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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
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'i' shows group description in main menu or article subject at all other levels
'^' goes to top of current display
Group menu
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'K', 'z', 'Z' now understand ranges
Thread menu
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'/'
'S'
'U' same functionality as in the group menu
Pager
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':' 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
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Lots....
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