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New features in Gnus 5.4/5.5:
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`nntp.el' has been totally rewritten in an asynchronous fashion.
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Article prefetching functionality has been moved up into
Gnus (see section 3.11 Asynchronous Article Fetching).
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Scoring can now be performed with logical operators like
and
,
or
, not
, and parent redirection (see section 7.16 Advanced Scoring).
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Article washing status can be displayed in the
article mode line (see section 4.5 Misc Article).
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`gnus.el' has been split into many smaller files.
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Suppression of duplicate articles based on Message-ID can be done
(see section 3.29 Duplicate Suppression).
(setq gnus-suppress-duplicates t)
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New variables for specifying what score and adapt files are to be
considered home score and adapt files (see section 7.7 Home Score File) have
been added.
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nndoc
was rewritten to be easily extendable (see section 6.6.3.1 Document Server Internals).
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Groups can inherit group parameters from parent topics (see section 2.16.5 Topic Parameters).
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Article editing has been revamped and is now actually usable.
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Signatures can be recognized in more intelligent fashions
(see section 3.17.9 Article Signature).
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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
).
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Commands for moving the `.newsrc.eld' from one server to
another have been added (see section 1.7 Changing Servers).
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There's a way now to specify that "uninteresting" fields be suppressed
when generating lines in buffers (see section 8.4.3 Advanced Formatting).
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Several commands in the group buffer can be undone with C-M-_
(see section 8.13 Undo).
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Scoring can be done on words using the new score type
w
(see section 7.4 Score File Format).
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Adaptive scoring can be done on a Subject word-by-word basis
(see section 7.6 Adaptive Scoring).
(setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring '(word))
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Scores can be decayed (see section 7.17 Score Decays).
(setq gnus-decay-scores t)
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Scoring can be performed using a regexp on the Date header. The Date is
normalized to compact ISO 8601 format first (see section 7.4 Score File Format).
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A new command has been added to remove all data on articles from
the native server (see section 1.7 Changing Servers).
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A new command for reading collections of documents
(
nndoc
with nnvirtual
on top) has been added---C-M-d
(see section 3.26.4 Really Various Summary Commands).
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Process mark sets can be pushed and popped (see section 3.7.6 Setting Process Marks).
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A new mail-to-news back end makes it possible to post even when the NNTP
server doesn't allow posting (see section 6.6.5 Mail-To-News Gateways).
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A new back end for reading searches from Web search engines
(DejaNews, Alta Vista, InReference) has been added
(see section 6.4.2 Web Searches).
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Groups inside topics can now be sorted using the standard sorting
functions, and each topic can be sorted independently (see section 2.16.3 Topic Sorting).
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Subsets of the groups can be sorted independently (
Sorting
Groups
).
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Cached articles can be pulled into the groups (see section 3.26.3 Summary Generation Commands).
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Score files are now applied in a more reliable order (see section 7.3 Score Variables).
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Reports on where mail messages end up can be generated (see section 6.3.3 Splitting Mail).
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More hooks and functions have been added to remove junk from incoming
mail before saving the mail (see section 6.3.10 Washing Mail).
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Emphasized text can be properly fontisized:
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