From: Dave Love Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:41:48 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Gnus X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.90~1506 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f393cf9065adbef71c58ea78a16569502d492f36;p=emacs.git Gnus --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 545b0a79ded..a237261220c 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -31,7 +31,58 @@ support 64-bit executables. See etc/MACHINES for instructions. * Changes in Emacs 21.1 -* When your terminal can't display characters from some of the ISO +** Gnus changes. + +The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in +four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment, +internationalization and mail-fetching. + +*** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the +many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone. + +If you used procmail like in + +(setq nnmail-use-procmail t) +(setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail) +(setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/") +(setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in") + +this now has changed to + +(setq mail-sources + '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/" + :suffix ".in"))) + +More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods -> +Getting Mail -> Mail Sources + +*** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of +Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details. + +*** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too +many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables. + +*** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be +called to position point. + +*** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in +summary buffers and NOV files. + +*** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number +of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added. + +*** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now work in a +subtly different manner. + +*** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive +and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with +ever-changing layouts. + +*** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap. + +*** There is image support. + +** When your terminal can't display characters from some of the ISO 8859 character sets but can display Latin-1, you can display more-or-less mnemonic sequences of ASCII/Latin-1 characters instead of empty boxes (under a window system) or question marks (not under a