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authorAndreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org>1997-10-04 14:53:11 +0000
committerAndreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org>1997-10-04 14:53:11 +0000
commit3a3e53568579586d8c160f6d2e6532c41df940d1 (patch)
tree7087a89fe632aa02662f79b10b6384294a707e78 /news/knews
parentUpdate gated 3.5.5 -> 3.5.7. Mainly some bugfixes. (diff)
cosmetic changes using portlint, a really nice tool ;-)
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=8102
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-Knews is a threaded newsreader with an X Window interface that uses
-NNTP to get news. It displays the threads in a graphical tree.
-
-Full support for reading MIME articles, except message/partial.
-Some options that will improve things for people reading over slow lines:
-
+Knews is a threaded newsreader with an X Window interface that uses NNTP
+to get news. Threads are displayed in a graphical tree. Full support for
+reading MIME articles, except message/partial.
o Background threading of newsgroups
- o Doesn't have to read the active file or group descriptions on startup.
- o A mechansim for reading the spool directory.
- o Kill file support. Articles can be
- - marked read (killed), or
- - marked with color blobs, based on regular expressions.
- o Regular expression searching in articles and the newsgroup list.
- o XPAT searching.
- o Can use different fonts and colors for quoted text and headers in articles
+ o Doesn't have to read the active file or group descriptions on startup
+ o A mechansim for reading the spool directory
+ o Kill file support with color blobs
+ o Regular expression searching in articles and the newsgroup list
+ o XPAT searching
+ o Can use different fonts and colors for quoted text and headers in articles
o Lots of action procedures that can be tied to keys.
- o Supports multiple nntp servers.
- o Tagging of articles and saving or piping them in order.
- o Uudecode function. Not perfect, but handles most cases.
+ o Supports multiple nntp servers
+ o Tagging of articles and saving or piping them in order
+ o Uudecode function. Not perfect, but handles most cases
o article text widget is able to display wide-character fonts
o article tree has a 'vertical' layout by popular demand
o experimental: Decoding of 16 bit encoded charsets
o Mailcap file support
- o save thread data between sessions
- o article prefetch cache and 'trailing' cache.
- o Less restrictive locking of the interface,
- edit killfile and such while knews is busy.
- o Message-id lookup of articles.
+ o save thread data between sessions
+ o article prefetch cache and 'trailing' cache
+ o Less restrictive locking of the interface
+ o Message-id lookup of articles