Info Catalog gnus: September Gnus gnus: New Features gnus: Quassia Gnus

gnus: Red Gnus

 
 11.2.8.3 Red Gnus
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 New features in Gnus 5.4/5.5:
 
    • ‘nntp.el’ has been totally rewritten in an asynchronous fashion.
 
    • Article prefetching functionality has been moved up into Gnus
      (Asynchronous Fetching).
 
    • Scoring can now be performed with logical operators like ‘and’,
      ‘or’, ‘not’, and parent redirection (Advanced Scoring).
 
    • Article washing status can be displayed in the article mode line
      (Misc Article).
 
    • ‘gnus.el’ has been split into many smaller files.
 
    • Suppression of duplicate articles based on Message-ID can be done
      (Duplicate Suppression).
 
           (setq gnus-suppress-duplicates t)
 
    • New variables for specifying what score and adapt files are to be
      considered home score and adapt files (Home Score File)
      have been added.
 
    • ‘nndoc’ was rewritten to be easily extensible (Document
      Server Internals).
 
    • Groups can inherit group parameters from parent topics (Topic
      Parameters).
 
    • Article editing has been revamped and is now actually usable.
 
    • Signatures can be recognized in more intelligent fashions (
      Article Signature).
 
    • Summary pick mode has been made to look more ‘nn’-like.  Line
      numbers are displayed and the ‘.’ command can be used to pick
      articles (‘Pick and Read’).
 
    • Commands for moving the ‘.newsrc.eld’ from one server to another
      have been added (Changing Servers).
 
    • There’s a way now to specify that “uninteresting” fields be
      suppressed when generating lines in buffers (Advanced
      Formatting).
 
    • Several commands in the group buffer can be undone with ‘C-M-_’
      (Undo).
 
    • Scoring can be done on words using the new score type ‘w’ (
      Score File Format).
 
    • Adaptive scoring can be done on a Subject word-by-word basis (
      Adaptive Scoring).
 
           (setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring '(word))
 
    • Scores can be decayed (Score Decays).
 
           (setq gnus-decay-scores t)
 
    • Scoring can be performed using a regexp on the Date header.  The
      Date is normalized to compact ISO 8601 format first (Score
      File Format).
 
    • A new command has been added to remove all data on articles from
      the native server (Changing Servers).
 
    • A new command for reading collections of documents (‘nndoc’ with
      ‘nnvirtual’ on top) has been added—‘C-M-d’ (Really Various
      Summary Commands).
 
    • Process mark sets can be pushed and popped (Setting Process
      Marks).
 
    • A new mail-to-news back end makes it possible to post even when the
      NNTP server doesn’t allow posting (Mail-To-News Gateways).
 
    • A new back end for reading searches from Web search engines
      (“DejaNews”, “Alta Vista”, “InReference”) has been added (Web
      Searches).
 
    • Groups inside topics can now be sorted using the standard sorting
      functions, and each topic can be sorted independently (Topic
      Sorting).
 
    • Subsets of the groups can be sorted independently (‘Sorting
      Groups’).
 
    • Cached articles can be pulled into the groups (Summary
      Generation Commands).
 
    • Score files are now applied in a more reliable order (Score
      Variables).
 
    • Reports on where mail messages end up can be generated (
      Splitting Mail).
 
    • More hooks and functions have been added to remove junk from
      incoming mail before saving the mail (Washing Mail).
 
    • Emphasized text can be properly fontisized:
 

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