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’-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.