X-Git-Url: https://cgit.sxemacs.org/?p=gnus;a=blobdiff_plain;f=contrib%2FREADME;h=bf648ed6b489605ff2e14eff4d514d9738720a43;hp=50d966a021aa2b8f69a7994ec0113f1deadce557;hb=38514cc0cc2016d69948f2cf103cc9742421278c;hpb=f8b2a80d5aa3fae388762a612e406677fdc3ce77 diff --git a/contrib/README b/contrib/README index 50d966a02..bf648ed6b 100644 --- a/contrib/README +++ b/contrib/README @@ -1,81 +1,36 @@ -The files in this directory are not (yet) part of the Gnus -distribution proper. They may later become part of the distribution, -or they may disappear altogether. +The files in this directory are not (yet) part of the Gnus distribution proper. +They may later become part of the distribution, or they may disappear +altogether. -Please note that it is not good to just add this directory to -load-path: a number of files in this directory will become part of -more recent Emacs versions, so that you might be running obsolete -libraries with all kinds of ill effects. +Please note that it is NOT good to just add this directory to `load-path': a +number of files in this directory will become part of more recent Emacs +versions, so that you might be running obsolete libraries with all kinds of ill +effects (cf. `list-load-path-shadows'). -The suggested method for installation is to copy those files that you -need to a directory which is in load-path. +The suggested method for installation is to copy those files that you need to a +directory which is in `load-path'. Here is an overview of the files: compface.el - Provides the ELisp-based uncompface program. It is excellent - and practical (actually you can replace lisp/compface.el with - it), however the author is missing and the copyright has not - been assigned yet. + Provides the ELisp-based uncompface program. It is excellent and + practical (actually you can replace lisp/compface.el with it), however + the author is missing and the copyright has not been assigned yet. gnus-namazu.el - This file defines the command to search mails and persistent - articles with Namazu, which is a full-text search engine - distributed at http://namazu.org, and to browse its results - with Gnus. + This file defines the command to search mails and persistent articles + with Namazu, which is a full-text search engine distributed at + , and to browse its results with Gnus. -gpg-ring.el -gpg.el +gnus-kill-to-score.el -nnir.el - - Interface to various full-text search engines. Provides less - functionality than gnus-namazu.el, but also supports programs - other than Namazu. Current implementation is restricted to - nnml folders, but could be extended for other backends. - -one-line-cookie.diff - -sendmail.el -smtpmail.el - - Copies of the corresponding files from the Emacs lisp/mail/ directory, - to provide features (occasionally) needed by Gnus which may not be - provided by the versions of these files in older Emacs distributions - (Emacs < 22). XEmacs users should NOT use this, since it doesn't work. - See the XEmacs mail-lib module instead. - -ssl.el - - Obsolete interface to OpenSSL. Completely replaced by - lisp/tls.el, which supports both GnuTLS and OpenSSL. This - file will be removed eventually. - -ucs-tables.el - - This file provides improved Unicode functionality. It defines - functions unify-8859-on-encoding-mode and - unify-8859-on-decoding-mode which unify the Latin-N charsets. - Without unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, composing a Latin-9 reply - to a Latin-1 posting, say, will produce a multipart posting (a - Latin-1 part and a Latin-9 part), or perhaps UTF-8. With - unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, the outgoing posting can be all - Latin-1 or all Latin-9 in most cases. - - It is harmless to turn on unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, but - unify-8859-on-decoding-mode may unexpectedly change files in - certain situations. (If the file contains different Latin-N - charsets which should not be unified.) - - This is part of Emacs 21.3 and later, which also turns on - unify-8859-on-encoding-mode by default. + Convert kill files to score files. See (info "(gnus)Converting Kill + Files"). vcard.el -xml.el - - This is used for parsing RSS feeds. Part of Emacs 21.3 and later. - Note that the version of this file in the Gnus contrib/ directory is - out of date with respect to the version in the Emacs tree. +;; Local Variables: +;; fill-column: 79 +;; End: