;; Also know as the "wish list". Some are done. For the others, no
;; promise when to be implemented.
+* Go through the todo list and remove items already done.
+
+* Use a new custom type (`define-widget') for posting-style in `gnus-cus.el'
+ (G c) and for `gnus-posting-styles'. Maybe some allowed types are still
+ missing.
+
+* Add proper doc strings to functions and variables explained in the manual
+ (info "(gnus)Gnus Utility Functions")
+
+* Add Message-IDs or URLs refering to relevant discussions on lists and
+ newsgroups.
+
+* Use nicer tool bar icons from GNOME
+
+ Done for Emacs (The GNOME icons won't fit into standard XEmacs icons,
+ IMHO. -- rsteib) in group, summary and message mode.
+
+ Some modes might also deserve improved tool bars:
+
+ - gnus-draft-mode
+
+ - mml-preview buffer:
+
+ . zap most buttons; except print, customize (?) and help
+
+ . "exit" should just kill the buffer
+
+ - gnus-server-mode: Add some commands from the Connections and Server
+ menu.
+
+ - gnus-browse-mode (could borrow some icons from gnus-group-mode)
+
+ (See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62147).
+
+* Maybe Gnus should support the LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS, see RFC 2980.
+
+* Merge `message-extra-wide-headers' and ` message-header-synonyms'?
+
+* Maybe texi/emacs-mime.texi could be divided into user-visible stuff and
+ reference manual for the MIME library.
+
+ Related: Bill Wohler's article on mh-e-user.
+ http://thread.gmane.org/29067.1138078896@olgas.newt.com
+
+* Fix `change servers' command, see David Kastrup's message.
+ http://thread.gmane.org/x54qewqxz4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz
+
+* texi/gnus-coding.texi should be fixed.
+
+* 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.
+
+* 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.
+
+* 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 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.)
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.
-* The stuff on "Newest Features" in the manual should be implemented
- and the node updated (it maybe is?).
+ [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.]
* Splitting .newsrc.eld so the history is in one file and the
configuration is in another. To help those that reads at two
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
you want to instantiate, and what mail should land in each?
[/viz./ problem of nnmail-split-methods interface.]
+ [Probably `assistant.el' will provide this. But it's development is
+ stalled.]
+
* 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
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
+* A possibility to add notes to messages. If those 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
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
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.
* 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
+ articles for all backends. The comments maybe should go into a
seperate "backend", like nndraft.
* Catchup on a topic and all its subtopics. I.e. do "c y" when on a
* 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.
* 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.
* 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
* 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.
* 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.
* `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.
+* When buttifying <URL: > things, all white space (including newlines) should
+ be ignored.
+
+ [Done]
+
+ But not for cited URLs.
* 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.
+If this entry is about non-foreign non-native groups, then it was
+actually a bug that prevented them from being inserted into
+gnus-killed-list:
+<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/63383/>
+
* nntp-suggest-kewl-config to probe the nntp server and suggest
variable settings.
* 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.
* more limiting functions - date, etc.
+ We have `gnus-summary-limit-to-age'. What's missing? Maybe enter a date?
+
* 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.
* 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.
then you could run the relevant function to complete the
information in the header
+ [Done using `message-completion-alist'?]
+
* cache the newsgroups file locally to avoid reloading it all the
time.
* nnweb should allow fetching by Message-ID from servers.
+ [Done?]
+
* point in the article buffer doesn't always go to the beginning of
the buffer when selecting new articles.
default server if it fails on the current server? (controlled by a
user variable, (nil, t, 'ask)).
+ [Done by `gnus-refer-article-method'?]
+
* make it possible to cancel articles using the select method for
the current group.
* a function for selecting a particular group which will contain
the articles listed in a list of article numbers/id's.
-* a battery of character translation functions to translate common
- Mac, MS (etc) characters into ISO 8859-1.
-
- (defun article-fix-m$word ()
- "Fix M$Word smartquotes in an article."
- (interactive)
- (save-excursion
- (let ((buffer-read-only nil))
- (goto-char (point-min))
- (while (search-forward "\221" nil t)
- (replace-match "`" t t))
- (goto-char (point-min))
- (while (search-forward "\222" nil t)
- (replace-match "'" t t))
- (goto-char (point-min))
- (while (search-forward "\223" nil t)
- (replace-match "\"" t t))
- (goto-char (point-min))
- (while (search-forward "\224" nil t)
- (replace-match "\"" t t)))))
-
- [done]
-
* (add-hook 'gnus-exit-query-functions
'(lambda ()
(if (and (file-exists-p nnmail-spool-file)
* (nnoo-set SERVER VARIABLE VALUE)
+ [done]
+
* nn*-spool-methods
* interrupitng agent fetching of articles should save articles.
* The jingle is only played on the second invocation of Gnus.
-* Bouncing articles should do MIME.
-
- [done]
-
* Crossposted articles should "inherit" the % or mark from the other
groups it has been crossposted to, or something. (Agent.)
Is the "+" character illegal in newsgroup names? Is there any way
in Gnus to work around this? (gnus 5.6.45 - XEmacs 20.4)
+ [It works in 5.8.8.]
+
* When `#F', do:
Subject: Answer to your mails 01.01.1999-01.05.1999
into [-] buttons. (If I click on one of the [+] buttons, it does
turn into a [-] button.)
+ [fixed]
+
* Perhaps there should be a command to "attach" a buffer of comments
to a message? That is, `B WHATEVER', you're popped into a buffer,
write something, end with `C-c C-c', and then the thing you've
* Handle external-body parts.
+ [done for some access types]
+
* When renaming a group name, nnmail-split-history does not get the
group name renamed.
(body "whatever.text")
-* Be able to run `J u' from summary buffers.
-
* Solve the halting problem.
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