gnus: Quassia Gnus

 
 11.2.8.4 Quassia Gnus
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 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.
      SeeGnus Unplugged, for the full story.
 
    • The ‘nndraft’ back end has returned, but works differently than
      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.  SeeSymbolic 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’.