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- This document summarises new and significantly changed features
- in tin-1.4
-
- [ Changes are relative to the last original tin beta, 950824 ]
- [ Changes are included for releases up to pre-1.4-980105 ]
-
- Full details of all the tinrc flags can be found on the man page.
-
- Major additions
- ===============
-
- . Better MIME support
- New foreign charset support
- Integrated with metamail
- Many new associated tinrc variables
-
- . Full Colour support
- & to toggle while online, many new variables in tinrc
- Word highlighting, can be toggled with '_'
-
- . True References based threading
- 'u' to toggle threading in the group menu, settable in tinrc and
- as a per-group attribute. Various thread menu additions & enhancements
- to support this:
-
- 'u' in pager to goto parent
- 'L' in pager to search for a Message-Id
-
- Graphical threading tree in the Thread menu.
-
- . Now auto-configures and builds out of the box
- Much improved configurability. No more messy Makefiles to edit.
-
- . Configuration menu completely rewritten ('M')
- Most tinrc values can now be set in here.
- Searchable with '/' and '?'
-
- . Many speed-up improvements
-
- . Article Superseding
-
- . Full PGP and PGP-5 support
-
- . Support for multiple news servers
-
- . Newsserver authorisation fully supported
-
- . Many enhancements to article filtering: true article
- scoring and new filter types, such as filtering on crossposts
-
- . Full regular expression support using libpcre (Perl-compatible
- regular expression Library)
-
- . Seperate history is now kept for most input types (eg searching)
- Cursor keys can be used to scroll back/forwards/left/right through
- the input.
-
- Other enhancements
- ==================
-
- Global keys
- -----------
-
- 'i' shows group description in main menu or article subject at all other levels
-
- '^' goes to top of current display
-
- Group menu
- ----------
- 'K', 'z', 'Z' now understand ranges
-
- Thread menu
- -----------
- '/'
- 'S'
- 'U' same functionality as in the group menu
-
- Pager
- -----
- ':' skips past quoted text in articles
-
- 'L' lookup article by message-id
-
- 'u' goto the parent of this article
-
-
- Help Screens / Configuration Screen
- -----------------------------------
- '/'
- '?' Searching now works
-
-
- Article length in lines shown in group and thead menu, can be
- turned off
-
- new_quote_format in attributes
-
- mark forwarded text ??? 0713
-
- locale support
-
- article postponement / reposting with ^O
-
- New newsgroup handling completely rewritten
-
- handling for bogus groups in newsrc
-
- -N flag
-
- -p <port> flag
-
- -d flag
-
- -Q flag
-
- user configurable header display in pager
-
- local overview cacheing for speed on slow links
-
- $SPAMTRAP
-
- Can be built with curses, to give gpm support and scrolling option
- and help screens.
-
- Plus of course, countless bug fixes and doubtless some new ones.
-
- New flags in tinrc
- ------------------
- Lots....
-