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From: kddlab!photon.stars.flab.fujitsu.junet!umerin@UUNET.UU.NET (Masanobu UMEDA)
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Subject: enhancements?
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Date: 13 Oct 88 05:03:16 GMT
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   Date: Thu, 6 Oct 88 09:49:23 PDT
   From: Ricardo A. Cardenas <flab!fgw!uunet!oracle!rcardena>

   (1) One of the big things is allowing general searching capabilities
   thru articles (not only through some fields in the headers) such as rn's
   "/pattern/a".  I use this a lot and sometimes switch to rn to get it.

Next version (probably 3.10) will have commands,

	gnus-Subject-search-article-{forward,backward}.

These commands search for articles which contains a REGEXP.

   (2) Will there be a new GNUS with better KILL file support - allowing to
   search through other header fields, and through article if possible,
   also more COMMANDs?

If you come up with much better KILL file, please drop me. I don't
like current implementation, either. Better way is to make it lisp-nize.

   (3) the emacs mode line for the *Article* buffer should show some'n like

	   news.group (Art#/LastArt#)

The next version will have a mode line like:

	news.group{BEGIN-END} CURRENT

I'm planning to ignore global-mode-string in article buffer. The
variable is usually used for displaying current time and other useful
information. The same information is displayed in subject buffer.
There is no need to show it two points.

   (4) articles should not be marked read when you start reading them, but
   rather when you are done reading them, like in rn.  In this way, you
   don't have to mark an article as unread if you must leave before you
   finish reading it.

Most of the time reader wants to mark an article as read when he/she
read all or part of it. That's why it is so in GNUS.

   (5) What about being able to do searches and reads on past articles

`^' command of the next version will be improved. The command will be
able to show a parent article unless the article is expired.

Masanobu UMEDA
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