11.2.8.3 Red Gnus

New features in Gnus 5.4/5.5:

• nntp.el has been totally rewritten in an asynchronous fashion.
• Article prefetching functionality has been moved up into Gnus (see Asynchronous Fetching).
• Scoring can now be performed with logical operators like and, or, not, and parent redirection (see Advanced Scoring).
• Article washing status can be displayed in the article mode line (see Misc Article).
• gnus.el has been split into many smaller files.
• Suppression of duplicate articles based on Message-ID can be done (see Duplicate Suppression).

  (setq gnus-suppress-duplicates t)
  

• New variables for specifying what score and adapt files are to be considered home score and adapt files (see Home Score File) have been added.
• nndoc was rewritten to be easily extensible (see Document Server Internals).
• Groups can inherit group parameters from parent topics (see Topic Parameters).
• Article editing has been revamped and is now actually usable.
• Signatures can be recognized in more intelligent fashions (see Article Signature).
• Summary pick mode has been made to look more nn-like. Line numbers are displayed and the . command can be used to pick articles (Pick and Read).
• Commands for moving the .newsrc.eld from one server to another have been added (see Changing Servers).
• There’s a way now to specify that “uninteresting” fields be suppressed when generating lines in buffers (see Advanced Formatting).
• Several commands in the group buffer can be undone with C-M-_ (see Undo).
• Scoring can be done on words using the new score type w (see Score File Format).
• Adaptive scoring can be done on a Subject word-by-word basis (see Adaptive Scoring).

  (setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring '(word))
  

• Scores can be decayed (see Score Decays).

  (setq gnus-decay-scores t)
  

• Scoring can be performed using a regexp on the Date header. The Date is normalized to compact ISO 8601 format first (see Score File Format).
• A new command has been added to remove all data on articles from the native server (see Changing Servers).
• A new command for reading collections of documents (nndoc with nnvirtual on top) has been added—C-M-d (see Really Various Summary Commands).
• Process mark sets can be pushed and popped (see Setting Process Marks).
• A new mail-to-news back end makes it possible to post even when the NNTP server doesn’t allow posting (see Mail-To-News Gateways).
• A new back end for reading searches from Web search engines (DejaNews, Alta Vista, InReference) has been added (see Web Searches).
• Groups inside topics can now be sorted using the standard sorting functions, and each topic can be sorted independently (see Topic Sorting).
• Subsets of the groups can be sorted independently (Sorting Groups).
• Cached articles can be pulled into the groups (see Summary Generation Commands).
• Score files are now applied in a more reliable order (see Score Variables).
• Reports on where mail messages end up can be generated (see Splitting Mail).
• More hooks and functions have been added to remove junk from incoming mail before saving the mail (see Washing Mail).
• Emphasized text can be properly fontisized: