10.2.9.4 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 section 6.9 Gnus 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-ID's.

• 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 section 8.3 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'-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.