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1 | * COPYRIGHT |
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3 | Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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5 | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, |
6 | are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright | |
7 | notice and this notice are preserved. | |
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9 | * Changes in MH-E 7.85 |
10 | ||
11 | Version 7.85 heralds a migration of the CVS repository from | |
12 | SourceForge to Savannah only for those files that were already part of | |
13 | Emacs. As a result, two incompatibilities were introduced with this | |
14 | release: the location of MH-E in the load-path has changed, and | |
15 | mh-e-autoloads.el was renamed to mh-autoloads.el. While this migration | |
16 | will benefit maintainers, it will also benefit users: CVS Emacs users | |
17 | will not have to check out MH-E separately and welcome faster MH-E | |
18 | updates, and CVS MH-E users will welcome faster MH-E updates from | |
19 | Emacs developers. Read section CVS MH-E INSTALL in the README for | |
20 | details. | |
21 | ||
22 | MH-E now works on a Mac. See section INSTALL in the README for details. | |
23 | ||
24 | ** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.85 | |
25 | ||
26 | *** Prompts Now Follow Current Conventions | |
27 | ||
28 | Instead of "Prompt: [<default>] ", the prompts now look like "Prompt | |
29 | (default: <default>): ". | |
30 | ||
31 | *** Face Variable Names Now Follow Current Conventions | |
32 | ||
33 | The -face suffix has been dropped from all face names. | |
34 | ||
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35 | *** Default Identity Prevents Insertion of Auto Fields |
36 | ||
37 | Auto insertion of an identity now occurs even when the default | |
38 | identity is used (closes SF #1204506). | |
39 | ||
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40 | *** mh-compose-forward and Default Message Number |
41 | ||
42 | mh-compose-forward will now default to the sent message in the sent | |
43 | folder and the `cur' message in other folders. It also takes ranges of | |
44 | messages and can include multiple messages at a time (closes SF | |
45 | #1205890). | |
46 | ||
47 | *** mh-customize Uses Group mh, Not mh-e | |
48 | ||
49 | The `mh' customization group alias has been deleted to avoid some | |
50 | problems that were found (closes SF #1213716). | |
51 | ||
52 | *** font-lock Error in mh-letter-mode | |
53 | ||
54 | An error in MH-E was introduced as a result of a change in CVS Emacs. | |
55 | This has been fixed (closes SF #1241017). | |
56 | ||
57 | \f | |
58 | ||
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59 | * Changes in MH-E 7.84 |
60 | ||
61 | Version 7.84 contains no user-visible changes. This version | |
62 | incorporates changes made in CVS Emacs such as the removal of some | |
63 | deprecated software. | |
64 | ||
65 | * Changes in MH-E 7.83 | |
66 | ||
67 | Version 7.83 fixes a handful of bugs, adds colors to buttons for | |
68 | signed or encrypted messages, and contains some documentation changes | |
69 | related to the upcoming release of the manual. Some options were moved | |
70 | to other customization groups as a result. | |
71 | ||
72 | While not related to this release, the MH-E mailing lists are now | |
73 | gatewayed at gmane.org (closes SF #979308). | |
74 | ||
75 | ** New Variables in MH-E 7.83 | |
76 | ||
77 | *** mh-show-pgg-bad-face | |
78 | ||
79 | Face used to highlight a bad PGG signature. | |
80 | ||
81 | *** mh-show-pgg-good-face | |
82 | ||
83 | Face used to highlight a good PGG signature. | |
84 | ||
85 | *** mh-show-pgg-unknown-face | |
86 | ||
87 | Face used to highlight a PGG signature whose status is unknown. This | |
88 | face is also used for a signature when the signer is untrusted. | |
89 | ||
90 | ** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.83 | |
91 | ||
92 | *** Whitespace in pick Expressions | |
93 | ||
94 | The "C-u / s RET" command now works. In addition, you can now add | |
95 | whitespace to any of the limiting (/) commands (closes SF #1122655). | |
96 | ||
97 | *** auto-mode-alist Updated | |
98 | ||
99 | MH-E originally updated auto-mode-alist to set the major mode of | |
100 | drafts. Now that we explicitly set the mode, there is no reason to do | |
101 | this, and this behavior caused problems for people who didn't use MH-E | |
102 | who were editing files that looked like MH message files (closes SF | |
103 | #1032353). | |
104 | ||
105 | *** mh-show-unquote-From Fails (read-only buffer) | |
106 | ||
107 | MH-E quotes the "From " header field that is inserted by MTAs. | |
108 | However, it was trying to do this in a read-only buffer. This has been | |
109 | fixed (closes SF #1089870). | |
110 | ||
111 | *** rmmproc Refile Complains No Such Message | |
112 | ||
113 | MH-E would get confused about which folder to delete messages from if | |
114 | you were refiling and deleting messages at the same time. This has | |
115 | been fixed (closes SF #1023959). | |
116 | ||
117 | *** ! Doesn't Do Regions | |
118 | ||
119 | Now it does (closes SF #1046330). | |
120 | ||
121 | *** Swish Fixes | |
122 | ||
123 | Items in swish indexes that aren't mail messages are now handled more | |
124 | gracefully. | |
125 | ||
126 | *** Spamassassin Fixes | |
127 | ||
128 | If you use spamassassin, there was an error when you tried to junk | |
129 | mail if the option mh-junk-background was set. This has been fixed. | |
130 | ||
131 | *** Mairix Support | |
132 | ||
133 | Indexing now compatible with Mairix version 0.12 and later. | |
134 | ||
135 | \f | |
136 | ||
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137 | * Changes in MH-E 7.82 |
138 | ||
5e4c34ce | 139 | Version 7.82 continues to address the saga surrounding the use of CL |
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140 | macros in CVS Emacs and fixes the auto-detection of vanilla MH (closes |
141 | SF #1014781). | |
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143 | * Changes in MH-E 7.81 |
144 | ||
145 | Version 7.81 fixes a `wrong-type-argument' argument error that | |
146 | sometimes occurred when processing the Message-ID, adds the "; | |
147 | (mh-toggle-mh-decode-mime-flag)" command, and uses ":default" instead | |
148 | of "default" in `mh-identity-handlers' to avoid problems with | |
149 | "Default:" as a user defined field. If you have modified | |
150 | `mh-identity-handlers' in your .emacs, you'll need to rename "default" | |
151 | to ":default". This release also corrects the release numbering; the | |
152 | previous version number was intended to be 7.80. | |
153 | ||
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155 | ||
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156 | * Changes in MH-E 7.4.80 |
157 | ||
158 | Version 7.4.80 now supports GNU mailutils, S/MIME, picons, | |
159 | which-func-mode, has an improved interface for hiding header fields, | |
160 | improves upon the MH variant detection, and contains many bug fixes. | |
161 | Those of you familiar with the GNU version numbering schemes will | |
162 | recognize this as an alpha release. This does not reflect on the | |
163 | quality of this release which is as high as it has always been. | |
164 | Although we are not ready to release 8.0, we want you to have access | |
165 | to the work that has been hiding in CVS. At the same time we want to | |
166 | make it clear that there are incompatible changes with previous | |
167 | versions. | |
168 | ||
169 | We are planning to release the long-awaited manual update synchronized | |
170 | with version 8.0. We are using documentation from the manual in the | |
171 | docstrings which is hoped to make "C-h f (describe-function)" really | |
172 | useful and create a seamless experience when switching back and forth | |
173 | between the manual and the docstrings. This has been done in about | |
174 | half of the variables and functions in this version. | |
175 | ||
176 | The writing of the manual has revealed a few inconsistencies in the | |
177 | software whose fixes have resulted in incompatible changes, and there | |
178 | may well be more. So, unlike version 7 which was chock full of new | |
179 | features, version 8's strengths will include complete documentation | |
180 | and higher quality. | |
181 | ||
182 | ** New Features in MH-E 7.4.80 | |
183 | ||
184 | *** GNU mailutils Support | |
185 | ||
186 | MH-E now supports GNU mailutils 0.4 and higher versions. | |
187 | ||
188 | *** S/MIME Support | |
189 | ||
190 | MH-E now supports S/MIME using Gnus 5.10.6 or higher. | |
191 | ||
192 | *** Picon Support | |
193 | ||
194 | In addition to the other methods of displaying an icon for the sender | |
195 | of a message, MH-E can now display images from a picon directory. The | |
196 | directory search path is found in the `mh-picon-directory-list' | |
197 | variable. More documentation is found in the "facedb" sections in the | |
198 | xfaces man page. [NOTE: need to make mh-picon-directory-list an option | |
199 | and add xfaces facedb documentation to it.] | |
200 | ||
201 | *** X-Image-URL Updates | |
202 | ||
203 | Now support the use of `curl' and `fetch' as alternatives to `wget' to | |
204 | obtain the image. The display of images are controlled with the | |
205 | `mh-show-use-xface-flag' option while the `mh-fetch-x-image-url' | |
206 | option controls how the images are fetched. | |
207 | ||
208 | WARNING: There are security concerns with this feature. Please read | |
209 | the documentation for these options carefully before changing the | |
210 | default. | |
211 | ||
212 | *** Updates to mh-identity-list | |
213 | ||
214 | Note that the field names found in `mh-identity-list' that refer to | |
215 | the fields in `mh-identity-handlers' have changed in an incompatible | |
216 | way from 7.4.4. In general, the symbolic names now have a ":" prefix | |
217 | to avoid collisions with header fields. Before starting Emacs, edit | |
218 | your .emacs and insert ":" before "signature" if you have defined it. | |
219 | ||
220 | You can change your attribution in replies with the new "Attribution | |
221 | Verb" field, and you can set your default GPG user ID with the "GPG | |
222 | key ID" field. | |
223 | ||
224 | Signatures can now be read from the `mh-signature-file-name' variable, | |
225 | or come from a function, in addition to a named file. If you write | |
226 | your own function, variables that you can use include | |
227 | `mh-signature-separator-regexp', `mh-signature-separator', | |
228 | and `mh-signature-separator-p'. | |
229 | ||
230 | The handling of these fields has been moved into a new | |
231 | `mh-identity-handlers' option, an alist of fields (strings) and | |
232 | handlers (functions). Strings are lowercase. Use ":signature" for | |
233 | Signature and ":pgg-default-user-id" for GPG Key ID. The function | |
234 | associated with the string "default" is used if no other functions are | |
235 | appropriate. For this reason, don't name a header field "Default". | |
236 | ||
237 | If you point your signature at a vCard file with a vcf suffix, then it | |
238 | will be incorporated as a vCard body part (closes SF #802723). | |
239 | ||
240 | *** Catchup Command | |
241 | ||
242 | There is a new "F c (mh-catchup)" command that marks all unread | |
243 | messages in the current folder as read. | |
244 | ||
245 | *** Change Content-Type Renderer on the Fly in MH-Show Buffer | |
246 | ||
247 | This has been implemented by adding the key binding "K e | |
248 | (mh-display-with-external-viewer)". For inline text/html parts, | |
249 | buttons aren't displayed by default. In that case use "K t | |
250 | (mh-toggle-mime-buttons)" to display the button before viewing it with | |
251 | an external browser (closes SF #839318). | |
252 | ||
253 | *** Use which-func-mode to Display Folder in Index Mode | |
254 | ||
255 | Turning on `which-func-mode' displays the folder name of the message | |
256 | under the cursor in index folders (closes SF #855520). | |
257 | ||
258 | *** Render Signature and vCard in Italics | |
259 | ||
260 | This has been implemented. Use `mh-show-signature-face' to customize | |
261 | the face used (closes SF #802722). | |
262 | ||
263 | *** New Print Map | |
264 | ||
265 | There is now a keymap for the printing functions whose prefix is "P". | |
266 | The command "l (mh-print-msg)" has been replaced with "P l". Other new | |
267 | functions in this keymap include: | |
268 | ||
269 | P A mh-ps-print-toggle-mime | |
270 | P C mh-ps-print-toggle-color | |
271 | P F mh-ps-print-toggle-faces | |
272 | P M mh-ps-print-toggle-mime | |
273 | P f mh-ps-print-msg-file | |
274 | P l mh-print-msg | |
275 | P p mh-ps-print-msg | |
276 | P s mh-ps-print-msg-show | |
277 | ||
278 | *** Draft Buffer Keymap Changes | |
279 | ||
280 | The keymap in the draft buffer has been modified slightly. The old | |
281 | anonymous ftp and tar composition commands have been reinstated and | |
282 | letter signing and encrypting keymaps have been added. | |
283 | ||
284 | The type of signing or encryption has been generalized so the method | |
285 | is now an option rather than a part of the function's name. The option | |
286 | is `mh-mml-method-default' and choices include PGP (MIME), PGP, | |
287 | S/MIME, or none. | |
288 | ||
289 | Key 7.4.4 7.4.80 | |
290 | ||
291 | C-c RET C-e mh-mml-secure-message-encrypt-pgpmime | |
292 | mh-mml-secure-message-encrypt | |
293 | C-c RET C-s mh-mml-secure-message-sign-pgpmime | |
294 | - | |
295 | C-c RET C-g - mh-mhn-compose-anon-ftp | |
296 | C-c RET C-n - mh-mml-unsecure-message | |
297 | C-c RET C-s - mh-mml-secure-message-sign | |
298 | C-c RET C-t - mh-mhn-compose-external-compressed-tar | |
299 | C-c RET C-s mh-mml-secure-message-sign-pgpmime | |
300 | mh-mml-secure-message-sign | |
301 | C-c RET C-x - mh-mhn-compose-external-type | |
302 | C-c RET e mh-mml-secure-message-encrypt-pgpmime | |
303 | Prefix Command | |
304 | C-c RET e e - mh-mml-secure-message-encrypt | |
305 | C-c RET e s - mh-mml-secure-message-signencrypt | |
306 | C-c RET g - mh-mhn-compose-anon-ftp | |
307 | C-c RET n - mh-mml-unsecure-message | |
308 | C-c RET s mh-mml-secure-message-sign-pgpmime | |
309 | Prefix Command | |
310 | C-c RET s e - mh-mml-secure-message-signencrypt | |
311 | C-c RET s s - mh-mml-secure-message-sign | |
312 | C-c RET t - mh-mhn-compose-external-compressed-tar | |
313 | C-c RET x - mh-mhn-compose-external-type | |
314 | ||
315 | *** Speedbar: Highlight Folders With Unseen | |
316 | ||
317 | The speedbar now renders the folders with unseen messages in boldface | |
318 | which makes them easier to identify (closes SF #623369). | |
319 | ||
320 | *** Quick Key Help | |
321 | ||
322 | The "? (mh-help)" function now displays the help in its own buffer | |
323 | called *MH-E Help* (closes SF #493740 and SF #656631). | |
324 | ||
325 | *** New Startup File mh-e-autoloads.el | |
326 | ||
327 | If you are installing MH-E yourself, then you can replace any | |
328 | autoloads you may have with "(require 'mh-e-autoloads.el)". See the | |
329 | README for details. | |
330 | ||
331 | *** Glimpse Support Removed | |
332 | ||
333 | Since glimpse isn't free, we cannot mention it. Glimpse has been | |
334 | removed from the option `mh-indexer-choices' (closes SF #831276). | |
335 | ||
336 | *** mh-msg-is-in-seq Update | |
337 | ||
338 | Can now specify an alternate message number to "S s | |
339 | (mh-msg-is-in-seq)" with a prefix argument. | |
340 | ||
341 | ** New Variables in MH-E 7.4.80 | |
342 | ||
343 | Variables that have been added to MH-E that have not been discussed | |
344 | elsewhere are listed here. | |
345 | ||
346 | *** mail-citation-hook | |
347 | ||
348 | Hook for modifying a citation just inserted in the mail buffer. | |
349 | ||
350 | *** mh-alias-reloaded-hook | |
351 | ||
352 | Invoked by `mh-alias-reload' after reloading aliases. | |
353 | ||
354 | *** mh-auto-fields-prompt-flag | |
355 | ||
356 | Non-nil means to prompt before sending if fields in | |
357 | `mh-auto-fields-list' are inserted. | |
358 | ||
359 | *** mh-default-folder-for-message-function | |
360 | ||
361 | Function to select a default folder for refiling or `Fcc'. | |
362 | ||
363 | *** mh-forward-hook | |
364 | ||
365 | Invoked on the forwarded letter by "f (mh-forward)". | |
366 | ||
367 | *** mh-invisible-header-fields-default | |
368 | ||
369 | List of hidden header fields. The header fields listed in this option | |
370 | are hidden, although you can check off any field that you would like | |
371 | to see. Header fields that you would like to hide that aren't listed | |
372 | can be added to the `mh-invisible-header-fields' option (closes SF | |
373 | #752045). | |
374 | ||
375 | The option `mh-visible-header-fields' has been deleted. | |
376 | ||
377 | *** mh-junk-background | |
378 | ||
379 | If on, spam programs are run in background. This used to be the | |
380 | default behavior but this could overwhelm a system if many messages | |
381 | were black- or whitelisted at once. The spam programs are now run in | |
382 | the foreground, but this option can be used to put them back in the | |
383 | background. | |
384 | ||
385 | *** mh-signature-separator-flag | |
386 | ||
387 | Non-nil means a signature separator should be inserted. It is not | |
388 | recommended that you change this option since various mail user | |
389 | agents, including MH-E, use the separator to present the signature | |
390 | differently, and to suppress the signature when replying or yanking a | |
391 | letter into a draft. | |
392 | ||
393 | *** mh-variant | |
394 | ||
395 | Specifies the variant used by MH-E. The default setting of this option | |
396 | is `Auto-detect' which means that MH-E will automatically choose the | |
397 | first of nmh, MH, or GNU mailutils that it finds in the directories | |
398 | listed in `mh-path', `mh-sys-path', and `exec-path'. If, for example, | |
399 | you have both nmh and mailutils installed and `mh-variant-in-use' was | |
400 | initialized to nmh but you want to use mailutils, then you can set | |
401 | this option to `mailutils'. | |
402 | ||
403 | When this variable is changed, MH-E resets `mh-progs', `mh-lib', | |
404 | `mh-lib-progs', `mh-flists-present-flag', and `mh-variant-in-use' | |
405 | accordingly. | |
406 | ||
407 | If you've set these variables in your .emacs, it is strongly suggested | |
408 | that you comment them out. The MH detection code has been completely | |
409 | rewritten and it is very likely that you no longer to set them and | |
410 | their setting may confuse other MH-E settings. | |
411 | ||
412 | ** Variables Deleted in MH-E | |
413 | ||
414 | Variables that have been removed from MH-E that have not been | |
415 | discussed elsewhere are listed here. | |
416 | ||
417 | *** mh-alias-system-aliases | |
418 | ||
419 | System definitions should not be a user option. | |
420 | ||
421 | *** mh-junk-mail-folder | |
422 | ||
423 | Since this variable can accept values other than folder names, it was | |
424 | renamed to `mh-junk-disposition' to more accurately reflect the content. | |
425 | ||
426 | ** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.4.80 | |
427 | ||
428 | Many bugs were fixed in this version that aren't listed below. | |
429 | ||
430 | *** mh-extract-rejected-mail Can't Do MIME (and Other Formats) | |
431 | ||
432 | Now handles qmail and exim bounces (addresses SF #404965). | |
433 | ||
434 | *** mh-rmail Hangs in XEmacs | |
435 | ||
436 | We've determined that MH-E is incompatible with some versions of | |
437 | XEmacs (21.5.9-21.5.16). More recent versions work fine. If you think | |
438 | our list is too broad, please let us know which version of XEmacs you | |
439 | are using (closes SF #644321). | |
440 | ||
441 | *** Inconsistent Prompts | |
442 | ||
443 | Prompt formats are now consistent throughout the application (closes | |
444 | SF #730470). | |
445 | ||
446 | *** Empty Shell Comments Confuse mh-mhn-directive-present-p | |
447 | ||
448 | If you had a string that matched the regexp "^# $" in your draft, it | |
449 | would cause an error. This has been fixed (closes SF #762458). | |
450 | ||
451 | *** Quote Hashes When mhbuild Directives Used | |
452 | ||
453 | A related bug, if you had empty shell comments but inserted your own | |
454 | directives, you'd get another error from mhbuild. This has been fixed | |
455 | by quoting the hash ("^# $") like this "##" before submitting to | |
456 | mhbuild (closes SF #762464). | |
457 | ||
458 | *** Inconsistent Usage in Scan Formatting Variables | |
459 | ||
460 | The variables: | |
461 | ||
462 | mh-note-cur | |
463 | mh-note-deleted | |
464 | mh-note-dist | |
465 | mh-note-forw | |
466 | mh-note-refiled | |
467 | mh-note-repl | |
468 | mh-note-seq | |
469 | ||
470 | used to contain strings. Although only the first character was read, | |
471 | the entire string would be inserted which may have caused problems. | |
472 | These variables have been converted to character constants so that | |
473 | only a single character can be inserted into the scan line (closes SF | |
474 | #770772). | |
475 | ||
476 | *** Bad Handling of Aliases That Conflict With Local User Names | |
477 | ||
478 | If a user name existed both locally and in the aliases file, the local | |
479 | user would be flashed, but the alias would be used when sending. This | |
480 | has been fixed so that the user name that is flashed is the same as | |
481 | the name that is sent (closes SF #772595). | |
482 | ||
483 | *** Args out of range | |
484 | ||
485 | In rare and non-reproducible circumstances, compilation sometimes | |
486 | threw an "Args out of range" error. Nonetheless, this has been fixed | |
487 | (closes SF #806577). | |
488 | ||
489 | *** mh-forward hard-codes '-mime' Switch on nmh | |
490 | ||
491 | Added new option `mh-compose-forward-as-mime-flag' that controls whether | |
492 | messages are forwarded as MIME attachments (closes SF #827203). | |
493 | ||
494 | *** Not Re-prompted to Sign After Pass Phrase Typo | |
495 | ||
496 | If there were errors when sending a signed message (like getting the | |
497 | pass phrase wrong), the MML markup remained in the draft buffer. The | |
498 | draft buffer is now restored if there is an error (closes SF #839303). | |
499 | ||
500 | *** Font-lock Gets Confused in MH-Letter Buffer | |
501 | ||
502 | If a user manually moved the cursor to the end of the header field | |
503 | separator line (by mouse click or keyboard navigation) and hit Enter | |
504 | to start typing their message, any line in the body with a colon would | |
505 | be fontified with a gray background. This has been fixed (closes SF | |
506 | #855479). | |
507 | ||
508 | *** mh-refile-msg Fails to Suggest Folder for Empty Message | |
509 | ||
510 | If you received a message with an empty body from someone who is | |
511 | listed in your aliases file, "o (mh-refile-msg)" failed to suggest the | |
512 | correct folder. This has been fixed (closes SF #917096). | |
513 | ||
514 | *** Error Visiting Folder With no Unseen Messages | |
515 | ||
516 | If you visited a folder without unseen messages and the option "flist: | |
517 | -noshowzero" is present in your ~/.mh_profile, you'd get an error. This | |
518 | has been fixed (closes SF #933954). | |
519 | ||
520 | \f | |
521 | ||
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522 | * Changes in MH-E 7.4.4 |
523 | ||
524 | Version 7.4.4 addresses programmatic issues from the FSF and prepares | |
bf247b6e | 525 | MH-E for inclusion into an impending GNU Emacs release (22.1). There |
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526 | are no user-visible changes (unless you are using XEmacs on DOS or |
527 | don't have the cl package installed). Filenames are now unique in | |
528 | their first 8 characters (DOS 8.3 requirement). The runtime dependency | |
529 | on the cl package has been removed. Desktop saving and restoration | |
530 | code moved here from desktop.el. | |
531 | ||
532 | * Changes in MH-E 7.4.3 | |
533 | ||
f0d73c14 | 534 | Version 7.4.3 fixes the problem where `mh-identity-list' was not getting |
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535 | set from .emacs. |
536 | ||
537 | * Changes in MH-E 7.4.2 | |
538 | ||
539 | Version 7.4.2 fixes the accidental dependence on nmh (closes SF | |
540 | #791021). | |
541 | ||
542 | * Changes in MH-E 7.4.1 | |
543 | ||
544 | Version 7.4.1 fixes the Makefile so it no longer tries to compile | |
545 | mh-unit.el. | |
546 | ||
547 | * Changes in MH-E 7.4 | |
548 | ||
549 | Version 7.4 contains many new useful features including arbitrary MH | |
550 | range handling, new draft features such as draft form editing, as well | |
551 | as sequence propagation and manipulation. We've also fixed bugs and | |
552 | added a handful of new variables. | |
553 | ||
554 | ** New Features in MH-E 7.4 | |
555 | ||
556 | *** Add Arbitrary Ranges to MH-E UI | |
557 | ||
558 | MH-E now handles any legal MH range (such as last:5 or 4 8 10-12) | |
559 | wherever you're prompted for a message number or sequence (closes SF | |
560 | #728638). | |
561 | ||
562 | *** Remove Prompting in mh-send | |
563 | ||
564 | Brian Reid's original mhe didn't do prompting anywhere but used forms | |
565 | instead. While we won't go that far, we eliminated prompting where a | |
566 | form is already involved, such as in composing a message. | |
567 | ||
568 | The new customization variable `mh-compose-prompt-flag' can be set to | |
569 | t to get the original behavior (closes SF #745622). | |
570 | ||
571 | *** Use TAB to Switch Fields in Header | |
572 | ||
573 | When composing a message, TAB and SHIFT-TAB can be used to move | |
574 | quickly between header fields. The new customization variable, | |
575 | `mh-compose-skipped-header-fields', contains a list of header fields | |
576 | that are skipped and truncated if they are too long (closes SF | |
577 | #745627). | |
578 | ||
579 | *** Alias Completion in Composition Buffer | |
580 | ||
581 | Aliases can be completed in the draft with "M-TAB | |
582 | (mh-letter-complete)". Or, if the customization variable | |
583 | `mh-compose-space-does-completion-flag' is set to t, then a "SPC | |
584 | (mh-letter-complete-or-space)" with do the same thing. If | |
585 | `mh-alias-flash-on-comma' is non-nil, ", (mh-letter-confirm-address)" | |
586 | will show the alias expansion in the minibuffer (closes SF #745634). | |
587 | ||
588 | *** Auto Fields Should be Inserted During Send | |
589 | ||
590 | Fields that were inserted by the multiple personality code when the | |
591 | draft was sent now insert the header fields when the draft is composed | |
592 | to give you a chance to edit them (closes SF #747890). | |
593 | ||
594 | *** mh-index-tick-messages | |
595 | ||
596 | The command "F ' (mh-index-ticked-messages)" creates a buffer with all | |
597 | messages ticked with "' (mh-toggle-tick)" in the folders listed in the | |
598 | new customization variable `mh-index-ticked-messages-folders'. Chances | |
599 | are that if you set `mh-index-new-messages-folders', you'll want to | |
600 | set `mh-index-ticked-messages-folders' accordingly. | |
601 | ||
602 | In addition, a general function, "F q (mh-index-sequenced-messages)" | |
603 | has been provided that displays messages in the `mh-unseen-seq' in the | |
604 | folders listed `mh-index-new-messages-folders', unless a prefix | |
605 | argument is given, in which case you can provide both a list of | |
606 | folders and a sequence (closes SF #718833). | |
607 | ||
608 | *** Narrow to Region | |
609 | ||
610 | If there is a region, "/ r (mh-narrow-to-range)" will only consider | |
611 | those messages in the region. In addition, there is now a stack of | |
612 | folder limits which can be popped with "/ w (mh-widen)". With a prefix | |
613 | arg, all the restrictions are popped off of the stack (closes SF | |
614 | #732823). | |
615 | ||
616 | *** Narrow to Ticked Sequence | |
617 | ||
618 | The buffer can now be narrowed to ticked messages with "S ' | |
619 | (mh-narrow-to-tick)" (closes SF #732825). | |
620 | ||
621 | *** Display Multiple Buttons for multipart/alternative | |
622 | ||
623 | A new customizable variable, | |
624 | `mh-display-buttons-for-alternatives-flag', was added to display | |
625 | buttons for the alternatives. The default value is nil to retain the | |
626 | current behavior (closes SF #741288). | |
627 | ||
628 | *** Identity Menu Changes | |
629 | ||
630 | A menu item has been added that inserts custom fields if the To or Cc | |
631 | header fields match `mh-auto-fields-list'. | |
632 | ||
633 | ** New Variables in MH-E 7.4 | |
634 | ||
635 | *** mh-alias-local-users-prefix | |
636 | ||
637 | This string is prepended to the real names of users from the passwd | |
638 | file. If nil, use the username string unmodified instead of the real | |
639 | name from the gecos field of the passwd file. | |
640 | ||
641 | *** mh-alias-passwd-gecos-comma-separator-flag | |
642 | ||
643 | Non-nil means the gecos field in the passwd file uses comma as a | |
644 | separator. Used to construct aliases for users in the passwd file." | |
645 | ||
646 | *** mh-interpret-number-as-range-flag | |
647 | ||
648 | Non-nil means interpret a number as a range. If the variable is | |
649 | non-nil, and you use an integer, N, when asked for a range to scan, | |
650 | then MH-E uses the range "last:N". | |
651 | ||
652 | *** mh-kill-folder-suppress-prompt-hook | |
653 | ||
654 | This new hook is invoked at the beginning of the `F k | |
655 | (mh-kill-folder)' command. It is a list of functions to be called, | |
656 | with no arguments, which should return a value of non-nil if you | |
657 | should not be asked if you're sure that you want to remove the folder. | |
658 | This is useful for folders that are easily regenerated. | |
659 | ||
660 | The default value of `mh-index-p' suppresses the prompt on folders | |
661 | generated by an index search. | |
662 | ||
663 | WARNING: Use this hook with care. If there is a bug in your hook which | |
664 | returns t on +inbox and you hit `F k' by accident in the +inbox | |
665 | buffer, you will not be happy. | |
666 | ||
667 | *** mh-refile-preserves-sequences-flag | |
668 | ||
669 | Non-nil means that sequences are preserved when messages are refiled. | |
670 | If this variable is non-nil and a message belonging to a sequence | |
671 | other than cur or Previous-Sequence (see mh-profile 5) is refiled then | |
672 | it is put in the same sequence in the destination folder. Additional | |
673 | sequences that should not to be preserved can be specified by setting | |
674 | `mh-unpropagated-sequences' appropriately. | |
675 | ||
676 | *** mh-visible-header-fields | |
677 | ||
678 | Customize this instead of `mh-visible-headers', which is now a defvar. | |
679 | This was done to mimic the relationship between | |
680 | `mh-invisible-header-fields' and `mh-invisible-fields'. | |
681 | ||
682 | ** Variables Deleted in MH-E 7.4 | |
683 | ||
684 | *** mh-visible-headers | |
685 | ||
686 | See the paragraph for `mh-visible-header-fields' above. | |
687 | ||
688 | ** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.4 | |
689 | ||
690 | *** Aliases Constantly Reloaded | |
691 | ||
692 | The system aliases are not loaded as often as they were, so the | |
693 | completion speed has been dramatically improved if your passwd file is | |
694 | large (closes SF #693859). | |
695 | ||
696 | *** Folders in MH-Index View Not Saved | |
697 | ||
698 | When you perform a search to produce an MH-Index buffer, the folders | |
699 | that contain the messages are shown. If the MH-Index buffer was | |
700 | deleted, or Emacs was restarted and the corresponding folder | |
701 | rescanned, the folder information would be lost. This has been fixed | |
702 | by saving the information in a file called ".mhe_index" (closes SF | |
703 | #701762). | |
704 | ||
705 | *** Ticking Messages in +mhe-index/new | |
706 | ||
707 | If a new message in a buffer created by "F n" was ticked (with "'"), | |
708 | the message would not be added to the tick sequence in the source | |
709 | folder. This has been fixed so that any sequence changes in any index | |
710 | folder (from within MH-E of course) are now reflected back to the | |
711 | corresponding source folder (closes SF #709664). | |
712 | ||
713 | *** Custom Vars Set by a Function | |
714 | ||
715 | The default setting of customization variable `mh-summary-height' is | |
716 | now `nil' which means MH-E will change the size dynamically according | |
717 | to the size of the frame (closes SF #723267). | |
718 | ||
719 | *** Folder Completion Slow | |
720 | ||
721 | The first folder completion was very slow. This has been fixed (closes | |
722 | SF #730426). | |
723 | ||
724 | *** Tick Sequence Persistent When Refiled | |
725 | ||
726 | Sequences are now preserved when messages are refiled (closes SF | |
727 | #737128). | |
728 | ||
729 | *** Auto-inserted Header Fields Inconsistent | |
730 | ||
731 | For consistency, all automatically inserted header fields (such as | |
732 | X-Mailer and X-Face) are added when the draft is first presented to | |
733 | you. This also gives you a chance to edit or delete them if necessary | |
734 | (closes SF #745624). Note that we would be distressed if you deleted | |
735 | the X-Mailer field. | |
736 | ||
737 | *** Toolbar Spec Error | |
738 | ||
739 | The following message appeared when displaying a message in XEmacs: | |
740 | ||
741 | Signaling: (error "Toolbar spec must be list or nil" ) | |
742 | ||
743 | This has been fixed (closes SF #745655). | |
744 | ||
745 | *** mh-index-search Doesn't Find Short Acronyms | |
746 | ||
747 | Swish typically ignores words with fewer than four letters, but will | |
748 | still look for acronyms. Unfortunately, MH-E was downcasing the input | |
749 | words which defeated this feature. This has been fixed (closes SF | |
750 | #755718). | |
751 | ||
752 | \f | |
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753 | |
754 | * Changes in MH-E 7.3 | |
755 | ||
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756 | This release includes the new features of an index view of unseen |
757 | messages in all folders, spam software support, relative folder | |
758 | specification @ support, marking messages, recipient handling by | |
759 | mh-default-folder-list, Face and X-Image-URL header field support, and | |
760 | Fcc completion. Function arguments have been unified. Bugs have been | |
761 | fixed. | |
762 | ||
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763 | ** New Features in MH-E 7.3 |
764 | ||
286fbd0f | 765 | *** Unified Function Arguments |
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766 | |
767 | Any function with MSG-OR-SEQ in its docstring uses the displayed | |
768 | message by default for this argument. However, if a prefix argument is | |
769 | provided, then the user is prompted for a message sequence. If the | |
770 | variable `transient-mark-mode' is non-nil and the mark is active, then | |
771 | the function operates on the messages in the selected region. In a | |
772 | program, MSG-OR-SEQ can be a message number, a list of message | |
773 | numbers, a region in a cons cell, or a sequence. | |
774 | ||
286fbd0f | 775 | *** MH-Index View of Unseen Messages |
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776 | |
777 | Use "F n (mh-index-new-messages)" or Folder -> View New Messages menu | |
778 | item to display messages in the `mh-unseen-seq' sequence in folders | |
779 | specified by `mh-index-new-messages-folders'. With a prefix argument, | |
780 | enter a space-separated list of folders, or nothing to search all | |
781 | folders. | |
782 | ||
783 | Like other MH-Index folders, use "v (mh-index-visit-folder)" if you | |
784 | wish to visit the original folder with the unseen message. This is | |
785 | usually not necessary since the original message is annotated if you | |
786 | reply, deleted if you delete the message, or refiled if you refile the | |
787 | message (closes SF #701756). | |
788 | ||
286fbd0f | 789 | *** Spam Software Support |
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790 | |
791 | MH-E now supports several spam filters including Bogofilter, | |
792 | SpamProbe, and SpamAssassin. Spam that is mistakenly considered to be | |
793 | good mail can be reclassified as spam with "J b (mh-junk-blacklist)". | |
794 | Conversely, good mail that is accidently considered to be spam can be | |
795 | reclassified with "J w (mh-junk-whitelist)" (closes SF #669518). | |
796 | ||
797 | If a message is blacklisted, and `mh-junk-mail-folder' is a string, | |
798 | then the message is refiled to that folder. If this variable is nil, | |
799 | the message is deleted. If a message is whitelisted, then the message | |
800 | is refiled to `mh-inbox'. | |
801 | ||
802 | To change the spam program being used, customize `mh-junk-program'. | |
803 | This should only be necessary if you have multiple filters on your | |
804 | system and MH-E picked the wrong one. These customization variables | |
805 | are found in the new customization group `mh-junk'. | |
806 | ||
807 | The documentation for the following functions describes what setup is | |
808 | needed for the different spam fighting programs: | |
809 | ||
810 | - `mh-bogofilter-blacklist' | |
811 | - `mh-spamprobe-blacklist' | |
812 | - `mh-spamassassin-blacklist' | |
813 | ||
286fbd0f | 814 | *** Relative Folder Specification @ Supported |
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815 | |
816 | You can now use the relative folder marker @ in folder names (closes | |
817 | SF #666774). | |
818 | ||
286fbd0f | 819 | *** Marking Messages |
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820 | |
821 | Messages can now be highlighted with "' (mh-toggle-tick)", Sequence -> | |
822 | Toggle Tick Mark menu item or the "Toggle tick mark" button. These | |
823 | messages are added to the "tick" sequence, although this sequence can | |
824 | be changed in `mh-tick-seq'. The highlighting effect can be modified | |
825 | by customizing `mh-folder-tick-face' (closes SF #623367). | |
826 | ||
827 | There is also a new keybinding "/ ' (mh-narrow-to-tick)" and menu item | |
828 | Sequence -> Narrow to Tick Sequence to narrow the view to the | |
829 | highlighted messages. | |
830 | ||
286fbd0f | 831 | *** mh-default-folder-list Now Takes Recipients |
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832 | |
833 | If you wish to file a message based upon the recipient of a message | |
834 | (such as a mailing list), you can now indicate that when filling out | |
835 | the address in the `mh-default-folder-list' customization variable. | |
836 | ||
286fbd0f | 837 | *** Face Header Field Supported |
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838 | |
839 | In addition to the X-Face header field, the Face header field, which | |
840 | can display color images, is now supported. As a bonus, the external | |
841 | xface-e21 library is no longer required. | |
842 | ||
286fbd0f | 843 | *** X-Image-URL Support |
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844 | |
845 | Images specified in X-Image-URL header fields are now supported. | |
846 | See the customization variable `mh-fetch-x-image-url' to enable this | |
847 | support. | |
848 | ||
286fbd0f | 849 | *** Fcc Completion |
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850 | |
851 | Folders in Fcc fields in message drafts can now be completed with | |
852 | M-TAB. | |
853 | ||
854 | ** New Variables in MH-E 7.3 | |
855 | ||
856 | Variables that have been added to MH-E that have not been discussed | |
857 | elsewhere are listed here. | |
858 | ||
859 | *** mh-auto-fields-list | |
860 | ||
861 | Alist of addresses for which header lines are automatically inserted. | |
862 | When a regular expression matches in the To or cc fields of a message, | |
863 | the corresponding header field is automatically inserted in the | |
864 | message header. It also allows the automatic setting of an identity | |
865 | (using `mh-insert-identity') to set an alternate identity when sending | |
866 | messages to a certain person or mailing list. | |
867 | ||
868 | Since this is a more general use of `mh-insert-mail-followup-to-flag' | |
869 | and `mh-insert-mail-followup-to-list', these variables have been removed. | |
870 | ||
871 | *** mh-show-xface-face | |
872 | ||
873 | Face for displaying the X-Face image. | |
874 | ||
875 | *** mh-xemacs-toolbar-position | |
876 | ||
877 | This customization variable allows the user to place the toolbar on | |
878 | the four edges of the frame. | |
879 | ||
880 | *** mh-xemacs-use-toolbar-flag | |
881 | ||
882 | This customization variable is used to enable or disable the toolbar | |
883 | under XEmacs. | |
884 | ||
885 | ** Variables Deleted in MH-E 7.3 | |
886 | ||
887 | Variables that have been removed from MH-E that have not been | |
888 | discussed elsewhere are listed here. | |
889 | ||
890 | *** mh-decode-content-transfer-encoded-message-flag | |
891 | ||
892 | No longer needed since the external program mimencode is no longer | |
893 | used. | |
894 | ||
895 | *** mh-index-show-hook | |
896 | ||
897 | This hook was never used, so it was removed. | |
898 | ||
899 | *** mh-tool-bar-reply-3-buttons-flag | |
900 | ||
901 | Obsolete. This functionality is present `mh-tool-bar-folder-buttons'. | |
902 | ||
903 | ** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.3 | |
904 | ||
286fbd0f | 905 | *** Can't Refile Message |
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906 | |
907 | Messages with invalid addresses were causing errors in ali which | |
908 | prevented the refiling of messages. The ali error is now shown in the | |
909 | "*MH-E Log*" buffer and refiling suggests the last folder used (closes | |
910 | SF #680388). | |
911 | ||
286fbd0f | 912 | *** Empty Body Triggers Duped Header |
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913 | |
914 | If the body was empty the header would be treated like the body and | |
915 | was therefore displayed twice. This has been fixed (closes SF | |
916 | #681162). | |
917 | ||
286fbd0f | 918 | *** mml or mhl Directives Not Always Processed |
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919 | |
920 | The mml and mhl directives used to create body parts were not | |
921 | processed if one re-edited a draft, or if they added the directives | |
922 | manually. The directives are now always processed upon sending the | |
923 | letter. You may still, of course, use "C-c C-m m (mh-mml-to-mime)" or | |
924 | "C-c C-e (mh-edit-mhn)" to manually create the MIME body parts from | |
925 | the directives and then send the draft. | |
926 | ||
286fbd0f | 927 | *** mh-alias-grab-from-field Fails |
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928 | |
929 | MH-E was adding aliases with angle brackets around the address when | |
930 | there wasn't a phrase (usually, the user's name), to go with it. This | |
931 | caused ali to fail which caused problems in MH-E. This is probably a | |
932 | bug in ali, but MH-E no longer inserts angle brackets around the | |
933 | address unless there is a phrase, which avoids the problem (closes SF | |
934 | #690216). | |
935 | ||
286fbd0f | 936 | *** XEmacs Fixes |
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937 | |
938 | MH-E is now fully supported under XEmacs and compiles without any | |
939 | warnings. | |
940 | ||
941 | In particular, the following now work under XEmacs: | |
942 | ||
943 | - X-Face, Face, and X-Image-URL header fields | |
944 | - MH-E logo in mode line | |
945 | - Emphasis (bold, italics, etc.) | |
946 | - Smilies | |
947 | - Toolbar | |
948 | ||
286fbd0f | 949 | *** Indexed Folders Should Respect mh-show-threads-flag |
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950 | |
951 | Indexed folders are now threaded if `mh-show-threads-flag' is non-nil | |
952 | (closes SF #709667). | |
953 | ||
286fbd0f | 954 | *** Threading Index View Loses Folder Info |
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955 | |
956 | This has been fixed (closes SF #709672). | |
957 | ||
286fbd0f | 958 | *** No Undo Information When Re-editing Drafts |
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959 | |
960 | Undo is turned on in the draft buffer when using "e (mh-edit-again)" | |
961 | (closes SF #712777). | |
962 | ||
286fbd0f | 963 | *** Forwarded base64-encoded Messages Are Incorrectly Displayed |
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964 | |
965 | This has been fixed (closes SF #681518). | |
966 | ||
286fbd0f | 967 | *** Append to *MH-E Log* Buffer |
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968 | |
969 | The last 100 lines of log messages are kept in the *MH-E Log* buffer. | |
970 | Previously, the buffer was erased every time it was written (closes SF | |
971 | #685476). In addition, many of the MH-E commands now send their output | |
972 | into this buffer instead of a plethora of other special-purpose | |
973 | buffers. | |
974 | ||
286fbd0f | 975 | *** mh-inc-folder Complains if No Mail and No Current Message |
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976 | |
977 | The function `mh-inc-folder' no longer calls `mh-show' if point is not | |
978 | on a valid scan line. This keeps `mh-inc-folder' from complaining | |
979 | (closes SF #678115). | |
980 | ||
286fbd0f | 981 | *** Folder Normalization Strips Leading Slash |
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982 | |
983 | Leading "/" characters in folder names entered by the user were being | |
984 | lost. This has been fixed (closes SF #676890). | |
985 | ||
286fbd0f | 986 | *** Print Header Doesn't Show Message |
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987 | |
988 | When printing a sequence, the header simply indicated that a sequence, | |
989 | but not which one, was being printed and did not show the message | |
990 | number. This has been fixed. If more than one message is printed, a | |
991 | page of the scan lines is printed and its header indicates the | |
992 | sequence or message range. The pages with the actual messages all set | |
993 | the header to the folder and message displayed on that page. | |
994 | ||
286fbd0f | 995 | *** Aliases Constantly Reloaded |
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996 | |
997 | Empty lists are now handled properly (closes SF #693859). | |
998 | ||
286fbd0f | 999 | *** Remove RCS Keywords |
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1000 | |
1001 | Removed RCS keywords per Emacs conventions (closes SF #680731). | |
1002 | ||
286fbd0f | 1003 | *** Replace Mimencode |
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1004 | |
1005 | MH-E was enhanced to decode message based on charset and | |
1006 | Content-Transfer-Encoding. This eliminates the need for the external | |
1007 | program mimencode (closes SF #674857). | |
1008 | ||
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1010 | ||
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1011 | * Changes in MH-E 7.2 |
1012 | ||
1013 | This release includes the new features of filing hints, hierarchical | |
1014 | file name completion, indexed search and pick integration, unification | |
1015 | between `mh-visit-folder' and the speedbar, a displayed message | |
1016 | indicator, buffer name organization, support for mairix indexed | |
1017 | search, and last but not least, the MH-E logo has been added to the | |
1018 | mode line. Code that handles sequences and message regions runs | |
1019 | faster. Bugs have been fixed. | |
1020 | ||
1021 | ** New Features in MH-E 7.2 | |
1022 | ||
1023 | *** Filing Hints | |
1024 | ||
1025 | When you file a message, MH-E now looks for an alias corresponding to | |
1026 | the address of the sender and offers that as a default folder (closes | |
1027 | SF #657096). The new variable `mh-default-folder-prefix' can be used | |
1028 | to put these folders in a sub-folder. The new variable | |
1029 | `mh-default-folder-must-exist-flag' means to suppress the suggested | |
1030 | folder (thereby providing the previous folder used) if the folder | |
1031 | doesn't already exist. The new variable `mh-default-folder-list' can | |
1032 | be used to map additional addresses and folders. | |
1033 | ||
1034 | *** Hierarchical File Name Completion | |
1035 | ||
1036 | When you completed filenames in the past, you were presented with a | |
1037 | list of all your folders at all depths in the tree. Now you are | |
1038 | presented with only one level at a time (closes SF #664821). | |
1039 | As a result, the variables `mh-auto-folder-collect-flag' and | |
1040 | `mh-folder-list-change-hook' are obsolete. | |
1041 | ||
1042 | *** Indexed Search and Pick Integration | |
1043 | ||
1044 | The indexed and pick searches have been integrated (closes SF | |
1045 | #664816). Both "F s (mh-search-folder)" and "F i (mh-index-search)" | |
1046 | use the pick template for forming queries. To submit the query, use | |
1047 | "C-c C-c (mh-do-search)" which will use the query method you selected. | |
1048 | If you change your mind while forming the query, you can use "C-c C-i | |
1049 | (mh-index-do-search)" or "C-c C-p (mh-pick-do-search)" to submit the | |
1050 | query using the respective method. | |
1051 | ||
1052 | Second, the results from a pick search are now saved in a sub-folder | |
1053 | of +mhe-index like an indexed search. | |
1054 | ||
1055 | Third, `pick' is now a valid choice for `mh-index-program'. | |
1056 | ||
1057 | *** mh-visit-folder Metamorphosis Continues | |
1058 | ||
1059 | When visiting a folder from the speedbar, only the unseen messages are | |
1060 | shown if there are unseen messages. If there aren't any unseen | |
1061 | messages, all of the messages are shown if there are fewer than | |
1062 | `mh-large-folder' messages; otherwise, the user is prompted for the | |
1063 | range of messages to display. The "F v (mh-visit-folder)" command has | |
1064 | been modified to mimic this behavior. Use a prefix arg to force the | |
1065 | message range prompt. | |
1066 | ||
1067 | *** Displayed Message Indicator | |
1068 | ||
1069 | In graphical Emacs, the message that is shown is marked by a triangle | |
1070 | in the fringe. In textual Emacs, there is a ">" in the first column | |
1071 | (closes SF #664824). | |
1072 | ||
1073 | *** Buffer Name Organization | |
1074 | ||
1075 | All ephemeral buffer names start with " *mh" while all interesting | |
1076 | buffers start with "*MH-E ". The "*Folders*", "*Sequences*", and | |
1077 | "*Recipients*" buffers were therefore renamed to "*MH-E Folders*", | |
1078 | "*MH-E Sequences*" and "*MH-E Recipients*" respectively (programmers | |
1079 | should see mh-utils.el for the names of the new constants). Also, the | |
1080 | output of MH commands is saved in the "*MH-E Log*" buffer. | |
1081 | ||
1082 | *** mh-index-program | |
1083 | ||
1084 | Add choices for `mairix' and `pick'. | |
1085 | ||
1086 | *** Logo Displayed on Mode Line | |
1087 | ||
1088 | ** New Variables in MH-E 7.2 | |
1089 | ||
1090 | The new variables have been discussed elsewhere. | |
1091 | ||
1092 | ** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.2 | |
1093 | ||
1094 | *** mh-decode-content-transfer-encoded-message | |
1095 | ||
1096 | Messages that had been encoded with base64 were not decoded. This has | |
1097 | been fixed with this new function (closes SF #674190). As a result, | |
1098 | the variable `mh-decode-quoted-printable-flag' has been renamed to | |
1099 | `mh-decode-content-transfer-encoded-message-flag'. | |
1100 | ||
1101 | *** mh-kill-folder | |
1102 | ||
1103 | Now restores previous window configuration (closes SF #664828). | |
1104 | ||
1105 | *** mh-mime-display | |
1106 | ||
1107 | MH-E was not using the charset defined in the content-type | |
1108 | header. This meant that mail in a different charset would not | |
1109 | be properly displayed. This has been fixed (closes SF #655123). | |
1110 | ||
1111 | *** mh-read-address | |
1112 | ||
1113 | In XEmacs and Emacs20, this function would always prompt using "To: " | |
1114 | instead of using the command argument. This has been fixed (closes SF | |
1115 | #670913). | |
1116 | ||
1117 | *** mh-rmail | |
1118 | ||
1119 | Unseen messages are now shown in addition to new ones (closes SF | |
1120 | #667542). | |
1121 | ||
1122 | *** mh-scan-msg-overflow-regexp | |
1123 | ||
1124 | Change the variable so that a space is always maintained in the | |
1125 | beginning of the scan line. | |
1126 | ||
1127 | *** mh-swish-execute-search | |
1128 | ||
1129 | The example configuration file in the docstring didn't show the | |
1130 | backslash in the FileRules filename. If the example had been used | |
1131 | literally by the user, no files would be indexed! This has been fixed | |
1132 | (closes SF #665888). | |
1133 | ||
1134 | *** mh-thread-refile | |
1135 | ||
1136 | The "T o (mh-thread-refile)" command did not provide refiling hints | |
1137 | like `mh-refile-msg'. This has been fixed (closes SF #664829). | |
1138 | ||
1139 | *** mh-toggle-threads | |
1140 | ||
1141 | If the threaded view was modified and then toggled, the standard view | |
1142 | may not have been accurate (as it contained a potentially old first | |
1143 | message to last message range). This has been fixed (closes SF | |
1144 | #626117). | |
1145 | ||
1146 | *** mh-tool-bar-show-set, mh-tool-bar-letter-set, mh-tool-bar-folder-set | |
1147 | ||
1148 | Clicking the customize and help buttons now deletes the other windows | |
1149 | in the frame. | |
1150 | ||
1151 | *** mh-version | |
1152 | ||
1153 | The "M-x mh-version" command displayed "Aliasfile: aliases". This has | |
1154 | been fixed (closes SF #664467). See Buffer Name Organization above. | |
1155 | ||
1156 | \f | |
1157 | ||
1158 | * Changes in MH-E 7.1 | |
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1159 | |
1160 | This release includes the new features of multiple identities and | |
1161 | alias completion. In addition, indexed searching has been revamped. | |
1162 | Various other features have been added and a few bugs were fixed. | |
1163 | ||
1164 | ** New Features in MH-E 7.1 | |
1165 | ||
1166 | *** Multiple Identities | |
1167 | ||
1168 | MH-E now supports multiple identities (closes SF #628782). That means | |
1169 | that you can have different From and Organization header fields (or | |
1170 | any other header field of your choice) as well as different signatures | |
1171 | depending on your context. Usually, the contexts are home and work. | |
1172 | ||
1173 | Add your identities to the variable `mh-identity-list' and set the | |
1174 | default identity with the variable `mh-identity-default'. Your | |
1175 | identity can be switched on the fly by using the Identity menu or by | |
1176 | calling "M-x mh-insert-identity RET". | |
1177 | ||
1178 | This functionality can be customized within the mh-identity group. | |
1179 | ||
1180 | *** Alias Completion and Harvesting | |
1181 | ||
1182 | The contributed file mh-alias.el has been rewritten and incorporated | |
1183 | into MH-E. | |
1184 | ||
1185 | By default, aliases are culled from the system files | |
1186 | "/etc/nmh/MailAliases," "/usr/lib/mh/MailAliases," and "/etc/passwd" | |
1187 | (see `mh-alias-system-aliases') and from your "AliasFile" MH profile | |
1188 | component. These aliases are then used for completion in the | |
1189 | minibuffer when entering addresses. Within the header of the message | |
1190 | draft, "M-TAB (mh-letter-complete)" is used to do alias completion. | |
1191 | ||
1192 | The package also provides for alias creation based upon the From | |
1193 | header field of the current message. Use the lasso button | |
1194 | (mh-alias-grab-from-field). | |
1195 | ||
1196 | This functionality can be customized within the mh-alias group. | |
1197 | ||
1198 | *** Index Folder Updates | |
1199 | ||
1200 | The results of an index search "F i (mh-index-search)" are now stored | |
1201 | in a bona fide folder so that you can refile messages and reply to | |
1202 | messages directly from the result folder. This folder is a sub-folder | |
1203 | of +mhe-index and the name is based upon the search string (closes SF | |
1204 | #623321). | |
1205 | ||
1206 | If a prefix argument is given then the search in the current index | |
1207 | buffer is redone. | |
1208 | ||
1209 | The index folder lists the names of the source folders as before. | |
1210 | However, instead of using RET on the name of the folder to visit the | |
1211 | folder, use "v (mh-show-index-visit-folder)" anywhere within the | |
1212 | results to visit that folder narrowed to the results of the search. | |
1213 | Additional functions have been added to navigate including "TAB | |
1214 | (mh-index-next-folder)", and "SHIFT-TAB (mh-index-previous-folder)." | |
1215 | ||
1216 | *** mh-visit-folder Interface Updated | |
1217 | ||
1218 | A change was made to the prompting of the message range. In general, | |
1219 | you can use the same format for messages and sequences as you can in | |
1220 | MH with a single exception: a single number means to scan that many | |
1221 | messages, rather than scan that message number. This turns out to be | |
1222 | much more useful than visiting a single message and is consistent with | |
1223 | Gnus and the MH-E speedbar (closes SF #655891). | |
1224 | ||
1225 | If mh-visit-folder is called non-interactively and RANGE is nil then | |
1226 | all messages are displayed. This behavior is now documented and | |
1227 | provides backwards compatibility. | |
1228 | ||
1229 | *** Threading Improvements | |
1230 | ||
1231 | After incorporating new mail into a threaded folder, unseen messages | |
1232 | can be spread about. Two new functions have been added to make it | |
1233 | easier to find them: these are "M-n (mh-next-unread-msg)" and "M-p | |
1234 | (mh-previous-unread-msg)" (closes SF #630328) | |
1235 | ||
1236 | Two new functions were added to delete and refile threads. They are "T | |
1237 | d (mh-thread-delete)" and "T o (mh-thread-refile)" respectively | |
1238 | (closes SF #630493). | |
1239 | ||
1240 | In addition, the key "k" used to be bound to the function | |
1241 | `mh-delete-subject': it is now bound to | |
1242 | `mh-show-delete-subject-or-thread'. | |
1243 | ||
1244 | New functions to navigate threads include "T u (mh-thread-ancestor)", | |
1245 | which can jump to the root message of the current thread given an | |
1246 | optional argument, "T n (mh-thread-next-sibling)", and "T p | |
1247 | (mh-thread-previous-sibling)" | |
1248 | ||
1249 | *** Refiling of Messages in Region | |
1250 | ||
1251 | If mark is active and `transient-mark-mode' is enabled then all the | |
1252 | messages in the region are refiled. | |
1253 | ||
1254 | *** vCard Handling | |
1255 | ||
1256 | If a signature cannot be identified, but there is a vCard attachment, | |
1257 | then that vCard will be presented as a signature (closes SF #649216). | |
1258 | ||
1259 | *** New Info Added to mh-version | |
1260 | ||
1261 | Information about Gnus versions available at both compile time and run | |
1262 | time has been added. | |
1263 | ||
1264 | ** New Variables in MH-E 7.1 | |
1265 | ||
1266 | The defcustom groups were reorganized. Rather than iterate the | |
1267 | specific changes here, you are invited to browse the groups with "M-x | |
1268 | mh-customize RET". | |
1269 | ||
1270 | *** mh-alias-completion-ignore-case-flag | |
1271 | ||
1272 | Non-nil means don't consider case significant in MH alias completion. | |
1273 | This is the default in plain MH, so it is the default here as well. It | |
1274 | can be useful to set this to t if, for example, you use lowercase | |
1275 | aliases for people and uppercase for mailing lists. | |
1276 | ||
1277 | *** mh-alias-expand-aliases-flag | |
1278 | ||
1279 | Non-nil means to expand aliases entered in the minibuffer. In other | |
1280 | words, aliases entered in the minibuffer will be expanded to the full | |
1281 | address in the message draft. By default, this expansion is not | |
1282 | performed. | |
1283 | ||
1284 | *** mh-alias-flash-on-comma | |
1285 | ||
1286 | Specify whether to flash the translation of the alias or warn if there | |
1287 | isn't a translation of the alias. | |
1288 | ||
1289 | *** mh-alias-insert-file | |
1290 | ||
1291 | Filename to use to store new MH-E aliases. This variable can also be a | |
1292 | list of filenames, in which case MH-E will prompt for one of them. If | |
1293 | nil, the default, then MH-E will use the first file found in the | |
1294 | "AliasFile" component of the MH profile. | |
1295 | ||
1296 | *** mh-alias-insertion-location | |
1297 | ||
1298 | Specifies where new aliases are entered in alias files. Options are | |
1299 | sorted alphabetically (the default), at the top of the file or at the | |
1300 | bottom. | |
1301 | ||
1302 | *** mh-alias-local-users | |
1303 | ||
1304 | If t, local users are completed in MH-E To: and Cc: prompts. | |
1305 | ||
1306 | If you set this variable to a string, it will be executed to generate | |
1307 | a password file. A value of "ypcat passwd" is helpful if NIS is in | |
1308 | use. | |
1309 | ||
1310 | *** mh-alias-system-aliases | |
1311 | ||
1312 | A list of system files from which to cull aliases. If these files are | |
1313 | modified, they are automatically reread. This list need include only | |
1314 | system aliases and the passwd file, since personal alias files listed | |
1315 | in your "AliasFile" MH profile component are automatically included. | |
1316 | ||
1317 | *** mh-identity-default | |
1318 | ||
1319 | Default identity to use when `mh-letter-mode' is called. | |
1320 | ||
1321 | *** mh-identity-list | |
1322 | ||
1323 | List holding MH-E identity. | |
1324 | ||
1325 | *** mh-invisible-header-fields | |
1326 | ||
1327 | Simple user interface to change `mh-invisible-headers'. | |
1328 | ||
1329 | *** mh-letter-complete-function | |
1330 | ||
1331 | Function to call when completing outside of fields specific to | |
1332 | aliases. By default, it is bound to 'ispell-complete-word. | |
1333 | ||
1334 | *** mh-show-threads-flag | |
1335 | ||
1336 | Non-nil means new folders start in threaded mode. Threading large | |
1337 | number of messages can be time consuming. So if the flag is non-nil | |
1338 | then threading will be done only if the number of messages being | |
1339 | threaded is less than `mh-large-folder' (closes SF #646794). | |
1340 | ||
1341 | *** mh-tool-bar-folder-buttons | |
1342 | ||
1343 | Buttons to include in MH-E folder/show toolbar. | |
1344 | ||
1345 | *** mh-tool-bar-letter-buttons | |
1346 | ||
1347 | Buttons to include in MH-E letter toolbar. | |
1348 | ||
1349 | ** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.1 | |
1350 | ||
1351 | *** mh-get-new-mail | |
1352 | ||
1353 | Call new function `mh-add-cur-notation' to undo the work of | |
1354 | `mh-remove-cur-notation' if there was no new mail (closes SF #647681). | |
1355 | ||
1356 | *** mh-set-cmd-note | |
1357 | ||
1358 | No longer updates the default `mh-cmd-note' value. This resulted in | |
1359 | the misplacement of the current mark when the message number width | |
1360 | changed (closes SF #643701). | |
1361 | ||
1362 | \f | |
1363 | ||
3d7ca223 | 1364 | * Changes in MH-E 7.0 |
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1365 | |
1366 | This is a major release which includes a lot of new features including | |
1367 | improved MIME handling, speedbar folder browsing, and indexed | |
1368 | searching. In this version, MH-E runs under XEmacs, passes checkdoc, | |
1369 | and compiles clean under all supported platforms. | |
1370 | ||
1371 | The "passes checkdoc" feature above required changing the name of | |
1372 | several user-visible variables. It is likely that this affects you. | |
1373 | Please be sure to see the table at the end of these notes and rename | |
1374 | your variables accordingly. | |
1375 | ||
1376 | MH-E has been written mh-e, Mh-e, MH-e and MH-E. We have decided that | |
1377 | the proper term should be MH-E. Please try to use MH-E in your | |
1378 | writing. | |
1379 | ||
1380 | ** New Features in MH-E 7.0 | |
1381 | ||
1382 | *** Speedbar | |
1383 | ||
1384 | There is now support for the speedbar. Try "M-x speedbar" (closes SF | |
177c0ea7 | 1385 | #503727). |
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1386 | |
1387 | Press the middle mouse button on the `+' icons to open a folder, | |
1388 | middle mouse button on a folder name to open the folder. Folders with | |
1389 | unseen messages are shown in bold, so this is a handy way to browse | |
1390 | new messages that you have filed with procmail or slocal. | |
1391 | ||
1392 | See the new customization variable `mh-large-folder,' which controls | |
1393 | when the speedbar asks for how many messages to scan when opening a | |
1394 | large folder and `mh-speed-run-flists-flag' whose default value of t | |
1395 | means to use the flists command to populate the count of unseen and | |
1396 | total messages in each folder. | |
1397 | ||
1398 | *** Indexed Search | |
1399 | ||
1400 | Interoperability with swish++, swish, glimpse, and namazu has been | |
1401 | added to enable lightening-fast searches of your mail. If none of | |
1402 | these are present, grep is used. Try "F i (mh-index-search)". | |
1403 | ||
1404 | For more information, read the documentation for the functions | |
1405 | `mh-swish++-execute-search,' `mh-swish-execute-search,' | |
1406 | `mh-namazu-execute-search,' or `mh-glimpse-execute-search' depending | |
1407 | on your preferred indexing program to see what kind of setup is needed | |
1408 | to generate the index. | |
1409 | ||
1410 | *** Threading | |
1411 | ||
1412 | Use "T t (mh-toggle-threads)" to view the threads in the folder. Use | |
1413 | it again to return to a non-threaded view. | |
1414 | ||
1415 | *** Brief Help | |
1416 | ||
1417 | Use "? (mh-help)" and "X ? (mh-prefix-help)," where X is a prefix | |
1418 | character, for a brief synopsis in the minibuffer of frequently used | |
1419 | commands. In the MH-Letter or MH-Pick buffers, use "C-c ? (mh-help)" | |
1420 | (closes SF #493740). | |
1421 | ||
1422 | *** Folder Keymap Shared by Show Buffer | |
1423 | ||
1424 | You can now use the MH-Folder mode commands from the MH-Show buffer. | |
1425 | Because of this, the MH-Show buffer is now read-only (closes SF | |
1426 | #493749 and SF #527946) and you now have to use "M (mh-modify)" to | |
1427 | edit a message. | |
c3d9274a | 1428 | |
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1429 | *** Better Scanning |
1430 | ||
1431 | You no longer have to modify your scan format if your folders have | |
1432 | more than 9999 messages in them. If you've only modified your scan | |
1433 | format file to allow for the wider message numbers, consider using the | |
1434 | default behavior of MH-E and simplify your MH-E configuration | |
1435 | considerably (closes SF #635791). | |
1436 | ||
1437 | To do this, you may have to remove your modifications of | |
1438 | `mh-scan.*-regexp' and `mh-cmd-note' and your customization of | |
1439 | `mh-scan-format-file'. | |
1440 | ||
1441 | You may still want the updated format files for running MH commands | |
1442 | outside of MH-E; the default of `mh-scan-format-file' will cause them | |
1443 | to be ignored. | |
1444 | ||
1445 | If you prefer fixed-width message numbers, set the new customization | |
1446 | variable to nil , set this variable to | |
1447 | nil and call `mh-set-cmd-note' with the width specified by the scan format in | |
1448 | `mh-scan-format-file'. For example, the default width is 4, so you would use | |
1449 | "(mh-set-cmd-note 4)" if `mh-scan-format-file' were nil. | |
1450 | ||
1451 | *** X-Face | |
1452 | ||
1453 | MH-E now displays the content of the X-Face header field in the From | |
1454 | field. When sending a message, an X-Face field is appended to the | |
1455 | header if it doesn't already exist and "~/.face" is present. See the | |
1456 | new customization variables `mh-show-use-xface-flag' and `mh-x-face-file' | |
1457 | (closes SF #480770). | |
1458 | ||
1459 | MH-E depends on the external x-face package found in | |
1460 | ftp://ftp.jpl.org/pub/elisp/ to do this. The `uncompface' binary is | |
1461 | also required to be in the execute PATH. It can be obtained from: | |
1462 | http://freshmeat.net/redir/compface/1439/url_tgz/compface-1.4.tar.gz. | |
1463 | ||
1464 | It has also been observed that if you don't see the faces, you might | |
1465 | have to do this (for unknown reasons): | |
177c0ea7 | 1466 | |
bdcfe844 BW |
1467 | mv /usr/local/include/compface.h /usr/include/ |
1468 | ||
1469 | *** Graphical Smileys | |
1470 | ||
1471 | Smiley's are now converted to cute little images. See the new | |
1472 | customization variable `mh-graphical-smileys-flag.' | |
1473 | ||
1474 | *** Text Emphasis | |
1475 | ||
1476 | ASCII formatting is now converted to the appropriate font. For | |
1477 | example, _underline_ is underlined, *bold* appears in bold, /italic/ | |
1478 | appears in italic, etc. See `gnus-emphasis-alist' for the whole list. | |
1479 | See the new customization variables `mh-decode-mime' and | |
1480 | `mh-graphical-emphasis-flag.' | |
1481 | ||
1482 | *** Attachment Handling | |
1483 | ||
1484 | Inline attachments are now displayed. Regular attachments appear as | |
1485 | buttons in show buffer. Use "K TAB (mh-next-button)" or "K SHIFT-TAB | |
1486 | (mh-prev-button)" to cycle through these buttons. Use "K v | |
1487 | (mh-folder-toggle-mime-part)" to view, "K o | |
1488 | (mh-folder-save-mime-part)" to save one part or "K-a | |
1489 | (mh-save-mime-parts)" to save all parts, or "K i | |
1490 | (mh-folder-inline-mime-part)" to view the attachment inline. | |
1491 | ||
1492 | See the new customization variable `mh-decode-mime' for additional | |
1493 | information. Other customization variables that affect this new feature | |
1494 | include `mh-store-mime-parts-default-directory' and | |
1495 | `mh-display-buttons-for-inline-parts-flag'. | |
1496 | ||
1497 | HTML documents can be viewed inline if Gnus v5.10 and w3 or w3m lisp | |
1498 | packages are present. Set the customization variable | |
1499 | `mm-text-html-renderer' accordingly (closes SF #453352). | |
1500 | ||
1501 | *** Quoted-printable Handling | |
1502 | ||
1503 | Quoted-printable body parts are now decoded. | |
1504 | ||
1505 | *** More Choices for `mh-yank-from-start-of-msg' | |
1506 | ||
1507 | Historically, if this variable was t, the entire message, with full | |
1508 | headers would be included and every line would begin with | |
1509 | `mh-ins-buf-prefix.' This usage is deprecated in favor of the setting | |
1510 | `supercite' below. The default has been changed to `attribution.' The | |
1511 | following symbols are now understood: | |
1512 | ||
1513 | `body': yank the message minus the header. | |
1514 | ||
1515 | `supercite': include the entire message, with full headers. This also | |
1516 | causes the invocation of `sc-cite-original' without the setting of | |
1517 | `mail-citation-hook', now deprecated practice. | |
1518 | ||
1519 | `autosupercite': do as for `supercite' automatically when show buffer | |
1520 | matches the message being replied-to. | |
1521 | ||
1522 | `attribution': yank the message minus the header and add a simple | |
1523 | attribution line at the top. | |
1524 | ||
1525 | `autoattrib': do as for `attribution' automatically when show buffer | |
1526 | matches the message being replied-to. | |
1527 | ||
1528 | There is a new customization variable called | |
1529 | `mh-extract-from-attribution-verb' which is used for attribution which | |
1530 | provides a method for setting a different language. | |
1531 | ||
1532 | *** Use Gnus mml Instead of mhn | |
1533 | ||
1534 | When inserting attachments into a message draft, Gnus mml directives | |
1535 | are now used instead of mhn directives. One beneficial side-effect of | |
1536 | this is that attachments can now appear inline as well as separate. | |
1537 | ||
1538 | The new customization variable `mh-compose-insertion' controls whether | |
1539 | Gnus or mhn is used to insert MIME message directives in messages | |
1540 | (default: 'gnus, if the mml library exists). | |
1541 | ||
1542 | *** Content-Type Now Obtained Automatically | |
1543 | ||
1544 | The value of the Content-Type no longer needs to be entered by the | |
1545 | user. | |
1546 | ||
1547 | *** Attachments Automatically Included Upon Send | |
1548 | ||
1549 | You no longer have to run "C-c C-e (mh-edit-mhn)" before sending a | |
1550 | message with attachments--this is done automatically when you send the | |
1551 | message with "C-c C-c (mh-send-letter)". There is, however, a new key | |
1552 | binding "C-c C-m m (mh-mml-to-mime)" which is analogous to "C-c C-e | |
1553 | (mh-edit-mhn)". | |
1554 | ||
1555 | *** GPG Handling | |
1556 | ||
1557 | Messages that have been signed or encrypted with GPG are verified and | |
1558 | decrypted automatically. To sign or encrypt a message, use "C-c RET | |
1559 | C-s (mh-mml-secure-message-sign-pgpmime)" and "C-c C-m C-e | |
1560 | (mh-mml-secure-message-encrypt-pgpmime)." You need Gnus version 5.10 | |
1561 | for this feature. These functions are provided by the pgg.el package. | |
1562 | ||
1563 | Users report "flashing" with the pgg.el package and prefer the gpg.el | |
1564 | package instead. To use gpg.el instead of the pgg.el package you need: | |
1565 | ||
1566 | (setq mml2015-use 'gpg) | |
1567 | ||
1568 | To mimic automatic encryption in gpg.el, use: | |
1569 | ||
1570 | (setq mm-verify-option 'always) | |
1571 | (setq mm-decrypt-option 'always) | |
1572 | ||
1573 | The venerable mailcrypt package is also an option. However, now that | |
1574 | show buffers are read-only, mailcrypt version 3.5.6 and older fail | |
1575 | when they attempt to decrypt the contents. | |
1576 | ||
1577 | *** Mail-Followup-To Header Field | |
1578 | ||
1579 | Support for this controversial field has been added because nmh | |
1580 | supports it (closes SF #627035). If you want to add it to outgoing | |
1581 | mail for selected mailing lists, add those mailing lists to the new | |
1582 | customization variable `mh-insert-mail-followup-to-list.' If you think | |
1583 | this field is evil, set the new customization variable | |
1584 | `mh-insert-mail-followup-to-flag' to nil. | |
1585 | ||
1586 | *** Gnus Issues | |
1587 | ||
1588 | If you update Gnus, you must recompile MH-E. Note that if you are | |
1589 | running the stock version of MH-E that comes with Emacs or the MH-E | |
1590 | package on a Debian GNU/Linux, this is done for you. | |
1591 | ||
1592 | ** New Variables in MH-E 7.0 | |
1593 | ||
1594 | New customization variables not mentioned earlier include: | |
1595 | ||
1596 | *** mh-letter-insert-signature-hook | |
1597 | ||
1598 | Invoked at the beginning of the "C-c C-s (mh-insert-signature)" | |
1599 | command. Can be used to determine which signature file to use based on | |
1600 | message content. On return, if `mh-signature-file-name' is non-nil | |
1601 | that file will be inserted at the current point in the buffer. | |
1602 | ||
1603 | *** mh-show-maximum-size | |
1604 | ||
1605 | Maximum size of message (in bytes) to display automatically. Provides | |
1606 | an opportunity to skip over large messages which may be slow to load. | |
1607 | Use a value of 0 to display all messages automatically regardless of | |
1608 | size (closes SF #488696). | |
1609 | ||
1610 | *** mh-tool-bar-reply-3-buttons-flag | |
1611 | ||
1612 | Non-nil means use three buttons for reply commands in tool-bar. If you | |
1613 | have room on your tool-bar because you are using a large font, you may | |
1614 | set this variable to expand the single reply button into three buttons | |
1615 | that won't lead to minibuffer prompt about who to reply to. | |
1616 | ||
1617 | ** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.0 | |
1618 | ||
1619 | *** mh-delete-msg, mh-refile-msg, mh-undo | |
1620 | ||
1621 | Mandrake Linux includes XEmacs initialization code that binds | |
1622 | `transient-mark-mode' which causes problems in MH-E. These problems | |
1623 | have been fixed (closes SF #541915). | |
1624 | ||
1625 | *** mh-edit-again | |
1626 | ||
1627 | This would sometimes yield a read-only buffer. This has been fixed | |
1628 | (closes SF #624283 and SF #625538). | |
1629 | ||
1630 | *** mh-forward | |
1631 | ||
1632 | When using nmh, always specify -mime so as to preserve the original | |
1633 | message(s). | |
1634 | ||
1635 | *** mh-inc-folder | |
1636 | ||
1637 | If you had narrowed to a sequence and then incorporated new mail, | |
1638 | those new messages would not be present in your +inbox when you | |
1639 | widened. This has been fixed (closes SF #489430, SF #489437, SF | |
1640 | #629233). | |
1641 | ||
1642 | *** mh-insert-letter | |
1643 | ||
1644 | No longer uses mhl to include a message as this mangled the header and | |
1645 | gave supercite fits (closes SF #629153). | |
1646 | ||
1647 | *** mh-letter-mode | |
1648 | ||
1649 | "M-q (fill-paragraph)" now fills quoted paragraphs (for example, | |
1650 | starting with "> ") correctly (closes SF #489927). | |
1651 | ||
177c0ea7 | 1652 | *** mh-next-undeleted-msg, mh-previous-undeleted-msg |
bdcfe844 BW |
1653 | |
1654 | If there are no more undeleted messages the point remains at its | |
1655 | original position and a message is produced (closes SF #494304). | |
1656 | ||
1657 | *** mh-pick-mode | |
1658 | ||
1659 | Now calls `mh-pick-mode-hook' as documented. | |
1660 | ||
1661 | *** mh-put-msg-in-seq | |
1662 | ||
1663 | Now puts all messages in region in sequence (closes SF #630324). | |
1664 | ||
1665 | *** mh-refile-msg, mh-write-msg-to-file | |
1666 | ||
1667 | These functions stomped on the variables that held the name of the | |
1668 | last file and folder respectively for the other function. This has | |
1669 | been fixed so that the last folder or file name is preserved (closes | |
1670 | SF #580772). | |
1671 | ||
1672 | *** mh-region-to-sequence | |
1673 | ||
1674 | If the region in MH-Folder was set with "C-x h (mark-whole-buffer)", | |
1675 | you couldn't perform operations on all of the messages as you would | |
1676 | expect. This has been fixed (closes SF #621632). | |
1677 | ||
1678 | *** mh-reply | |
1679 | ||
1680 | Performing an undo the first thing after replying would blank out the | |
1681 | entire draft. Now just the insertion of the yanked message is undone | |
1682 | leaving the header and signature intact for additional editing (closes | |
1683 | SF #623693). | |
1684 | ||
1685 | *** mh-show-mode | |
1686 | ||
1687 | Now calls `mh-show-mode-hook' as documented (closes SF #627222). | |
1688 | ||
1689 | *** mh-subject-thread-to-sequence | |
1690 | ||
1691 | Make 'subject sequence a real one, exported to MH. This means you can, | |
1692 | for example, mh-forward it. But it also shows up with a mark in the | |
1693 | scan output (closes SF #489445). | |
1694 | ||
1695 | *** Other Bug Fixes | |
1696 | ||
1697 | The following bugs have also been closed: | |
1698 | ||
1699 | SF #495450: Folder buffer read-only after inc | |
1700 | SF #489706: mh-page-msg bombs out | |
1701 | SF #580772: mh-last-destination is overloaded | |
1702 | ||
1703 | *** Variables renamed to conform with Emacs coding conventions | |
1704 | ||
1705 | The coding conventions require that boolean variables end in -flag. | |
1706 | The following two tables show which variables were affected (closes SF | |
1707 | #627015). | |
1708 | ||
1709 | Customization Variables (defcustom) | |
1710 | ||
1711 | Old Name New Name | |
1712 | ||
1713 | mh-auto-folder-collect mh-auto-folder-collect-flag | |
1714 | mh-bury-show-buffer mh-bury-show-buffer-flag | |
1715 | mh-clean-message-header mh-clean-message-header-flag | |
1716 | mh-decode-quoted-printable mh-decode-quoted-printable-flag | |
1717 | mh-delete-yanked-msg-window mh-delete-yanked-msg-window-flag | |
1718 | mh-do-not-confirm mh-do-not-confirm-flag | |
1719 | mh-highlight-citation-p mh-highlight-citation | |
1720 | mh-insert-x-mailer-p mh-insert-x-mailer-flag | |
1721 | mh-print-background mh-print-background-flag | |
1722 | mh-recenter-summary-p mh-recenter-summary-flag | |
1723 | mh-recursive-folders mh-recursive-folders-flag | |
1724 | mh-reply-show-message-p mh-reply-show-message-flag | |
1725 | mh-show-use-goto-addr mh-show-use-goto-addr-flag | |
1726 | mh-update-sequences-after-mh-show mh-update-sequences-after-mh-show-flag | |
1727 | ||
1728 | Regular Variables (defvar) | |
1729 | ||
1730 | Old Name New Name | |
1731 | ||
1732 | mh-mhn-compose-insert-p mh-mhn-compose-insert-flag | |
1733 | mh-nmh-p mh-nmh-flag | |
1734 | mh-page-to-next-msg-p mh-page-to-next-msg-flag | |
1735 | ||
1736 | \f | |
1737 | ||
a1b4049d | 1738 | * Changes in mh-e 6.1 |
a933dad1 | 1739 | |
a1b4049d BW |
1740 | This is a minor release which includes a few bug fixes. The |
1741 | distribution now includes the ChangeLog. | |
a933dad1 | 1742 | |
a1b4049d | 1743 | ** New Features in mh-e 6.1 |
a933dad1 | 1744 | |
a1b4049d BW |
1745 | *** Fontification |
1746 | ||
1747 | Unseen messages now displayed in bold. | |
1748 | ||
1749 | *** Viewing folders and sequences | |
1750 | ||
1751 | The folder and sequence listings that "F l (mh-list-folders)" and "S l | |
1752 | (mh-list-sequences)" create are now displayed in view mode. | |
1753 | ||
1754 | ** Bug Fixes in mh-e 6.1 | |
1755 | ||
1756 | *** mh-folder-unseen-seq-name | |
1757 | ||
1758 | Byte compilation failed when initializing this variable when the | |
1759 | user's MH environment was not set up. This has been fixed (closes | |
1760 | Debian #140232 and Debian #140817). | |
1761 | ||
1762 | *** mh-forward | |
1763 | ||
1764 | When forwarding a sequence, the mode of the draft would not be set to | |
1765 | MH-Letter correctly. This has been fixed (closes SF #489448). | |
1766 | ||
1767 | *** mh-insert-prefix-string | |
1768 | ||
1769 | Fixed to work under XEmacs. Thanks to Will Partain | |
1770 | <partain at dcs.gla.ac.uk>. | |
1771 | ||
1772 | *** mh-quit | |
1773 | ||
bdcfe844 | 1774 | mh-quit now cleans up the buffers named `mh-temp-buffer,' |
a1b4049d BW |
1775 | 'mh-temp-folders-buffer' and 'mh-temp-sequences-buffer.' |
1776 | ||
1777 | \f | |
1778 | * Changes in mh-e 6.0 | |
1779 | ||
1780 | mh-e is now maintained at SourceForge (see | |
1781 | http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/). This is where you need to go to obtain | |
1782 | new versions of mh-e, report bugs and receive support. | |
1783 | ||
1784 | The maintainers have moved much of their personal configurations into | |
1785 | the codebase, so you may find that you may be able to reduce your mh-e | |
1786 | customizations as well. | |
1787 | ||
1788 | There are several incompatibilities in this version from older | |
1789 | versions. Please read the following notes carefully for details. Pay | |
1790 | particular attention to the key binding changes in the MH-Folder | |
1791 | section. If you have customized your scan format, you will want to | |
1792 | read about the new variable `mh-scan-format-file'. | |
1793 | ||
1794 | The manual could not be updated in time for this release. It will be | |
1795 | updated in the near future. If the Preface in your manual indicates | |
1796 | the older version (version 1.3, for mh-e version 5.0.2), please check | |
1797 | the following page occasionally for an update: | |
1798 | ||
1799 | https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13357 | |
1800 | ||
1801 | ||
1802 | ** New Features in mh-e 6.0 | |
1803 | ||
1804 | *** Customization | |
1805 | ||
1806 | mh-e now uses the customize feature of Emacs. Use "M-x customize-group | |
1807 | mh RET" to customize mh-e. | |
1808 | ||
1809 | *** Menus | |
1810 | ||
1811 | All mh-e modes now provide menus that contain most mh-e functions. | |
1812 | ||
1813 | *** Toolbars | |
1814 | ||
1815 | All mh-e modes now have toolbar buttons for oft-used functions (Emacs 21). | |
1816 | ||
1817 | *** Fontification | |
1818 | ||
1819 | All mh-e buffers now have font-lock keywords. To use, either call | |
1820 | (turn-on-font-lock) from the appropriate hook, or set | |
1821 | `global-font-lock-mode' to t. To customize, use "M-x | |
1822 | customize-apropos-faces ^mh RET". | |
1823 | ||
1824 | If you have customized your scan lines, you will have to update your | |
1825 | scan regexps. The existing regexps were changed to extract a match so | |
1826 | you will have to add appropriate grouping constructs to take advantage | |
1827 | of the fontification. Your old settings will continue to work, but the | |
1828 | folder will not be fontified. For example: | |
1829 | ||
1830 | (setq mh-good-msg-regexp "^\\(.....\\)[^D^]") | |
1831 | ||
1832 | You will most likely have to update the new variable | |
1833 | `mh-scan-subject-regexp' as well. There is another new variable | |
1834 | `mh-scan-date-regexp' which you may also find useful. Run "M-x apropos | |
1835 | mh.*regexp" for a complete list. | |
1836 | ||
1837 | *** mail-user-agent support | |
1838 | ||
1839 | You can now set `mail-user-agent' to `mh-e-user-agent' so that packages | |
1840 | that need to send mail will use mh-e (closes SF #406883, SF #470024). | |
1841 | ||
1842 | *** replgroupcomps support | |
1843 | ||
1844 | If you reply to `cc' or `all' and you use nmh, the nmh repl option | |
1845 | -group will be used. This means that the file `replgroupcomps' will be | |
1846 | used. If you have customized `replcomps', you will definitely want to | |
1847 | either copy `$NMH_LIB/replgroupcomps' to your mail directory and modify | |
1848 | it the same way that you modified your `replcomps' file, or simply | |
1849 | copy your `replcomps' file to `replgroupcomps'. | |
1850 | ||
1851 | *** MH-Folder mode | |
1852 | ||
1853 | The variable `mh-summary-height' used to have a default of 4. It now | |
1854 | varies from 4 to 10 depending on the height of the frame. | |
1855 | ||
1856 | Clicking the mouse on a message shows that message. | |
1857 | ||
1858 | Delete, refile and undo now operate on a region (but only if | |
1859 | `transient-mark-mode' is non-nil). | |
1860 | ||
1861 | SPC (mh-page-msg) now displays the message if it is not already | |
1862 | visible. If the bottom of a message is showing, SPC (mh-page-msg) | |
1863 | moves to the next message (respecting the direction you are moving | |
1864 | through the folder). | |
1865 | ||
177c0ea7 | 1866 | The threading commands "T u (mh-next-unseen-subject-thread)", |
a1b4049d BW |
1867 | "T t (mh-toggle-subject-thread)", "T s (mh-narrow-to-subject-thread)", |
1868 | and "T k (mh-delete-subject-thread)" have been added. These functions | |
1869 | do not offer threading in the true sense of the word, but do allow | |
1870 | some manipulation by subject. | |
1871 | ||
1872 | Major, major keymap changes. This was done to free up movement | |
1873 | commands in the buffer, and to provide for additional features, such | |
1874 | as the threading commands. At the same time, better and more | |
1875 | consistent mnemonics were realized that should make it easier to | |
1876 | remember key bindings. | |
1877 | ||
1878 | Added new sub-keymaps for folder commands, sequence commands, | |
1879 | extraction commands, and digest commands which begin with with F, S, | |
1880 | X, and D, respectively. These sub-keymaps allowed some consistency | |
1881 | (e.g., especially with l(ist) and k(ill)). | |
1882 | ||
1883 | Here are the actual changes and rationale: | |
1884 | ||
1885 | Old New Rationale | |
1886 | ||
1887 | e - Deleted. Already have x. Now used by mh-edit-again. | |
1888 | j - Deleted. Already have g. | |
1889 | ||
1890 | M-a e Better mnemonic. Matches rmail. Frees movement command. | |
1891 | M-e E Better mnemonic. Consistent with e. | |
1892 | - S Why not? mh-sort-folder. | |
1893 | ||
1894 | M-f Fv Frees movement command | |
1895 | M-f Ff Alias (keep?) | |
1896 | M-f Fo Alias (keep?) | |
1897 | M-k Fk No reason but to keep with folder commands | |
1898 | M-l Fl No reason but to keep with folder commands | |
1899 | M-p Fp No reason but to keep with folder commands | |
1900 | M-r Fr Frees movement command | |
1901 | M-s Fs No reason but to keep with folder commands | |
1902 | M-u Fu No reason but to keep with folder commands | |
1903 | ||
1904 | M-% Sd Better mnemonic | |
1905 | M-# Sk Better mnemonic | |
1906 | M-q Sl Better mnemonic | |
1907 | C-xn Sn Frees up standard key binding | |
1908 | % Sp Better mnemonic for putting a message in a sequence | |
1909 | ? Ss Shows sequences that message is in | |
1910 | C-xw Sw Frees up standard key binding | |
1911 | ||
1912 | M-n Xs Better mnemonic (extract shar) | |
1913 | M-n Xu Better mnemonic (extract uuencode) | |
1914 | ||
1915 | M-SPC D SPC Frees mark command | |
1916 | M-\177 D \177 No reason but to keep with digest commands | |
1917 | M-b Db Frees movement command | |
1918 | ||
1919 | As the number of variables increases, it is becoming important to | |
1920 | organize the mh-e namespace. Several variables having to do with the | |
1921 | format of scan lines were renamed, as follows: | |
1922 | ||
1923 | Old New | |
1924 | ||
1925 | mh-good-msg-regexp mh-scan-good-msg-regexp | |
1926 | mh-deleted-msg-regexp mh-scan-deleted-msg-regexp | |
1927 | mh-refiled-msg-regexp mh-scan-refiled-msg-regexp | |
1928 | mh-valid-scan-line mh-scan-valid-regexp | |
1929 | mh-cur-scan-msg-regexp mh-scan-cur-msg-number-regexp | |
1930 | - mh-scan-cur-msg-regexp | |
1931 | - mh-scan-rcpt-regexp | |
1932 | - mh-scan-format-regexp | |
1933 | mh-msg-number-regexp mh-scan-msg-number-regexp | |
1934 | mh-msg-search-regexp mh-scan-msg-search-regexp | |
1935 | ||
1936 | *** MH-Show mode | |
1937 | ||
1938 | While the MIME support is not complete, quoted-printable body parts | |
1939 | are now decoded. | |
1940 | ||
1941 | Some MTAs quote From at the beginning of the line with a ">". The ">" | |
1942 | is now removed in the display, but not on disk. | |
1943 | ||
1944 | *** MH-Letter mode | |
1945 | ||
1946 | New function "C-c C-o (mh-split-line)" splits lines in a draft | |
1947 | preserving the fill prefix and indentation. This is useful when | |
1948 | responding to several sentences in a single paragraph separately. | |
1949 | ||
1950 | "M-q (fill-paragraph)" can now be used on the message that is being | |
1951 | replied to. The fill prefix such as "> " is preserved. | |
1952 | ||
1953 | You no longer have to run "C-c C-e (mh-edit-mhn)" manually as this is | |
1954 | now done automatically when the message is sent. | |
1955 | ||
1956 | The X-Mailer header field is now added to messages as they are sent. | |
1957 | ||
1958 | "C-c C-m C-i (mh-mhn-compose-insertion)" now makes a pretty good guess | |
1959 | at the type of file using the `file' command and no longer asks the | |
1960 | user for the media type. If the necessary version of `file' is not | |
1961 | available, the user is asked for the media type as before; however, | |
1962 | the list of media types is now taken from the system mailcap if | |
1963 | available. Failing that, the built-in list of types has been | |
1964 | supplemented so in most cases the type you need should be present | |
1965 | (closes SF #406883, #441179). | |
1966 | ||
1967 | ** New Variables in mh-e 6.0 | |
1968 | ||
1969 | New variables not mentioned earlier include: | |
1970 | ||
1971 | *** mh-insert-x-mailer-p | |
1972 | ||
1973 | Default value of t means that an X-Mailer header field should be | |
1974 | added. | |
1975 | ||
1976 | *** mh-reply-show-message-p | |
1977 | ||
1978 | The setting of this variable determines whether the MH show-buffer is | |
1979 | displayed with the current message when using mh-reply without a prefix | |
1980 | argument. Set it to nil if you already include the message | |
1981 | automatically in your draft using "repl: -filter repl.filter" in | |
1982 | "~/.mh_profile." | |
1983 | ||
1984 | *** mh-scan-format-file | |
1985 | ||
1986 | Specifies the format file to pass to the scan program. If t, the | |
1987 | format string will be taken from the either `mh-scan-format-mh' or | |
1988 | `mh-scan-format-nmh' depending on whether MH or nmh is in use. If nil, | |
1989 | the default scan output will be used. | |
1990 | ||
1991 | If you customize the scan format, you may need to modify a few | |
1992 | variables containing regexps that mh-e uses to identify specific | |
1993 | portions of the output. Use `M-x apropos RET mh-scan.*regexp' to | |
1994 | obtain a list of these variables. | |
1995 | ||
1996 | *** mh-scan-format-mh | |
1997 | ||
1998 | Scan format string for MH, provided to the scan program via the | |
1999 | -format arg. This format is identical to the default except that | |
2000 | additional hints for fontification have been added to the sixth | |
2001 | column. | |
2002 | ||
2003 | *** mh-scan-format-nmh | |
2004 | ||
2005 | Scan format string for nmh, provided to the scan program via the | |
2006 | -format arg. This format is identical to the default except that | |
2007 | additional hints for fontification have been added to the sixth | |
2008 | column. | |
2009 | ||
2010 | *** mh-show-use-goto-addr | |
2011 | ||
2012 | Non-nil means URLs and e-mail addresses are highlighted using | |
2013 | goto-addr in MH-Show buffer. | |
2014 | ||
2015 | *** mh-letter-fill-column | |
2016 | ||
2017 | Fill column to use in `mh-letter-mode'. This is useful to make the | |
2018 | lines a bit shorter to allow for quoting in replies. | |
2019 | ||
2020 | *** mh-folder-updated-hook | |
2021 | ||
2022 | Invoked when the actions in a folder (such as moves and deletes) are | |
2023 | performed. Variables that are useful in this hook include | |
2024 | `mh-delete-list' and `mh-refile-list' which can be used to see which | |
2025 | changes are being made to current folder, `mh-current-folder'. | |
2026 | ||
2027 | *** mh-unseen-updated-hook | |
2028 | ||
2029 | Invoked after the unseen sequence has been updated. The variable | |
2030 | `mh-seen-list' can be used to obtain the list of messages which will | |
2031 | be removed from the unseen sequence | |
2032 | ||
2033 | ** Bug Fixes in mh-e 6.0 | |
2034 | ||
2035 | *** mh-edit-again and mh-extract-rejected-mail | |
2036 | ||
2037 | Now insert a header separator (--------) which packages such as | |
2038 | mailcrypt expect. | |
2039 | ||
2040 | *** mh-find-progs | |
2041 | ||
2042 | Now uses `mhparam' to set `mh-lib-progs' and `mh-lib'. Added more | |
2043 | directories to `mh-progs' so that mh-e can autoconfigure in more | |
2044 | environments. Chances are that you no longer have to set these | |
2045 | variables, and if you do, you will only have to set `mh-progs'. | |
2046 | Unless, of course, you are using an ancient version of MH that doesn't | |
2047 | have `mhparam'. | |
2048 | ||
2049 | *** mh-folder-mode-map | |
2050 | ||
2051 | The DEL/<delete>/<backspace> change in Emacs 21 broke | |
2052 | `mh-previous-page'. This has been fixed (closes SF #228907). | |
2053 | ||
2054 | *** mh-forward | |
2055 | ||
2056 | If you had "forw: -mime" to your .mh_profile, forwarding a message | |
2057 | resulted in: | |
2058 | ||
2059 | Search failed: "^------- Forwarded Message" | |
2060 | ||
2061 | In addition, the Subject field was not filled in. This has been fixed | |
2062 | (closes SF #223603). | |
2063 | ||
2064 | *** mh-kill-folder | |
2065 | ||
2066 | The user is now always prompted before this action; the variable | |
2067 | `mh-do-not-confirm' is no longer consulted here. Therefore users who | |
2068 | wanted to set `mh-do-not-confirm' but didn't because of the | |
2069 | `mh-kill-folder' dependency may now do so. | |
a933dad1 | 2070 | |
a1b4049d BW |
2071 | *** mh-make-folder-mode-line |
2072 | ||
2073 | Properly deals with folders that do not have any lines in them. Prints | |
2074 | "no msgs" instead of "0 msgs". Does not try to print a range when | |
2075 | there are no messages. | |
2076 | ||
2077 | *** mh-mhn-compose-insertion | |
2078 | ||
2079 | Now gets the MIME type automatically (assuming the local file command | |
2080 | supports the -i and -b options). If this use of the file command is | |
2081 | not supported, the list of MIME types has been expanded to use the | |
2082 | system's mailcap file. | |
2083 | ||
2084 | *** mh-nmh-p | |
2085 | ||
2086 | This variable (t when nmh is in use rather than MH) assumed that the | |
2087 | string "nmh" is in `mh-lib-progs' or `mh-lib'. This has been fixed | |
2088 | (closes SF #441776). | |
2089 | ||
2090 | *** mh-refile-msg | |
2091 | ||
2092 | No longer lets you specify an empty folder (closes SF #476824). | |
2093 | ||
2094 | *** mh-regenerate-headers | |
2095 | ||
2096 | Now suppresses "scan: bad message list" messages. | |
2097 | ||
2098 | *** mh-print-msg | |
2099 | ||
2100 | This function was looking for `mhl' in the wrong place on nmh on | |
2101 | Redhat LINUX 7.0. This has been fixed (closes SF #481128). | |
2102 | ||
2103 | *** mh-show | |
2104 | ||
2105 | Now updates `cur' sequence after a message is shown (closes SF #481772). | |
2106 | ||
2107 | *** mh-showing | |
2108 | ||
2109 | Renamed variable and function to `mh-showing-mode' to conform with | |
2110 | minor mode conventions. Added optional arg to function so it would | |
2111 | behave like a normal minor mode: no or nil arg toggles mode, 0 arg | |
2112 | turns off, non-nil turns on. This fixed the error that occurred when | |
2113 | `desktop-create-buffer' recreated mh-e buffers because it was calling | |
2114 | `mh-showing' with an arg. | |
2115 | ||
2116 | *** mh-version | |
2117 | ||
2118 | Fixed for nmh. Now displays mh-e version correctly. Cleaned up output | |
2119 | and display `mh-progs', etc. | |
2120 | ||
2121 | *** mh-widen | |
2122 | ||
2123 | Now attempts to stay on the same message number (closes SF #480922). | |
2124 | ||
2125 | No longer wipes out pending deletes and refiles without warning | |
2126 | (closes SF #481036). | |
2127 | ||
2128 | \f | |
2129 | * Changes in mh-e 5.0.2 | |
2130 | ||
2131 | This version contains additional minor changes to integrate it with | |
a933dad1 DL |
2132 | reporter.el (requires reporter.el version 3.1c or later) and Emacs |
2133 | 19.30. The mh-goto-msg function is much faster, which also speeds up | |
2134 | several other operations. | |
2135 | ||
a1b4049d BW |
2136 | \f |
2137 | * Changes in mh-e 5.0.1 | |
2138 | ||
2139 | This version contains minor changes from mh-e 5.0 to integrate it with | |
2140 | Emacs 19.29. | |
2141 | ||
2142 | \f | |
2143 | * User-visible changes to mh-e 5.0 | |
2144 | ||
2145 | Note: This being a major release, there are many internal changes. | |
2146 | This document lists only changes to the external interfaces of mh-e. | |
2147 | ||
2148 | When upgrading, you must either explicitly reload the new versions of | |
2149 | all mh-e files that are already loaded or restart your Emacs. | |
a933dad1 | 2150 | |
a933dad1 | 2151 | |
a1b4049d BW |
2152 | ** Major Changes and New Features in mh-e 5.0 |
2153 | ||
2154 | The emphasis for this release has been on consistency and | |
2155 | documentation. Many documentation strings were enhanced. Documentation | |
2156 | strings were changed to comments for internal functions and variables. | |
2157 | ||
2158 | *** There is now proper documentation in the form of a 75-page users | |
2159 | manual. The Texinfo source is mh-e.texi; the formatted Info document | |
a933dad1 DL |
2160 | is mh-e.info. |
2161 | ||
a1b4049d BW |
2162 | *** There is a new command `mh-update-sequences', which updates MH's |
2163 | idea of what messages are in the Unseen sequence and what is the | |
2164 | current folder and message. `mh-quit' calls it. While | |
2165 | `mh-execute-commands' has always done this updating as a side effect, | |
2166 | the new function is faster. | |
a933dad1 | 2167 | |
a1b4049d | 2168 | *** The MH profile entry "Inbox:" is supported. |
a933dad1 | 2169 | |
a1b4049d BW |
2170 | *** If the show-buffer is modified, the user is queried before mh-e |
2171 | reuses the buffer to show a different message. This buffer is also | |
a933dad1 DL |
2172 | auto-saved and backed up correctly. |
2173 | ||
a1b4049d BW |
2174 | *** `mh-store-buffer' is significantly more robust. It now handles |
2175 | messages created by a wide variety of packaging software. The status | |
2176 | message for `uudecode' includes the name of the file created. An error | |
a933dad1 DL |
2177 | is signaled if the subprocess exits with a non-zero status. |
2178 | ||
a1b4049d BW |
2179 | *** `mh-search-folder' behaves predictably, adding messages found to |
2180 | the `search' sequence. It correctly handles the case of no messages | |
2181 | found. | |
2182 | ||
2183 | *** `mh-burst-digest' (`M-b') now only rescans the part of the folder | |
2184 | affected by the burst. It is now much faster in a large folder. | |
a933dad1 | 2185 | |
a933dad1 | 2186 | |
a1b4049d | 2187 | ** New Hooks and Customization Variables in mh-e 5.0 |
a933dad1 | 2188 | |
a1b4049d BW |
2189 | *** `mh-default-folder-for-message-function': new name for the old |
2190 | `mh-msg-folder-hook', which wasn't a hook. The old name was confusing, | |
a933dad1 DL |
2191 | leading people to think they could use `add-hook' with it, when |
2192 | actually `setq' is the correct way. | |
2193 | ||
a1b4049d | 2194 | *** `mh-sortm-args': When this variable is used has changed. Now |
a933dad1 | 2195 | `mh-sortm-args' is passed if there IS a prefix argument to |
a1b4049d | 2196 | `mh-sort-folder'. The assumption is that for arguments you normally |
a933dad1 DL |
2197 | want, you would specify them in an MH profile entry. |
2198 | ||
a1b4049d | 2199 | *** `mh-mhn-args': new hook, a list of additional arguments to pass to |
a933dad1 DL |
2200 | the `mhn' program if `mh-edit-mhn' is given a prefix argument. |
2201 | ||
a1b4049d | 2202 | *** `mh-edit-mhn-hook': new hook called by `mh-edit-mhn', the function |
a933dad1 DL |
2203 | that formats MIME messages. |
2204 | ||
a1b4049d | 2205 | *** `mh-folder-list-change-hook': new hook, called whenever the cached |
a933dad1 DL |
2206 | list of folders, `mh-folder-list', is changed. |
2207 | ||
a1b4049d | 2208 | *** `mh-find-path-hook': new hook, called when entering mh-e. |
a933dad1 | 2209 | |
a1b4049d | 2210 | *** `mh-repl-formfile': new variable, used to change the format file |
a933dad1 DL |
2211 | used by `mh-reply' from the default of "replcomps". |
2212 | ||
a1b4049d | 2213 | *** New variables to customize the scan format and notating: |
a933dad1 DL |
2214 | `mh-note-deleted', `mh-note-refiled', `mh-note-seq', `mh-note-cur', |
2215 | `mh-note-copied', `mh-note-printed'. | |
2216 | ||
a933dad1 | 2217 | |
a1b4049d BW |
2218 | ** Key Binding Changes in mh-e 5.0 |
2219 | ||
2220 | *** `RET' runs `mh-show' for consistency with the Finder and Info. The | |
a933dad1 DL |
2221 | old binding `.' still works, but `RET' is now the standard binding. |
2222 | ||
a1b4049d BW |
2223 | *** `M-<' now runs `mh-first-msg' for consistency with `M->', which |
2224 | runs `mh-last-msg'. | |
a933dad1 | 2225 | |
a1b4049d | 2226 | *** `C-c C-f C-d' in MH-Letter mode moves to a Dcc: header field. |
a933dad1 | 2227 | |
a1b4049d | 2228 | *** `C-c C-f C-r' in MH-Letter mode moves to a From: header field. |
a933dad1 | 2229 | |
a1b4049d | 2230 | *** `g' is now the standard binding for `mh-goto-msg'. The old binding |
a933dad1 DL |
2231 | `j' still works. |
2232 | ||
a933dad1 | 2233 | |
a1b4049d BW |
2234 | ** Other Improvements and Changes to mh-e 5.0 |
2235 | ||
2236 | *** `mh-lpr-command-format' no longer passes the "-p" argument to | |
2237 | `lpr' by default. The mail header typically has the date anyway. | |
a933dad1 | 2238 | |
a1b4049d | 2239 | *** When prompting for a sequence name, if no sequences have been used |
a933dad1 DL |
2240 | yet, mh-e will offer the first sequence the current message is in. |
2241 | ||
a1b4049d | 2242 | *** The patterns of more mailers are recognized by |
a933dad1 DL |
2243 | `mh-extract-rejected-mail'. |
2244 | ||
a1b4049d | 2245 | *** `mh-insert-prefix-string' no longer wraps the call to the |
a933dad1 DL |
2246 | `mail-citation-hook' function in a `save-excursion' so the hook writer |
2247 | can choose whether to leave point at the beginning or the end of the | |
2248 | yanked text. | |
2249 | ||
a1b4049d BW |
2250 | *** `mh-write-msg-to-file': The prompt now refers to "message" or |
2251 | "message body" depending on which will be written. (This is controlled | |
2252 | by a prefix argument.) The file defaults to the last-used file instead | |
a933dad1 DL |
2253 | of supplying only the directory name. |
2254 | ||
a1b4049d BW |
2255 | *** mh-e uses message ranges when running MH commands. Thus "rmm 1 2 3 |
2256 | 4 6" is now "rmm 1-4 6". This change makes it less likely to overflow | |
a933dad1 DL |
2257 | system argument list limits, and it might be faster, too. |
2258 | ||
a933dad1 | 2259 | |
a1b4049d BW |
2260 | ** Bug Fixes to mh-e 5.0 |
2261 | ||
2262 | *** mh-e's idea of the unseen sequence now stays in sync with MH's | |
a933dad1 DL |
2263 | better. |
2264 | ||
a1b4049d BW |
2265 | *** Functions that are supposed to find fields in the message header |
2266 | no longer look in the message body. | |
a933dad1 | 2267 | |
a1b4049d BW |
2268 | *** mh-e would sometimes fail to remove the "%" from a scan line when |
2269 | the message was removed from a sequence if the message was also in the | |
a933dad1 DL |
2270 | Previous sequence. |
2271 | ||
a1b4049d | 2272 | *** The variable `mh-inc-prog' is now correctly used in all places. |
a933dad1 | 2273 | |
a1b4049d | 2274 | *** `mh-pipe-msg' runs the process in the correct directory. |
a933dad1 | 2275 | |
a1b4049d | 2276 | *** A partially scanned folder will no longer lose the "/select" |
a933dad1 DL |
2277 | annotation when you execute marked deletes and refiles with `x'. |
2278 | ||
a1b4049d BW |
2279 | \f |
2280 | * Changes to mh-e 4.0 | |
2281 | ||
2282 | This file is automatically generated from news-mh-e.txinfo. Do not edit. | |
2283 | ||
2284 | [MH-E-ONEWS has been incorporated here and removed. news-mh-e.txinfo | |
2285 | is no longer available.] | |
2286 | ||
2287 | Note: there are many internal changes to mh-e in this release. If you | |
2288 | have the previous version loaded into your Emacs, you will probably not | |
2289 | be able to load this version on top of it. | |
2290 | ||
2291 | ** New Features in mh-e 4.0 | |
2292 | ||
2293 | *** Background folder collection. The first time you are prompted for | |
2294 | a folder, you must wait while mh-e collects the names of all existing | |
2295 | folders. Now however, if you abort, collecting will continue in the | |
2296 | background, and you can do something else in Emacs until the | |
2297 | collection completes. Normally, mh-e will begin collecting folders | |
2298 | names in the background when you first load it; you can disable this | |
2299 | feature by setting `mh-auto-folder-collect' to nil. | |
2300 | ||
2301 | *** There is support for composing MIME messages using the `mhn' | |
2302 | program from MH 6.8. See the documentation string for mh-edit-mhn. | |
2303 | (While composing a letter, type `C-h k C-c C-e'.) See also mhn(1). | |
2304 | There is as yet no support for reading MIME messages. | |
2305 | ||
2306 | *** `mh-show', typically on `.', repositions to the start of the | |
2307 | message if the message is already visible. It used to do nothing in | |
2308 | this case. | |
2309 | ||
2310 | *** The function `mh-unshar-msg' is renamed `mh-store-msg'. It now | |
2311 | does uudecoding, too. Someday it should do MIME. It remembers the last | |
2312 | directory you used and offers it as the default for next time. | |
2313 | ||
2314 | *** New function `mh-header-display', on `,', displays the message | |
2315 | with all headers, including those normally not displayed. Type `.' to | |
2316 | display the message normally again. | |
2317 | ||
2318 | *** New function `mh-list-sequences' lists the sequences in use in the | |
2319 | current folder. | |
2320 | ||
2321 | *** New function `mh-version' displays version information about MH | |
2322 | and mh-e. Please use the output in bug reports. | |
2323 | ||
2324 | *** `mh-quit' now burys the folder buffer and show buffer. | |
2325 | ||
2326 | ||
2327 | ** New hooks and customization variables in mh-e 4.0 | |
2328 | ||
2329 | *** `mh-pick-mode-hook': new hook called by new mode `mh-pick-mode'. | |
2330 | The pick buffer didn't used to have its own mode. Another advantage of | |
2331 | `mh-pick-mode' is that `C-h m' works in the pick buffer. | |
2332 | ||
2333 | *** `mail-citation-hook': new variable for supercite. | |
2334 | ||
2335 | *** `mh-refile-msg-hook': new hook called by `mh-refile-msg' (and | |
2336 | `mh-refile-or-write-again' when refiling). | |
2337 | ||
2338 | *** `mh-msg-folder-hook': new hook used by `mh-refile-msg' and | |
2339 | `mh-to-fcc' to provide a default folder for user prompt. | |
2340 | ||
2341 | *** `mh-show-hook': new hook called by `mh-show'. | |
2342 | ||
2343 | *** `mh-delete-msg-hook': new hook called by `mh-delete-msg'. | |
2344 | ||
2345 | *** `mh-show-mode-hook': new hook called by new mode `mh-show-mode' | |
2346 | for `show-' buffers. | |
2347 | ||
2348 | *** `mh-comp-formfile': new variable so can customize `components' | |
2349 | file. | |
2350 | ||
2351 | *** `mh-sortm-args': new variable, a list of extra arguments to be | |
2352 | passed to sortm by `mh-sort-folder'. Give an argument to | |
2353 | `mh-sort-folder' to suppress this behavior. | |
2354 | ||
2355 | *** `mh-send-prog': new variable so can customize name of `send' | |
2356 | program in case of name conflicts. | |
2357 | ||
2358 | *** `mh-scan-prog': new variable so can customize name of `scan' | |
2359 | program to generate custom effects. | |
2360 | ||
2361 | *** `mh-inc-prog': new variable so can customize name of `inc' program | |
2362 | to do fancy management of incoming messages. | |
2363 | ||
2364 | *** `mh-forwarded-letter-subject': new function used by `mh-forward' | |
2365 | to compute the Subject line of the new message. It is a small function | |
2366 | which can be replaced by the user for customization. Uses the new | |
2367 | variable `mh-forward-subject-format', which allows some simple | |
2368 | customizations without rewriting even `mh-forwarded-letter-subject'. | |
2369 | ||
2370 | *** `mh-new-draft-cleaned-headers': new variable, header lines removed | |
2371 | by `mh-edit-again' and `mh-extract-rejected-mail' before offering a | |
2372 | message as a new draft. | |
2373 | ||
2374 | *** `mh-signature-file-name': new variable used by | |
2375 | `mh-insert-signature' to so can customize name of the file to insert. | |
2376 | ||
2377 | *** `mh-read-address': new function called to read all To: and Cc: | |
2378 | addresses. | |
2379 | ||
2380 | *** `mh-msg-folder-hook': new hook used by `mh-refile-msg' and | |
2381 | `mh-to-fcc' to provide a default folder for user prompt. | |
2382 | ||
2383 | ||
2384 | ** Key binding changes in mh-e 4.0 | |
2385 | ||
2386 | *** `,' runs new function `mh-header-display'. It is like `.' but it | |
2387 | displays *all* the headers. | |
2388 | ||
2389 | *** `M-#' runs the new function `mh-delete-seq'. One used to have to | |
2390 | type `C-u M-%' to delete a sequence. | |
2391 | ||
2392 | *** `<' no longer does `mh-first-msg', but `M->' now does | |
2393 | `mh-last-msg'. This allows first and last to be consistent (`>' was | |
2394 | taken) and is more likely to be discovered by chance anyway. | |
2395 | ||
2396 | *** `M-d' runs `mh-redistribute', `r' runs `mh-reply' (on the theory | |
2397 | that the more commonly used function should be easier to type, and the | |
2398 | obscure action of redistributing can be harder to type). | |
2399 | ||
2400 | *** `M-o' changed to `C-o' (`mh-write-msg-to-file'). It was | |
2401 | interfering with arrow keys for some people. | |
2402 | ||
2403 | *** `M-n' now runs `mh-store-msg' (formerly `mh-unshar-msg'). | |
2404 | ||
2405 | *** `b' no longer runs `mh-quit'; use `q' instead. `b' may be used in | |
2406 | a future version for something else. | |
2407 | ||
2408 | ||
2409 | ** Minor improvements to mh-e 4.0 | |
2410 | ||
2411 | *** The mh-e code is now divided into multiple Emacs Lisp files, so it | |
2412 | starts up faster because Emacs doesn't have to load all of it at once. | |
2413 | (This change also makes it easier for the maintainer to manage | |
2414 | things.) | |
2415 | ||
2416 | *** When searching for the directory containing the MH programs, | |
2417 | search the user's PATH in addition to the built-in directories, to | |
2418 | increase the chance of finding the MH programs. | |
2419 | ||
2420 | *** The subject for a forwarded message no longer has ugly square | |
2421 | brackets around it. | |
2422 | ||
2423 | *** The name of the folder is no longer appears twice in the show | |
2424 | buffer mode line. | |
2425 | ||
2426 | *** When typing a folder name in the minibuffer, parent folders | |
2427 | complete to the trailing slash (/), for easier typing of subfolders. | |
2428 | ||
2429 | *** The folder buffer mode name changed from `mh-e scan' or `mh-e | |
2430 | show' to `MH-Folder', which makes the hook name easier to guess. Added | |
2431 | `mh-showing' to `minor-mode-alist' so there is still an indication in | |
2432 | the mode line of whether messages will be shown automatically. | |
2433 | ||
2434 | *** `mh-rename-seq' does completion on the old sequence name. | |
2435 | ||
2436 | *** If called by a user who has never used MH on this system before, | |
2437 | mh-e runs the MH program `install-mh' to get them set up. | |
2438 | ||
2439 | *** Undo history for previous messages is not kept to avoid wasting | |
2440 | memory. | |
2441 | ||
2442 | *** The internal temp buffer used by mh-e has `buffer-offer-save' | |
2443 | explicitly nil. This change benefits people who change the | |
2444 | `buffer-offer-save' default. | |
2445 | ||
2446 | ||
2447 | ** Bug fixes to mh-e 4.0 | |
2448 | ||
2449 | *** `mh-to-field': don't bomb if no To: field. | |
2450 | ||
2451 | *** `mh-get-new-mail': restore annotations, e.g., cur, even if no new | |
2452 | mail. | |
2453 | ||
2454 | *** `mh-rename-seq': verify that the new seq name was accepted by | |
2455 | `mark' before updating state. | |
2456 | ||
2457 | *** `mh-internal-seq': the Previous sequence is not notated, since it | |
2458 | would notate everything scanned. | |
2459 | ||
2460 | *** `mh-read-draft': don't call `find-file-noselect' so an | |
2461 | `auto-mode-alist' doesn't trigger `mh-letter-mode-hook' twice. Faster, | |
2462 | too. | |
2463 | ||
2464 | *** `mh-show': If user moves onto a message that doesn't exist, don't | |
2465 | leave the cursor in the show pane. | |
2466 | ||
2467 | *** `mh-delete-scan-msgs': use `equal', not `=', on the result of | |
2468 | `mh-get-msg-num', since it may be nil. | |
2469 | ||
2470 | *** `mh-get-field': do anchored search so searching for `reply-to:' | |
2471 | doesn't find `in-reply-to:'. | |
2472 | ||
2473 | *** `mh-widen': do nothing if not narrowed. | |
2474 | ||
2475 | *** `mh-clean-message-header': find end of headers even if no body. | |
2476 | ||
2477 | \f | |
2478 | Local variables: | |
2479 | mode: outline | |
2480 | paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$" | |
2481 | end: | |
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2483 | arch-tag: f6696cad-eb1b-4c5f-8057-4e3954a98d18 |