;; Also know as the "wish list". Some are done. For the others, no
;; promise when to be implemented.
-* Emphasis delimiters show when `W W c'.
+* 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.
-* 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.
+* Add proper doc strings to functions and variables explained in the manual
+ (info "(gnus)Gnus Utility Functions")
-* Parsing of the various List-* headers to enable automatic commands
- like "send help message," "send unsubscribe message," and the like.
+* Add Message-IDs or URLs refering to relevant discussions on lists and
+ newsgroups.
- [done, see gnus-ml.el]
+* 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 subscription notice to stash away details like what
address you're subscribed to the list under (and automatically send
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.)
+* Agent:
-* 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.)
+* A better interface to the agent download scoring rules, like the one
+ for the other scoring rules.
+* Editing of messages in the agents cache.
+
* 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
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
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.]
-* 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.
+ [Probably `assistant.el' will provide this. But it's development is
+ stalled.]
* Manual ordering of articles in an nnml folder.
- 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
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.
* 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
+ 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
* 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
* 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?
* 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
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* `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.
+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.
* Topic movement commands - like thread movement. Up, down,
forward, next.
-* a way to tick/mark as read Gcc'd articles.
-
* a way to say that all groups within a specific topic comes from a
particular server? Hm.
* a command to create an ephemeral nndoc group out of a file, and
then splitting it/moving it to some other group/backend.
-* a group parameter for nnkiboze groups that says that all kibozed
- articles should be entered into the cache.
-
* It should also probably be possible to delimit what
`gnus-jog-cache' does - for instance, work on just some groups, or
on some levels, and entering just articles that have a score
* nnfolder should append to the folder instead of re-writing the
entire folder to disk when accepting new messages.
-* allow all backends to do the proper thing with .gz files.
-
* a backend for reading collections of babyl files nnbabylfolder?
* a command for making the native groups into foreign groups.
* allow exploding incoming digests when reading incoming mail and
splitting the resulting digests.
-* nnsoup shouldn't set the `message-' variables.
-
* command to nix out all nnoo state information.
* nnmail-process-alist that calls functions if group names matches
* command to create an ephemeral nnvirtual group that matches some
regexp(s).
-* nndoc should understand "Content-Type: message/rfc822" forwarded
- messages.
-
- [done]
-
* it should be possible to score "thread" on the From header.
* hitting RET on a "gnus-uu-archive" pseudo article should unpack
* command for enter a group just to read the cached articles. A
way to say "ignore the nntp connection; just read from the cache."
-* `X u' should decode base64 articles.
-
- [`X m' does so.]
-
* a way to hide all "inner" cited text, leaving just the most
recently cited text.
I'd like `nneething' to use this function, so it would work on a
directory potentially containing mboxes or babyl files.
-* Please send a mail to bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw)
- and tell him what you are doing.
-
* Currently, I get prompted:
decend into sci? - type y decend into sci.something ? - type n
somewhat limiting the top-level directory only (in case
directories would be matched by the wildcard expression).
-* It would be nice if it also handled
-
- <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/>
-
- which should correspond to `B nntp RET sunsite.auc.dk' in *Group*.
-
- [done]
-
* Take a look at w3-menu.el in the Emacs-W3 distribution - this
works out really well. Each menu is 'named' by a symbol that
would be on a gnus-*-menus (where * would be whatever, but at
buffer active. Make it work when posting from the group buffer as
well. (message-sent-hook).
-* rewrite gnus-demon to use run-with-idle-timers.
-
* * Enhancements to Gnus:
Add two commands:
through the article numbers and see that there are no duplicates,
and stuff.
-* `unsmileyfy-buffer' to undo smileification.
-
* a command to give all relevant info on an article, including all
secondary marks.
* when doing `-request-accept-article', the backends should do the
nnmail duplicate checking.
-* allow `message-signature-file' to be a function to return the
- value of the signature file.
-
* In addition, I would love it if I could configure message-tab so
that it could call `bbdb-complete-name' in other headers. So,
some sort of interface like
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.
* a new nncvs backend. Each group would show an article, using
version branches as threading, checkin date as the date, etc.
-* http://www.dejanews.com/forms/dnsetfilter_exp.html ? This filter
- allows one to construct advance queries on the Dejanews database
- such as specifying start and end dates, subject, author, and/or
- newsgroup name.
-
-* new Date header scoring type - older, newer
+* A Date scoring type that will match if the article is less than a certain
+ number of days old. With - < > = (etc) that take floating point numbers and
+ match on the age of the article.
* use the summary toolbar in the article buffer.
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.
-* `gnus-summary-select-article-on-entry' or something. It'll
- default to t and will select whatever article decided by
- `gnus-auto-select-first'.
-
* a new variable to control which selection commands should be
unselecting. `first', `best', `next', `prev', `next-unread',
`prev-unread' are candidates.
* 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)
(yes-or-no-p "New mail has arrived. Quit Gnus anyways? ")
(y-or-n-p "Are you sure you want to quit Gnus? "))))
-* allow message-default-headers to be a function.
-
-* new Date score match types - < > = (etc) that take floating point
- numbers and match on the age of the article.
-
-* > > > If so, I've got one gripe: It seems that when I fire up gnus 5.2.25
- > > > under xemacs-19.14, it's creating a new frame, but is erasing the
- > > > buffer in the frame that it was called from =:-O
- >
- > > Hm. How do you start up Gnus? From the toolbar or with
- > > `M-x gnus-other-frame'?
- >
- > I normally start it up from the toolbar; at
- > least that's the way I've caught it doing the
- > deed before.
-
* all commands that react to the process mark should push the
current process mark set onto the stack.
* gnus-(group,summary)-highlight should respect any `face' text
props set on the lines.
-* use run-with-idle-timer for gnus-demon instead of the home-brewed
- stuff for better reliability.
-
-* add a way to select which NoCeM type to apply - spam, troll, etc.
-
* nndraft-request-group should tally auto-save files.
* implement nntp-retry-on-break and nntp-command-timeout.
* gnus-article-highlight-limit that says when not to highlight
(long) articles.
-* (nnoo-set SERVER VARIABLE VALUE)
-
- [done]
-
* nn*-spool-methods
-* interrupitng agent fetching of articles should save articles.
+* Interrupting the agent fetching of articles should save articles.
+ Have the Agent write out articles, one by one, as it retrieves
+ them, to avoid having to re-fetch them all if Emacs should crash
+ while fetching.
* command to open a digest group, and copy all the articles there
to the current group.
* include the texi/dir file in the distribution.
-* format spec to "tab" to a position.
-
-* Move all prompting to the new `M-n' default style.
-
* command to display all dormant articles.
* gnus-auto-select-next makeover - list of things it should do.
* a score match type that adds scores matching on From if From has
replied to something someone else has said.
-* Read Netscape discussion groups:
- snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.communicator.unix
-
* One command to edit the original version if an article, and one to
edit the displayed version.
* A command to send a mail to the admin-address group param.
-* A Date scoring type that will match if the article is less than a
- certain number of days old.
-
-* New spec: %~(tab 56) to put point on column 56
-
* Allow Gnus Agent scoring to use normal score files.
* Rething the Agent active file thing. `M-g' doesn't update the
* gnus-fetch-group and friends should exit Gnus when the user exits
the group.
-* 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.)
* When stading on a topic line and `t'-ing, point goes to the last
line. It should go somewhere else.
-* I'm having trouble accessing a newsgroup with a "+" in its name
- with Gnus. There is a new newsgroup on msnews.microsoft.com named
- "microsoft.public.multimedia.directx.html+time" that I'm trying to
- access as
- "nntp+msnews.microsoft.com:microsoft.public.multimedia.directx.html+time"
- but it gives an error that it cant access the group.
-
- 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
* Remove list identifiers from the subject in the summary when doing
`^' and the like.
-* Have the Agent write out articles, one by one, as it retrieves
- them, to avoid having to re-fetch them all if Emacs should crash
- while fetching.
-
-* Be able to forward groups of messages as MIME digests.
-
- [done]
-
* nnweb should include the "get whole article" article when getting
articles.
-* When I type W W c (gnus-article-hide-citation) in the summary
- buffer, the citations are revealed, but the [+] buttons don't turn
- into [-] buttons. (If I click on one of the [+] buttons, it does
- turn into a [-] button.)
-
* 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
(body "whatever.text")
-* Be able to run `J u' from summary buffers.
-
* Solve the halting problem.
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