyPG, is available, Gnus will use it instead of @acronym{PGG}. +EasyPG is an Emacs user interface to GNU Privacy Guard. @xref{Top, +,EasyPG Assistant user's manual, epa, EasyPG Assistant user's manual}. +EasyPG is included in Emacs 23 and available separately as well. +@end itemize + +@item Changes in group mode +@c ************************ + +@itemize @bullet + +@item +Symbols like @code{gcc-self} now has the same presedence rules in +@code{gnus-parameters} as other ``real'' variables: The last match +wins instead of the first match. + +@item +Old intermediate incoming mail files (@file{Incoming*}) are deleted +after a couple of days, not immediately. @xref{Mail Source +Customization}. +(New in Gnus 5.10.10 / No Gnus 0.8) +@c This entry is also present in the node "Oort Gnus". + @end itemize @item Changes in summary and article mode @@ -114,6 +128,15 @@ about whether to do so. that are not reused when you select another article. @xref{Sticky Articles}. +@c @item Bookmarks +@c FIXME: To be added + +@item Gnus can selectively display @samp{text/html} articles +with a WWW browser with @kbd{K H}. @xref{MIME Commands}. + +@c gnus-registry-marks +@c FIXME: To be added + @item International host names (@acronym{IDNA}) can now be decoded inside article bodies using @kbd{W i} (@code{gnus-summary-idna-message}). This requires that GNU Libidn @@ -180,6 +203,19 @@ inline @acronym{PGP} signed messages. @xref{Flowed text, ,Flowed text, emacs-mime, The Emacs MIME Manual}. (New in Gnus 5.10.7) @c This entry is also present in the node "Oort Gnus". +@item Now the new command @kbd{S W} +(@code{gnus-article-wide-reply-with-original}) for a wide reply in the +article buffer yanks a text that is in the active region, if it is set, +as well as the @kbd{R} (@code{gnus-article-reply-with-original}) command. +Note that the @kbd{R} command in the article buffer no longer accepts a +prefix argument, which was used to make it do a wide reply. +@xref{Article Keymap}. + +@item The new command @kbd{C-h b} +(@code{gnus-article-describe-bindings}) used in the article buffer now +shows not only the article commands but also the real summary commands +that are accessible from the article buffer. + @end itemize @item Changes in Message mode @@ -215,22 +251,19 @@ named @code{message-signature-directory}. @item The option @code{message-citation-line-format} controls the format of the "Whomever writes:" line. You need to set @code{message-citation-line-function} to -@code{message-insert-formated-citation-line} as well. +@code{message-insert-formatted-citation-line} as well. +@end itemize + +@item Changes in Browse Server mode + +@itemize @bullet +@item Gnus' sophisticated subscription methods are now available in +Browse Server buffers as well using the variable +@code{gnus-browse-subscribe-newsgroup-method}. -@item -Gnus no longer generate the Sender: header automatically. - -Earlier it was generated when the user configurable email address was -different from the Gnus guessed default user address. As the guessing -algorithm is rarely correct these days, and (more controversially) the -only use of the Sender: header was to check if you are entitled to -cancel/supersede news (which is now solved by Cancel Locks instead, -see another entry), generation of the header has been disabled by -default. See the variables @code{message-required-headers}, -@code{message-required-news-headers}, and -@code{message-required-mail-headers}. @end itemize + @item Changes in back ends @itemize @bullet @@ -270,6 +303,13 @@ This feature, accessible via the functions renumbers all articles in a group, starting from 1 and removing gaps. As a consequence, you get a correct total article count (until messages are deleted again). + +@c @item nnmairix.el +@c FIXME + +@c @item nnir.el +@c FIXME + @end itemize @item Appearance @@ -278,9 +318,8 @@ messages are deleted again). @itemize @bullet @item The tool bar has been updated to use GNOME icons. -You can also customize the tool bar. There's no documentation in the -manual yet, but @kbd{M-x customize-apropos RET -tool-bar$} should get -you started. (Only for Emacs, not in XEmacs.) +You can also customize the tool bars: @kbd{M-x customize-apropos RET +-tool-bar$} should get you started. (Only for Emacs, not in XEmacs.) @c FIXME: Document this in the manual @item The tool bar icons are now (de)activated correctly @@ -306,12 +345,21 @@ intermediate host @samp{bar.example.com} from next time. @item The @file{all.SCORE} file can be edited from the group buffer using @kbd{W e}. +@item You can set @code{gnus-mark-copied-or-moved-articles-as-expirable} +to a non-@code{nil} value so that articles that have been read may be +marked as expirable automatically when copying or moving them to a group +that has auto-expire turned on. The default is @code{nil} and copying +and moving of articles behave as before; i.e., the expirable marks will +be unchanged except that the marks will be removed when copying or +moving articles to a group that has not turned auto-expire on. +@xref{Expiring Mail}. + +@item NoCeM support has been removed. + +@item Carpal mode has been removed. + @end itemize @end itemize @c gnus-news.texi ends here. - -@ignore - arch-tag: 872c7569-4340-4d73-9d1d-7826d9f94a51 -@end ignore