warsaw@cme.nist.gov (Barry A. Warsaw) (08/03/90)
Archive-name: supercite/03-Aug-90
Original-posting-by: warsaw@cme.nist.gov (Barry A. Warsaw)
Original-subject: Supercite 2.1 public release
Archive-site: durer.cme.nist.gov [129.6.32.4]
Archive-directory: /pub/gnu/elisp
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
Hello everyone. Supercite version 2.1 is now ready for public release.
For those who do not know, supercite is a sophisticated package for
citing original messages in the replied and/or forwarded message.
Supercite is intended for use with Gnu emacs version 18.55.
Ever wanted to change the default way RMAIL, GNUS and other mail/news
packages cited the yanked original message, or was wondering how
people got those replies that look like:
Jane> She wrote this.
John> He wrote this.
and I wrote this.
Check out supercite...
In brief, here are the changes since version 2.0 (released in October '89):
1) Overloading has been entirely rewritten and should now be much
easier to use (for those who can't or won't patch distribution
elisp).
2) Non-nested citations are now composed of 4 parts, the citation
leader, the attribution string, the citation delimiter, and the
citation separator. This lets you indent (with tabs) cited
bodies of text.
3) No more dependencies on sendmail.el and mail-utils.el.
4) Alists are buffer local so you can use supercite in more than 1
reply buffer in the same emacs session.
5) Electric reference mode is rewritten, and should be cleaner to
use.
6) For the first time, I've added a smaller version of supercite
(called "Cheapcite") which is for those who think supercite is
too big, but still like the citation style (no doubt some will
consider Cheapcite to big. Oh well...).
7) New functions, bug fixes, typos, etc...
No diffs are available to v2.0, so I'm sending out the whole thing as
two shar files (which will come in messages to follow). I am
refraining from compressing the files, due to the recent uncertainty
over particular compression algorithms' patent status and other
spooge. Also, version 2.1 is now available via anonymous ftp from
durer.cme.nist.gov (129.6.32.4) in
pub/gnu/elisp/supercite-2.1.shar.0{1,2}.
Enjoy, and join the supercite mailing list if you're interested in
discussing the package (see address below), though it might take a
little while to process additions/deletions. I should mention that
tomorrow (8/3/90) is my last day at NIST. I'll be on the internet at
my new job, and the supercite mailing list will still exist for the
time being; I'm just not sure exactly when I'll get to catching up on
its traffic. Hopefully soon.
-Barry
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