(Exiting Gnus): Removed gnus-unload.

[gnus] / todo

;; 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 <colin.marquardt@usa.alcatel.com>
  
  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 <ortmann@isl.net>.

* 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 <backend>-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\e,Al\e(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]<URL:http://www.falch.no/people/pepper/DSSSL-Lite/archives/>
      [N/A]<URL:http://www.eit.com/software/hypermail/hypermail.html>
      [N/A]<URL:http://homer.ncm.com/>
      [N/A]<URL:http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/HTML_Converters/>
      http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9610/index.html
      [N/A]<URL:http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/www/html/converters.html>
      [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 <URL:> 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:
 <URL:http://proletext.clari.net/prole/proletext.html>

*  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 <URL: > 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.