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- This is the distribution of Supercite 2.3, released January 1993, It is an
- elisp utility to do fancy citing of reply messages for various mail and
- news reading subsystems for GNU emacs. This version fixes bugs that arose
- when porting supercite to Lucid Emacs 19.x. See the file ChangeLog for
- more details.
-
- LCD Entry:
- supercite|Barry A. Warsaw|bwarsaw@cen.com
- |Citation package for various mail and news readers
- |07-Jan-1993|2.3|
-
- The only substantive change between version 2.2, originally released in
- May 1991, and this version is that this version should work with both GNU
- emacs 18.59 and Lucid Emacs 19.3. The only thing that doesn't quite work
- in lemacs is the doc-string spoogification in the reply buffer; the
- supercite keybindings don't show up when doing a describe-mode. I suspect
- this is no big deal for most people. I'll be looking into this for version
- 3.0 which is still in development.
-
- One important change is that sc-electric.el has been renamed to sc-elec.el
- to avoid problems with 14-char-max filename Un*x's. This should be a
- transparent change.
-
- The rest of this README covers changes from version 2.1 to 2.2.
-
- Things removed:
-
- * Cheapcite. Consider this a failed experiment ;-}. I conducted a
- poll of the supercite listers and it turns out nobody was really
- using it anyway (at least no one who responded). Plus it was
- just too hard to maintain 2 versions of the same code, and
- cheapcite didn't really appear to improve the benefit/size
- costs. If you still want cheapcite, get it from the 2.1
- distribution.
-
- * MH-E overloading. This version of supercite is based on emacs
- 18.57 and the mh-e.el mode distributed with emacs 18.57 now
- supports the necessary hooks. Nothing prohibits you from using
- supercite 2.3 with emacs versions before 18.57, but if you use
- MH-E mode with these earlier versions, either save the
- overloading routines from version 2.1 sc-oloads.el, or grab
- mh-e.el from 18.57. I understand its drop-in compatible (but I
- don't use MH-E so I don't know for sure that this is the case).
-
- Things added:
-
- * sc.texinfo. Yes, I actually got motivated to write a texinfo
- manual for this beast. I think it beats the hell out of
- sc-describe and so I've chopped all that sc-describe stuff out.
-
- * nicknames. A new variable sc-nickname-alist for matching names
- to nicknames on a one to many basis. Nicknames can't currently
- be automatically used for attribution strings, but will always
- be presented in attribution completions.
-
- * GNEWS overloads.
-
- * new variable sc-header-nuke-list for easier user defining mail
- headers which get zapped.
-
- * new variable sc-spacify-name-chars for converting certain funny
- characters which can be found in names to spaces.
-
- * new variable sc-all-but-cite-p for setting up all supercite
- info, but not citing included text. Good for manually citing
- portions of large messages.
-
- * new variable sc-auto-fill-query-each-paragraph-p for really fine
- control of auto filling.
-
- * new command sc-view-field (C-c f), similar to, but different
- than, sc-modify-information.
-
- * new info keys (for use with sc-field): "sc-reply-address" and
- "sc-from-address".
-
- Things fixed or changed:
-
- * electric reference mode has been improved slightly so that you
- shouldn't ever encounter a catastrophic error, where your keymap
- is fried. it now works slightly differently and some of the
- redundant keybindings were removed.
-
- * changed sc-run-hook to sc-post-hook and added sc-pre-hook. You
- might want to use these for pre- and post- processing (i.e.
- changing the header rewrite style based on replying or following
- up).
-
- * sc-cite-original no longer binds sc-electric-p to nil so you
- can be automatically dropped into electric referencing mode in
- the first yank of the message.
-
- * renamed all files to begin with sc for consistency (and popular
- demand).
-
- * sc-cite-regexp was enhanced to help with inconsistent citation
- warnings.
-
- * sc-version takes a numeric argument for inserting into a buffer.
-
- * massive rewrite of built-in header rewrite functions. they now
- are more intelligent about what they insert. No more "mumble"
- strings! Also, changed sc-header-regarding-writes to
- sc-header-regarding-adds, and put back sc-header-verbose due to
- popular demand. Finally, added sc-no-blank-line-or-header.
-
- * many bug fixes and optimizations.
-
-
- -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
- This package should contain the following files:
-
- sc-alist.el Association list utilities
- sc-elec.el Electric insert mode
- sc-oloads.el Overloading functions
- sc.el Supercite version 2.3 main file
- sc.texinfo Texinfo manual for supercite version 2.3
- README Introduction to supercite version 2.3 (this file)
- ChangeLog Differences from version 2.1
-
- Supercite 2.3 has been tested and is known to work with VM 4.37+, VM 5.x
- and MH-E 3.7 (distributed with emacs 18.57) out of the box. It is
- compatible with GNU emacs 18.58+, and Lucid Emacs 19.3+. Supercite will
- work with GNUS 3.12+, RMAIL, RNEWS, GNEWS, PCMAIL, and other packages,
- once the proper functions have been overloaded (see below).
-
- To learn more about linking to and using supercite, see the associated
- texinfo manual. For those who aren't familiar with GNU's standard
- method of distributing documentation manuals, texinfo files can be
- used to generate both an on-line and hard copy version of a manual
- from a single ascii file. Texinfo files can be processed by the TeX
- typesetting system (not written by GNU, but freely available from many
- ftp sites) and converted into PostScript or other printer ready
- formats. Also, the same texinfo file can be processed within emacs to
- generate an "info" file, suitable for emacs' on-line info browser.
-
- I believe the emacs distribution comes with an info node called
- Texinfo which describes how to generate both hardcopy and on-line
- manuals from a given texinfo file (such as sc.texinfo), as well as how
- to write such manuals yourself. To find out more about texinfo files,
- while in emacs, type "C-h i" to get you into the info browser, then
- type "mTexinfo <RET>" to enter the Texinfo branch. If you have
- problems, or for more information, contact the various emacs mailing
- lists or news groups. If you have problems specific to sc.texinfo,
- you can naturally contact the supercite mailing list for help.
-
- What follows below is a quick guide to connecting supercite to your
- favorite news/mail reader. It is excerpted from the texinfo file.
-
- -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
- Getting Connected
- *****************
- Early in supercite's development, the supercite author, many of the
- major reader subsystem authors, and some supercite users got together
- and agreed upon a standard interface between all readers and any
- supercite-like package (of which supercite is the only known one :-).
- *Note Hints to Reader Authors:: for more information on the details of
- this interface. You may want to also *Note Thanks and History:: for
- details on how this interface was proposed and adopted.
-
- Suffice to say that at the time of this writing (May 1991), only VM
- 4.37+ and MH-E 3.7 (as distributed with emacs 18.57) conform to this
- interface "out of the box." If you are connecting supercite to one of
- these two packages, you do not need overloading. All other reader
- packages must be modified to provide this interface. The file
- `sc-oloads.el' contains "overloading" routines which will allow
- you to connect supercite with any of the known major readers currently
- in existence (*Note Overloading for Selected Readers::). This includes:
- GNUS 3.12+, GNEWS, RMAIL 18.55+, RNEWS 18.55+ and PCMAIL. If you are
- using a reader package other than one of those mentioned above, contact
- the supercite mailing list about getting or writing overloading
- functions for that package (*Note The Supercite Mailing List::).
-
- Quick Guide for All Readers
- ===========================
- For any reader package except MH-E, you will need to connect supercite
- to the standard hook variable `mail-yank-hooks'. MH-E users will
- need to connect supercite to `mh-yank-hooks'. The supercite
- function `sc-cite-original' is intended to be run from a hook. It
- not only cites the text, also does much pre- and post-processing on the
- reply buffer (*Note Replying and Yanking::) so it should be the first
- supercite function to be called on a raw reply buffer. Thus, you will
- need one of the following two lines in your `.emacs' file:
-
- (setq mail-yank-hooks 'sc-cite-original) ; for all but MH-E
- (setq mh-yank-hooks 'sc-cite-original) ; for MH-E only
-
- Also, if supercite is not compiled into your emacs image, you will need
- to set up the following autoload, also in your `.emacs' file:
-
- (autoload 'sc-cite-original "sc" "Supercite 2.3" t)
-
- Supercite will run the user definable hook `sc-load-hook' after
- loading. Default value for this variable is `nil'.
-
- Overloading for Selected Readers
- ================================
-
- Most readers contain hardwired citing styles (often unpopular!) which
- cannot be changed. For these readers, you are required to overload the
- necessary functions so that they call a hook (i.e., `mail-yank-hooks')
- after inserting the original text into the buffer. This hook can then
- be set to call `sc-cite-original' at the appropriate time.
-
- Once again, note that if you are connecting supercite to either MH-E 3.7
- or VM 4.37+, you do not need overloading and can skip this section.
-
- Quick Guide to Overloading
- --------------------------
-
- Since supercite's overloading routines are usually not loaded into your
- emacs session until they are needed, you should add the following small
- function to your `.emacs' file. This will load (via the `require') the
- supercite overloading package, and then actually overload the functions
- for the particular reader your are using. Only those original reader
- functions already bound will be overloaded, and they will only be
- overloaded once per session.
-
- (defun my-sc-overload-hook ()
- (require 'sc-oloads) ; be sure this file is on your load-path
- (sc-overload-functions))
-
- Next, you will need to find a hook in the reader which will be called at
- an appropriate time to execute `my-sc-overload-hook'. It can be
- something of a guessing game to find the right hook, but fortunately
- that's already been done for all the readers supercite currently knows
- about. You should put one of these two lines in your `.emacs' file:
-
- (setq news-reply-mode-hook 'my-sc-overload-hook) ; for RNEWS,GNEWS,GNUS
- (setq mail-setup-hook 'my-sc-overload-hook) ; for RMAIL,PCMAIL,GNUS
-
- Note that if you have `sc-oloads.el' compiled into your emacs image, you
- do not need `my-sc-overload-hook'. Instead just use one of the following
- code fragments:
-
- (setq news-reply-mode-hook 'sc-overload-functions) ; for RNEWS,GNEWS,GNUS
- (setq mail-setup-hook 'sc-overload-functions) ; for RMAIL,PCMAIL,GNUS
-
- -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
- Enjoy, and please send the author your questions, suggestions,
- patches, enhancements and bug reports. Don't forget, if you're
- interested in discussing supercite, join the mailing list by sending
- mail to the supercite-request address below.
-
- If you do send bug reports, please indicate the version of supercite
- and emacs that you are using and the name and version number of the
- reader package you're trying to interface with. This will help you in
- getting your problem resolved. There are many very helpful people on
- the mailing list, representing probably every supported reader
- subsystem. But no one person uses them all (well, definitely *not*
- the supercite author :-), and you want to be able to draw the
- attention of the right people.
-
- NAME: Barry A. Warsaw USMAIL: Century Computing, Inc.
- TELE: (301) 593-3330 1014 West Street
- INET: bwarsaw@cen.com Laurel, Md 20707
- UUCP: uunet!cen.com!bwarsaw
-
- Want to be on the Supercite mailing list?
-
- Send articles to:
- Internet: supercite@anthem.nlm.nih.gov
- UUCP: uunet!anthem.nlm.nih.gov!supercite
-
- Send administrivia (additions/deletions to list, etc) to:
- Internet: supercite-request@anthem.nlm.nih.gov
- UUCP: uunet!anthem.nlm.nih.gov!supercite-request
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