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- MT-NewsWatcher 2.4.4
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- MT-NewsWatcher 2.4.4 fixes some bugs in 2.4.1 - 2.4.3. Some of these are quite
- serious, and users are strongly recommeneded to upgrade.
-
- Please note that some of the keyboard shortcuts have changed, as well as the
- reply quoting behaviour:
-
- Ñ╩Changed quoting behaviour on followup and reply:
- If any text is selected in the article being replied to, then this
- is used as the quoted text.
- If no text is selected, then the whole article (minus properly
- delimited sigs) is quoted.
-
- Ñ╩Changed menu command shortcuts:
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- News menu:
- Removed shift-variant 'quoting selection' options; the new quoting
- method makes them obsolete.
- Use command-shift R for Reply by email
- Use command-option R for Remove Read.
- Use command-K for Followup
-
- 'Refilter' has no shortcut, as it will be used less often
- then 'Remove read' by most people.
-
- New features
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-
- * Shared menus are now supported, so that apps like URL Manager Pro and Frontier can add their
- own menu to MT-NewsWatcher's menu bar.
-
- * The YA-NewsWatcher Apple Events suite is supported. This contains events to read the headers
- and contents of article windows, and read and write the contents of message windows.
- See the enclosed document "MT-NewsWatcher AppleEvent support" for more information.
-
- * There are new keyboard shortcuts for navigating through threads with open article
- windows. Instead of clicking the arrows in the top right corner of article windows,
- you can use the following:
- Command-page up Go to previous article
- Command-page down Go to next article
- Command-home Go to start of the current thread
- Command-end Go to end of the current thread
-
- Sorry, Powerbook users won't be able to use these shortcuts without a utility
- to remap the navigation keys.
-
- * Implemented relative dates in subject windows, controlled by a preference in the
- "Subject window" preferences panel.
-
- * Added dialog to warn uses about changes in shortcuts (it's shown only once when you first
- run 2.4.4).
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- Bug fixes
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- Ñ╩Bugs fixed in 2.4.4
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- * Fixed a crash when doing a 'Find again' after finding the last item in the Full groups window.
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- Ñ Bugs fixed in 2.4.3
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- * Fixed problem on quoting text of a garbage character appearing on the last line.
- * Fixed a bug in 2.4.1 that caused Redirected message to lose the body text.
- * Fixed a bug that could cause crashes if extracting binaries and the decode helper was not found.
- * Disallow an empty quote string in the Message prefs.
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- Ñ╩Bugs fixed in 2.4.2
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- * Fixed bug setting newsgroups for a new message created when an article window is foremost.
- * Fixed bug where new groups were not being saved back to the full groups list.
- * Infinity Windoid resource no longer preloads, savind a few Kb of memory when it's not used
- (on systems 7.5 and up).
- * Fixed a bug in the article cacheing code that could cause the article cache to become very large
- (and cause out of memory errors and slow filtering).
- * Optimized memory use, which should also speed up filtering somewhat (use malloc/free for small
- filter blocks).
- * Tweaked the URL parsing code to find URLs in quoted text more reliably.
- * Fixed possible crashes on error when opening FTP or SMTP connections.
- * Added support for 'Mail-Copies-To: sender'
- * Improved accuracy of signature length detection, and reduced level of obnoxion of the warning
- message.
- * When quoting text in replies, no longer quote trailing empty lines. Also put in an blank line,
- and place the caret on the next line ready for typing.
- * Fixed a problem with the Windows menu that caused it to select the wrong window when a
- non-floating tasks window was foremost.
- * Fixed a problem that could cause the generation of weird path headers.
- * The tasks window can be resized even when collapsed now.
- * Exported filters no longer all have Expire times.
- * Exported filter text no longer refers to the obsolete YA FilterToText/TextToFilter converters.
- * Auto checks for new articles can no longer start up and clash with existing tasks for
- a group window.
-
- Ñ What happened to 2.4.2 and 2.4.3?
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- These were released to beta testing, but never made it out for public consumption. And
- since the implementation of the YA-NW AppleEvents suite justifies a jump in minor revision
- number, the release became 2.4.4.
-
- Simon Fraser
- smfr@best.com
- http://www.best.com/~smfr/mtnw/
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