Quassia Gnus (Gnus Manual)

Next: Pterodactyl Gnus, Previous: Red Gnus, Up: New Features [Contents][Index]

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円’-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.

Next: Pterodactyl Gnus, Previous: Red Gnus, Up: New Features [Contents][Index]