1 The files in this directory are not (yet) part of the Gnus
2 distribution proper. They may later become part of the distribution,
3 or they may disappear altogether.
5 Please note that it is not good to just add this directory to
6 load-path: a number of files in this directory will become part of
7 more recent Emacs versions, so that you might be running obsolete
8 libraries with all kinds of ill effects.
10 The suggested method for installation is to copy those files that you
11 need to a directory which is in load-path.
13 Here is an overview of the files:
17 Provides the ELisp-based uncompface program. It is excellent
18 and practical (actually you can replace lisp/compface.el with
19 it), however the author is missing and the copyright has not
24 This file defines the command to search mails and persistent
25 articles with Namazu, which is a full-text search engine
26 distributed at http://namazu.org, and to browse its results
36 Interface to various full-text search engines. Provides less
37 functionality than gnus-namazu.el, but also supports programs
38 other than Namazu. Current implementation is restricted to
39 nnml folders, but could be extended for other backends.
46 Copies of the corresponding files from the Emacs lisp/mail/
47 directory, to provide features (occasionally) needed by Gnus which
48 may not be provided by the versions of these files in older Emacs
53 Obsolete interface to OpenSSL. Completely replaced by
54 lisp/tls.el, which supports both GnuTLS and OpenSSL. This
55 file will be removed eventually.
59 This file provides improved Unicode functionality. It defines
60 functions unify-8859-on-encoding-mode and
61 unify-8859-on-decoding-mode which unify the Latin-N charsets.
62 Without unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, composing a Latin-9 reply
63 to a Latin-1 posting, say, will produce a multipart posting (a
64 Latin-1 part and a Latin-9 part), or perhaps UTF-8. With
65 unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, the outgoing posting can be all
66 Latin-1 or all Latin-9 in most cases.
68 It is harmless to turn on unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, but
69 unify-8859-on-decoding-mode may unexpectedly change files in
70 certain situations. (If the file contains different Latin-N
71 charsets which should not be unified.)
73 This is part of Emacs 21.3 and later, which also turns on
74 unify-8859-on-encoding-mode by default.
80 This is used for parsing RSS feeds. Part of Emacs 21.3 and later.
81 Note that the version of this file in the Gnus contrib/ directory is
82 out of date with respect to the version in the Emacs tree.