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| 1 User-visible changes to mh-e in version 5.0 from 4.1. | |
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| 3 Note: This being a major release, there are many internal changes. | |
| 4 This document lists only changes to the external interfaces of mh-e. | |
| 5 | |
| 6 When upgrading, you must either explicitly reload the new versions of | |
| 7 all mh-e files that are already loaded or restart your Emacs. | |
| 8 | |
| 9 mh-e 5.0.1 contains minor changes from mh-e 5.0 to integrate it with | |
| 10 Emacs 19.29. | |
| 11 | |
| 12 mh-e 5.0.2 contains additional minor changes to integrate it with | |
| 13 reporter.el (requires reporter.el version 3.1c or later) and Emacs | |
| 14 19.30. The mh-goto-msg function is much faster, which also speeds up | |
| 15 several other operations. | |
| 16 | |
| 17 Major Changes and New Features in mh-e | |
| 18 ====================================== | |
| 19 | |
| 20 The emphasis for this release has been on consistency and | |
| 21 documentation. Many documentation strings were enhanced. | |
| 22 Documentation strings were changed to comments for internal functions | |
| 23 and variables. | |
| 24 | |
| 25 There is now proper documentation in the form of a 75-page users | |
| 26 manual. The Texinfo source is mh-e.texi; the formatted Info document | |
| 27 is mh-e.info. | |
| 28 | |
| 29 There is a new command `mh-update-sequences', which updates MH's | |
| 30 idea of what messages are in the Unseen sequence and what is the current | |
| 31 folder and message. `mh-quit' calls it. While `mh-execute-commands' | |
| 32 has always done this updating as a side effect, the new function is | |
| 33 faster. | |
| 34 | |
| 35 The MH profile entry "Inbox:" is supported. | |
| 36 | |
| 37 If the show-buffer is modified, the user is queried before mh-e | |
| 38 reuses the buffer to show a different message. This buffer is also | |
| 39 auto-saved and backed up correctly. | |
| 40 | |
| 41 `mh-store-buffer' is significantly more robust. It now handles | |
| 42 messages created by a wide variety of packaging software. The status | |
| 43 message for `uudecode' includes the name of the file created. An error | |
| 44 is signaled if the subprocess exits with a non-zero status. | |
| 45 | |
| 46 `mh-search-folder' behaves predictably, adding messages found to the | |
| 47 `search' sequence. It correctly handles the case of no messages found. | |
| 48 | |
| 49 `mh-burst-digest' (`M-b') now only rescans the part of the folder | |
| 50 affected by the burst. It is now much faster in a large folder. | |
| 51 | |
| 52 New mh-e Hooks and Customization Variables | |
| 53 ========================================== | |
| 54 | |
| 55 `mh-default-folder-for-message-function': new name for the old | |
| 56 `mh-msg-folder-hook', which wasn't a hook. The old name was confusing, | |
| 57 leading people to think they could use `add-hook' with it, when | |
| 58 actually `setq' is the correct way. | |
| 59 | |
| 60 `mh-sortm-args': When this variable is used has changed. Now | |
| 61 `mh-sortm-args' is passed if there IS a prefix argument to | |
| 62 `mh-sort-folder'. The assumption is that for arguments you normally | |
| 63 want, you would specify them in an MH profile entry. | |
| 64 | |
| 65 `mh-mhn-args': new hook, a list of additional arguments to pass to | |
| 66 the `mhn' program if `mh-edit-mhn' is given a prefix argument. | |
| 67 | |
| 68 `mh-edit-mhn-hook': new hook called by `mh-edit-mhn', the function | |
| 69 that formats MIME messages. | |
| 70 | |
| 71 `mh-folder-list-change-hook': new hook, called whenever the cached | |
| 72 list of folders, `mh-folder-list', is changed. | |
| 73 | |
| 74 `mh-find-path-hook': new hook, called when entering mh-e. | |
| 75 | |
| 76 `mh-repl-formfile': new variable, used to change the format file | |
| 77 used by `mh-reply' from the default of "replcomps". | |
| 78 | |
| 79 New variables to customize the scan format and notating: | |
| 80 `mh-note-deleted', `mh-note-refiled', `mh-note-seq', `mh-note-cur', | |
| 81 `mh-note-copied', `mh-note-printed'. | |
| 82 | |
| 83 Key Binding Changes in mh-e | |
| 84 =========================== | |
| 85 | |
| 86 `RET' runs `mh-show' for consistency with the Finder and Info. The | |
| 87 old binding `.' still works, but `RET' is now the standard binding. | |
| 88 | |
| 89 `M-<' now runs `mh-first-msg' for consistency with `M->', which runs | |
| 90 `mh-last-msg'. | |
| 91 | |
| 92 `C-c C-f C-d' in MH-Letter mode moves to a Dcc: header field. | |
| 93 | |
| 94 `C-c C-f C-r' in MH-Letter mode moves to a From: header field. | |
| 95 | |
| 96 `g' is now the standard binding for `mh-goto-msg'. The old binding | |
| 97 `j' still works. | |
| 98 | |
| 99 Other Improvements and Changes to mh-e | |
| 100 ====================================== | |
| 101 | |
| 102 `mh-lpr-command-format' no longer passes the "-p" argument to `lpr' | |
| 103 by default. The mail header typically has the date anyway. | |
| 104 | |
| 105 When prompting for a sequence name, if no sequences have been used | |
| 106 yet, mh-e will offer the first sequence the current message is in. | |
| 107 | |
| 108 The patterns of more mailers are recognized by | |
| 109 `mh-extract-rejected-mail'. | |
| 110 | |
| 111 `mh-insert-prefix-string' no longer wraps the call to the | |
| 112 `mail-citation-hook' function in a `save-excursion' so the hook writer | |
| 113 can choose whether to leave point at the beginning or the end of the | |
| 114 yanked text. | |
| 115 | |
| 116 `mh-write-msg-to-file': The prompt now refers to "message" or | |
| 117 "message body" depending on which will be written. (This is controlled | |
| 118 by a prefix argument.) The file defaults to the last-used file instead | |
| 119 of supplying only the directory name. | |
| 120 | |
| 121 mh-e uses message ranges when running MH commands. Thus "rmm 1 2 3 | |
| 122 4 6" is now "rmm 1-4 6". This change makes it less likely to overflow | |
| 123 system argument list limits, and it might be faster, too. | |
| 124 | |
| 125 Bug Fixes to mh-e | |
| 126 ================= | |
| 127 | |
| 128 mh-e's idea of the unseen sequence now stays in sync with MH's | |
| 129 better. | |
| 130 | |
| 131 Functions that are supposed to find fields in the message header no | |
| 132 longer look in the message body. | |
| 133 | |
| 134 mh-e would sometimes fail to remove the "%" from a scan line when the | |
| 135 message was removed from a sequence if the message was also in the | |
| 136 Previous sequence. | |
| 137 | |
| 138 The variable `mh-inc-prog' is now correctly used in all places. | |
| 139 | |
| 140 `mh-pipe-msg' runs the process in the correct directory. | |
| 141 | |
| 142 A partially scanned folder will no longer lose the "/select" | |
| 143 annotation when you execute marked deletes and refiles with `x'. | |
| 144 |