gnus: No Gnus
11.2.8.7 No Gnus
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New features in No Gnus:
• Supported Emacs versions The following Emacs versions are supported
by No Gnus:
• Emacs 22 and up
• XEmacs 21.4
• XEmacs 21.5
• SXEmacs
• Installation changes
• Upgrading from previous (stable) version if you have used No
Gnus.
If you have tried No Gnus (the unstable Gnus branch leading to
this release) but went back to a stable version, be careful
when upgrading to this version. In particular, you will
probably want to remove the ‘~/News/marks’ directory (perhaps
selectively), so that flags are read from your ‘~/.newsrc.eld’
instead of from the stale marks file, where this release will
store flags for nntp. See a later entry for more information
about nntp marks. Note that downgrading isn’t safe in
general.
• Incompatibility when switching from Emacs 23 to Emacs 22 In
Emacs 23, Gnus uses Emacs’s new internal coding system
‘utf-8-emacs’ for saving articles drafts and ‘~/.newsrc.eld’.
These files may not be read correctly in Emacs 22 and below.
If you want to use Gnus across different Emacs versions, you
may set ‘mm-auto-save-coding-system’ to ‘emacs-mule’.
• Lisp files are now installed in ‘.../site-lisp/gnus/’ by
default. It defaulted to ‘.../site-lisp/’ formerly. In
addition to this, the new installer issues a warning if other
Gnus installations which will shadow the latest one are
detected. You can then remove those shadows manually or
remove them using ‘make remove-installed-shadows’.
• The installation directory name is allowed to have spaces
and/or tabs.
• New packages and libraries within Gnus
• New version of ‘nnimap’
‘nnimap’ has been reimplemented in a mostly-compatible way.
See the Gnus manual for a description of the new interface.
In particular, ‘nnimap-inbox’ and the client side split method
has changed.
• Gnus includes the Emacs Lisp SASL library.
This provides a clean API to SASL mechanisms from within
Emacs. The user visible aspects of this, compared to the
earlier situation, include support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM.
Emacs SASL (sasl)Top.
• ManageSieve connections uses the SASL library by default.
The primary change this brings is support for DIGEST-MD5 and
NTLM, when the server supports it.
• Gnus includes a password cache mechanism in password.el.
It is enabled by default (see ‘password-cache’), with a short
timeout of 16 seconds (see ‘password-cache-expiry’). If PGG
is used as the PGP back end, the PGP passphrase is managed by
this mechanism. Passwords for ManageSieve connections are
managed by this mechanism, after querying the user about
whether to do so.
• Using EasyPG with Gnus When EasyPG, is available, Gnus will
use it instead of PGG. EasyPG is an Emacs user interface to
GNU Privacy Guard. EasyPG Assistant user’s manual
(epa)Top. EasyPG is included in Emacs 23 and available
separately as well.
• Changes in group mode
• Symbols like ‘gcc-self’ now have the same precedence rules in
‘gnus-parameters’ as other “real” variables: The last match
wins instead of the first match.
• Old intermediate incoming mail files (‘Incoming*’) are deleted
after a couple of days, not immediately. Mail Source
Customization. (New in Gnus 5.10.10 / No Gnus 0.8)
• Changes in summary and article mode
• There’s now only one variable that determines how HTML is
rendered: ‘mm-text-html-renderer’.
• Gnus now supports sticky article buffers. Those are article
buffers that are not reused when you select another article.
Sticky Articles.
• Gnus can selectively display ‘text/html’ articles with a WWW
browser with ‘K H’. MIME Commands.
• International host names (IDNA) can now be decoded inside
article bodies using ‘W i’ (‘gnus-summary-idna-message’).
This requires that GNU Libidn
(<http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/>) has been installed.
• The non-ASCII group names handling has been much improved.
The back ends that fully support non-ASCII group names are now
‘nntp’, ‘nnml’, and ‘nnrss’. Also the agent, the cache, and
the marks features work with those back ends. Non-ASCII
Group Names.
• Gnus now displays DNS master files sent as text/dns using
dns-mode.
• Gnus supports new limiting commands in the Summary buffer: ‘/
r’ (‘gnus-summary-limit-to-replied’) and ‘/ R’
(‘gnus-summary-limit-to-recipient’). Limiting.
• You can now fetch all ticked articles from the server using ‘Y
t’ (‘gnus-summary-insert-ticked-articles’). Summary
Generation Commands.
• Gnus supports a new sort command in the Summary buffer: ‘C-c
C-s C-t’ (‘gnus-summary-sort-by-recipient’). Summary
Sorting.
• S/MIME now features LDAP user certificate searches. You need
to configure the server in ‘smime-ldap-host-list’.
• URLs inside OpenPGP headers are retrieved and imported to your
PGP key ring when you click on them.
• Picons can be displayed right from the textual address, see
‘gnus-picon-style’. Picons.
• ANSI SGR control sequences can be transformed using ‘W A’.
ANSI sequences are used in some Chinese hierarchies for
highlighting articles (‘gnus-article-treat-ansi-sequences’).
• Gnus now MIME decodes articles even when they lack
"MIME-Version" header. This changes the default of
‘gnus-article-loose-mime’.
• ‘gnus-decay-scores’ can be a regexp matching score files. For
example, set it to ‘\\.ADAPT\\'’ and only adaptive score files
will be decayed. Score Decays.
• Strings prefixing to the ‘To’ and ‘Newsgroup’ headers in
summary lines when using ‘gnus-ignored-from-addresses’ can be
customized with ‘gnus-summary-to-prefix’ and
‘gnus-summary-newsgroup-prefix’. To From Newsgroups.
• You can replace MIME parts with external bodies. See
‘gnus-mime-replace-part’ and ‘gnus-article-replace-part’.
MIME Commands, Using MIME.
• The option ‘mm-fill-flowed’ can be used to disable treatment
of format=flowed messages. Also, flowed text is disabled when
sending inline PGP signed messages. Flowed text
(emacs-mime)Flowed text. (New in Gnus 5.10.7)
• Now the new command ‘S W’
(‘gnus-article-wide-reply-with-original’) for a wide reply in
the article buffer yanks a text that is in the active region,
if it is set, as well as the ‘R’
(‘gnus-article-reply-with-original’) command. Note that the
‘R’ command in the article buffer no longer accepts a prefix
argument, which was used to make it do a wide reply.
Article Keymap.
• The new command ‘C-h b’ (‘gnus-article-describe-bindings’)
used in the article buffer now shows not only the article
commands but also the real summary commands that are
accessible from the article buffer.
• Changes in Message mode
• Gnus now defaults to saving all outgoing messages in per-month
nnfolder archives.
• Gnus now supports the “hashcash” client puzzle anti-spam
mechanism. Use ‘(setq message-generate-hashcash t)’ to
enable. Hashcash.
• You can now drag and drop attachments to the Message buffer.
See ‘mml-dnd-protocol-alist’ and ‘mml-dnd-attach-options’.
MIME (message)MIME.
• The option ‘message-yank-empty-prefix’ now controls how empty
lines are prefixed in cited text. Insertion Variables
(message)Insertion Variables.
• Gnus uses narrowing to hide headers in Message buffers. The
‘References’ header is hidden by default. To make all headers
visible, use ‘(setq message-hidden-headers nil)’.
Message Headers (message)Message Headers.
• You can highlight different levels of citations like in the
article buffer. See ‘gnus-message-highlight-citation’.
• ‘auto-fill-mode’ is enabled by default in Message mode. See
‘message-fill-column’. Message Headers
(message)Various Message Variables.
• You can now store signature files in a special directory named
‘message-signature-directory’.
• The option ‘message-citation-line-format’ controls the format
of the "Whomever writes:" line. You need to set
‘message-citation-line-function’ to
‘message-insert-formatted-citation-line’ as well.
• Changes in Browse Server mode
• Gnus’ sophisticated subscription methods are now available in
Browse Server buffers as well using the variable
‘gnus-browse-subscribe-newsgroup-method’.
• Changes in back ends
• The nntp back end stores article marks in ‘~/News/marks’.
The directory can be changed using the (customizable) variable
‘nntp-marks-directory’, and marks can be disabled using the
(back end) variable ‘nntp-marks-is-evil’. The advantage of
this is that you can copy ‘~/News/marks’ (using rsync, scp or
whatever) to another Gnus installation, and it will realize
what articles you have read and marked. The data in
‘~/News/marks’ has priority over the same data in
‘~/.newsrc.eld’.
• You can import and export your RSS subscriptions from OPML
files. RSS.
• IMAP identity (RFC 2971) is supported.
By default, Gnus does not send any information about itself,
but you can customize it using the variable ‘nnimap-id’.
• The ‘nnrss’ back end now supports multilingual text.
Non-ASCII group names for the ‘nnrss’ groups are also
supported. RSS.
• Retrieving mail with POP3 is supported over SSL/TLS and with
StartTLS.
• The nnml back end allows other compression programs beside
‘gzip’ for compressed message files. Mail Spool.
• The nnml back end supports group compaction.
This feature, accessible via the functions
‘gnus-group-compact-group’ (‘G z’ in the group buffer) and
‘gnus-server-compact-server’ (‘z’ in the server buffer)
renumbers all articles in a group, starting from 1 and
removing gaps. As a consequence, you get a correct total
article count (until messages are deleted again).
• Appearance
• The tool bar has been updated to use GNOME icons. You can
also customize the tool bars: ‘M-x customize-apropos RET
-tool-bar$’ should get you started. (Only for Emacs, not in
XEmacs.)
• The tool bar icons are now (de)activated correctly in the
group buffer, see the variable ‘gnus-group-update-tool-bar’.
Its default value depends on your Emacs version.
• You can change the location of XEmacs’s toolbars in Gnus
buffers. See ‘gnus-use-toolbar’ and ‘message-use-toolbar’.
• Miscellaneous changes
• Having edited the select-method for the foreign server in the
server buffer is immediately reflected to the subscription of
the groups which use the server in question. For instance, if
you change ‘nntp-via-address’ into ‘bar.example.com’ from
‘foo.example.com’, Gnus will connect to the news host by way
of the intermediate host ‘bar.example.com’ from next time.
• The ‘all.SCORE’ file can be edited from the group buffer using
‘W e’.
• You can set ‘gnus-mark-copied-or-moved-articles-as-expirable’
to a non-‘nil’ value so that articles that have been read may
be marked as expirable automatically when copying or moving
them to a group that has auto-expire turned on. The default
is ‘nil’ and copying and moving of articles behave as before;
i.e., the expirable marks will be unchanged except that the
marks will be removed when copying or moving articles to a
group that has not turned auto-expire on. Expiring
Mail.
• NoCeM support has been removed.
• Carpal mode has been removed.
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