X-Git-Url: https://cgit.sxemacs.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=GNUS-NEWS;h=f78071912620395fb29a74c16ccec5f8d76bdb85;hb=c4144077b74d17e1ff8326158f3a8407fdbfde9d;hp=5a0267c0d6cde146bdadbf2d102d6bbbeb61ccbd;hpb=b672c8675b8707cc2e28a9d904ba56ea61038a2f;p=gnus diff --git a/GNUS-NEWS b/GNUS-NEWS index 5a0267c0d..f78071912 100644 --- a/GNUS-NEWS +++ b/GNUS-NEWS @@ -1,30 +1,101 @@ -** Gnus changes. +GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. +Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +See the end for copying conditions. + +Please send Gnus bug reports to bugs@gnus.org. +For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features". + + +* Changes in Oort Gnus + +** Menu bar: "Misc" -> "Gnus". + +** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist + +The regexps in these variables are compared with full group names +instead of real group names in 5.8. Users who customize these +variables should change those regexps accordingly. For example: + + ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr) + +** Gnus now supports PGP-MIME (RFC2015) and SMIME. + +** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external). + +** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'. + +This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of +`back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode. + + +* Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9) The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment, internationalization and mail-fetching. -*** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the +** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone. -*** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of +If you used procmail like in + +(setq nnmail-use-procmail t) +(setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail) +(setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/") +(setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in") + +this now has changed to + +(setq mail-sources + '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/" + :suffix ".in"))) + +More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods -> +Getting Mail -> Mail Sources + +** 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 has also been multilingualized. This also affects too +** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables. -*** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be +** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be called to position point. -*** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in +** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in summary buffers and NOV files. -*** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number +** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added. -*** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a +** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a subtly different manner. -*** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive +** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with ever-changing layouts. + +** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap. + + +* For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features". + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Copyright information: + +Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + + Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies + of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the + copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, + thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. + + Permission is granted to distribute modified versions + of this document, or of portions of it, + under the above conditions, provided also that they + carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. + +Local variables: +mode: outline +paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" +end: