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- User-visible changes to mh-e in version 5.0 from 4.1.
-
- Note: This being a major release, there are many internal changes.
- This document lists only changes to the external interfaces of mh-e.
-
- When upgrading, you must either explicitly reload the new versions of
- all mh-e files that are already loaded or restart your Emacs.
-
- mh-e 5.0.1 contains minor changes from mh-e 5.0 to integrate it with
- Emacs 19.29.
-
- Major Changes and New Features in mh-e
- ======================================
-
- The emphasis for this release has been on consistency and
- documentation. Many documentation strings were enhanced.
- Documentation strings were changed to comments for internal functions
- and variables.
-
- There is now proper documentation in the form of a 75-page users
- manual. The Texinfo source is mh-e.texi; the formatted Info document
- is mh-e.info.
-
- There is a new command `mh-update-sequences', which updates MH's
- idea of what messages are in the Unseen sequence and what is the current
- folder and message. `mh-quit' calls it. While `mh-execute-commands'
- has always done this updating as a side effect, the new function is
- faster.
-
- The MH profile entry "Inbox:" is supported.
-
- If the show-buffer is modified, the user is queried before mh-e
- reuses the buffer to show a different message. This buffer is also
- auto-saved and backed up correctly.
-
- `mh-store-buffer' is significantly more robust. It now handles
- messages created by a wide variety of packaging software. The status
- message for `uudecode' includes the name of the file created. An error
- is signaled if the subprocess exits with a non-zero status.
-
- `mh-search-folder' behaves predictably, adding messages found to the
- `search' sequence. It correctly handles the case of no messages found.
-
- `mh-burst-digest' (`M-b') now only rescans the part of the folder
- affected by the burst. It is now much faster in a large folder.
-
- New mh-e Hooks and Customization Variables
- ==========================================
-
- `mh-default-folder-for-message-function': new name for the old
- `mh-msg-folder-hook', which wasn't a hook. The old name was confusing,
- leading people to think they could use `add-hook' with it, when
- actually `setq' is the correct way.
-
- `mh-sortm-args': When this variable is used has changed. Now
- `mh-sortm-args' is passed if there IS a prefix argument to
- `mh-sort-folder'. The assumption is that for arguments you normally
- want, you would specify them in an MH profile entry.
-
- `mh-mhn-args': new hook, a list of additional arguments to pass to
- the `mhn' program if `mh-edit-mhn' is given a prefix argument.
-
- `mh-edit-mhn-hook': new hook called by `mh-edit-mhn', the function
- that formats MIME messages.
-
- `mh-folder-list-change-hook': new hook, called whenever the cached
- list of folders, `mh-folder-list', is changed.
-
- `mh-find-path-hook': new hook, called when entering mh-e.
-
- `mh-repl-formfile': new variable, used to change the format file
- used by `mh-reply' from the default of "replcomps".
-
- New variables to customize the scan format and notating:
- `mh-note-deleted', `mh-note-refiled', `mh-note-seq', `mh-note-cur',
- `mh-note-copied', `mh-note-printed'.
-
- Key Binding Changes in mh-e
- ===========================
-
- `RET' runs `mh-show' for consistency with the Finder and Info. The
- old binding `.' still works, but `RET' is now the standard binding.
-
- `M-<' now runs `mh-first-msg' for consistency with `M->', which runs
- `mh-last-msg'.
-
- `C-c C-f C-d' in MH-Letter mode moves to a Dcc: header field.
-
- `C-c C-f C-r' in MH-Letter mode moves to a From: header field.
-
- `g' is now the standard binding for `mh-goto-msg'. The old binding
- `j' still works.
-
- Other Improvements and Changes to mh-e
- ======================================
-
- `mh-lpr-command-format' no longer passes the "-p" argument to `lpr'
- by default. The mail header typically has the date anyway.
-
- When prompting for a sequence name, if no sequences have been used
- yet, mh-e will offer the first sequence the current message is in.
-
- The patterns of more mailers are recognized by
- `mh-extract-rejected-mail'.
-
- `mh-insert-prefix-string' no longer wraps the call to the
- `mail-citation-hook' function in a `save-excursion' so the hook writer
- can choose whether to leave point at the beginning or the end of the
- yanked text.
-
- `mh-write-msg-to-file': The prompt now refers to "message" or
- "message body" depending on which will be written. (This is controlled
- by a prefix argument.) The file defaults to the last-used file instead
- of supplying only the directory name.
-
- mh-e uses message ranges when running MH commands. Thus "rmm 1 2 3
- 4 6" is now "rmm 1-4 6". This change makes it less likely to overflow
- system argument list limits, and it might be faster, too.
-
- Bug Fixes to mh-e
- =================
-
- mh-e's idea of the unseen sequence now stays in sync with MH's
- better.
-
- Functions that are supposed to find fields in the message header no
- longer look in the message body.
-
- mh-e would sometimes fail to remove the "%" from a scan line when the
- message was removed from a sequence if the message was also in the
- Previous sequence.
-
- The variable `mh-inc-prog' is now correctly used in all places.
-
- `mh-pipe-msg' runs the process in the correct directory.
-
- A partially scanned folder will no longer lose the "/select"
- annotation when you execute marked deletes and refiles with `x'.
-
-