12.1.5.4 Quassia Gnus
New features in Gnus 5.6:
- New functionality for using Gnus as an offline newsreader has been
added. A plethora of new commands and modes have been added.
See Gnus Unplugged, for the full story.
- The
nndraft back end has returned, but works differently from
before. All Message buffers are now also articles in the nndraft
group, which is created automatically.
gnus-alter-header-function can now be used to alter header
values.
gnus-summary-goto-article now accept Message-IDs.
- A new Message command for deleting text in the body of a message
outside the region: C-c C-v.
- You can now post to component group in
nnvirtual groups with
C-u C-c C-c.
nntp-rlogin-program—new variable to ease customization.
C-u C-c C-c in gnus-article-edit-mode will now inhibit
re-highlighting of the article buffer.
- New element in
gnus-boring-article-headers—long-to.
- M-i symbolic prefix command. See Symbolic Prefixes, for
details.
- L and I in the summary buffer now take the symbolic prefix
a to add the score rule to the all.SCORE file.
gnus-simplify-subject-functions variable to allow greater
control over simplification.
- A T—new command for fetching the current thread.
- / T—new command for including the current thread in the
limit.
- M-RET is a new Message command for breaking cited text.
- ‘\\1’-expressions are now valid in
nnmail-split-methods.
- The
custom-face-lookup function has been removed.
If you used this function in your initialization files, you must
rewrite them to use face-spec-set instead.
- Canceling now uses the current select method. Symbolic prefix
a forces normal posting method.
- New command to translate M******** sm*rtq**t*s into proper
text—W d.
- For easier debugging of
nntp, you can set
nntp-record-commands to a non-nil value.
nntp now uses ~/.authinfo, a .netrc-like file, for
controlling where and how to send AUTHINFO to NNTP servers.
- A command for editing group parameters from the summary buffer
has been added.
- A history of where mails have been split is available.
- A new article date command has been added—
article-date-iso8601.
- Subjects can be simplified when threading by setting
gnus-score-thread-simplify.
- A new function for citing in Message has been
added—
message-cite-original-without-signature.
article-strip-all-blank-lines—new article command.
- A new Message command to kill to the end of the article has
been added.
- A minimum adaptive score can be specified by using the
gnus-adaptive-word-minimum variable.
- The “lapsed date” article header can be kept continually
updated by the
gnus-start-date-timer command.
- Web listserv archives can be read with the
nnlistserv back end.
- Old dejanews archives can now be read by
nnweb.