10.2.9.2 September Gnus

New features in Gnus 5.2/5.3:

• A new message composition mode is used. All old customization variables for mail-mode, rnews-reply-mode and gnus-msg are now obsolete.

• Gnus is now able to generate sparse threads--threads where missing articles are represented by empty nodes (see section 3.9.1 Customizing Threading).

  (setq gnus-build-sparse-threads 'some)

• Outgoing articles are stored on a special archive server (see section 5.4 Archived Messages).

• Partial thread regeneration now happens when articles are referred.

• Gnus can make use of GroupLens predictions (see section 7.15 GroupLens).

• Picons (personal icons) can be displayed under XEmacs (see section 8.16.4 Picons).

• A trn-like tree buffer can be displayed (see section 3.24 Tree Display).

  (setq gnus-use-trees t)

• An nn-like pick-and-read minor mode is available for the summary buffers (see section 3.23.1 Pick and Read).

  (add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook 'gnus-pick-mode)

• In binary groups you can use a special binary minor mode (see section 3.23.2 Binary Groups).

• Groups can be grouped in a folding topic hierarchy (see section 2.16 Group Topics).

  (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)

• Gnus can re-send and bounce mail (see section 3.5.1 Summary Mail Commands).

• Groups can now have a score, and bubbling based on entry frequency is possible (see section 2.7 Group Score).

  (add-hook 'gnus-summary-exit-hook 'gnus-summary-bubble-group)

• Groups can be process-marked, and commands can be performed on groups of groups (see section 2.8 Marking Groups).

• Caching is possible in virtual groups.

• nndoc now understands all kinds of digests, mail boxes, rnews news batches, ClariNet briefs collections, and just about everything else (see section 6.6.3 Document Groups).

• Gnus has a new back end (nnsoup) to create/read SOUP packets (see section 6.6.4 SOUP).

• The Gnus cache is much faster.

• Groups can be sorted according to many criteria (see section 2.12 Sorting Groups).

• New group parameters have been introduced to set list-addresses and expiry times (see section 2.10 Group Parameters).

• All formatting specs allow specifying faces to be used (see section 8.4.5 Formatting Fonts).

• There are several more commands for setting/removing/acting on process marked articles on the M P submap (see section 3.7.6 Setting Process Marks).

• The summary buffer can be limited to show parts of the available articles based on a wide range of criteria. These commands have been bound to keys on the / submap (see section 3.8 Limiting).

• Articles can be made persistent with the * command (see section 3.13 Persistent Articles).

• All functions for hiding article elements are now toggles.

• Article headers can be buttonized (see section 3.17.4 Article Washing).

• All mail back ends support fetching articles by Message-ID.

• Duplicate mail can now be treated properly (see section 6.3.11 Duplicates).

• All summary mode commands are available directly from the article buffer (see section 4.4 Article Keymap).

• Frames can be part of gnus-buffer-configuration (see section 8.5 Window Layout).

• Mail can be re-scanned by a daemonic process (see section 8.11 Daemons).

• Gnus can make use of NoCeM files to weed out spam (see section 8.12 NoCeM).

  (setq gnus-use-nocem t)

• Groups can be made permanently visible (see section 2.11 Listing Groups).

  (setq gnus-permanently-visible-groups "^nnml:")

• Many new hooks have been introduced to make customizing easier.

• Gnus respects the Mail-Copies-To header.

• Threads can be gathered by looking at the References header (see section 3.9.1 Customizing Threading).

  (setq gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function 'gnus-gather-threads-by-references)

• Read articles can be stored in a special backlog buffer to avoid refetching (see section 3.14 Article Backlog).

  (setq gnus-keep-backlog 50)

• A clean copy of the current article is always stored in a separate buffer to allow easier treatment.

• Gnus can suggest where to save articles (see section 3.15 Saving Articles).

• Gnus doesn't have to do as much prompting when saving (see section 3.15 Saving Articles).

  (setq gnus-prompt-before-saving t)

• gnus-uu can view decoded files asynchronously while fetching articles (see section 3.16.5.2 Other Decode Variables).

  (setq gnus-uu-grabbed-file-functions 'gnus-uu-grab-view)

• Filling in the article buffer now works properly on cited text (see section 3.17.4 Article Washing).

• Hiding cited text adds buttons to toggle hiding, and how much cited text to hide is now customizable (see section 3.17.3 Article Hiding).

  (setq gnus-cited-lines-visible 2)

• Boring headers can be hidden (see section 3.17.3 Article Hiding).

• Default scoring values can now be set from the menu bar.

• Further syntax checking of outgoing articles have been added.