zephyr.el 2.2

This document describes changes from zephyr.el 2.0 to zephyr.el 2.2. For more details, see zephyr.el itself.

First, the bad news:

Changes you may need to make

If you use zephyr.el or the sample zephyr setup in

/usr/misc/.lemacs/lisp/local-pkgs/sample-setups/zephyr-setup.el

• These variables for controlling your subscriptions are now obsolete:
  • zephyr-instances-ignore-regexp
  • zephyr-instances-accept-regexp
  • zephyr-senders-ignore-regexp
  • zephyr-senders-accept-regexp
  • zephyr-senders-ignore-regexp
  • zephyr-senders-accept-regexp
  • zephyr-recipients-ignore-regexp
  • zephyr-recipients-accept-regexp
  • zephyr-recipients-always-accept-regexp
  • zephyr-opcodes-ignore-list
  • zephyr-opcodes-accept-list
  You should use the single variable zephyr-filters, which replaces all of these. See the instructions on using zephyr-filters.
• The use of zephyr-hook-list has changed. In general, zephyr-insert should be the last item on your zephyr-hook-list. The zephyr-notify-with-* functions (along with a few new functions) belong on the new zephyr-insert-hook-list. If you set zephyr-hook-list explicitly, remove everything after zephyr-insert and see the documentation for zephyr-insert-hook-list to see if you need to modify it.
• The variable zephyr-last-recipient is obsolete. If you set it, use zephyr-initial-history instead.
• The variable zephyr-send-hook has been renamed to zephyr-send-function.
• The variable zephyr-instance-xlate-hook has been renamed to zephyr-instance-xlate-function.
• You should use tzc version 2.2. This version is already installed as /usr/misc/bin/tzc (or /afs/cs/misc/others/@sys/others/omega/bin/tzc) for pmax_mach, sun4_mach, sun3_mach, i386_mach, rt_mach, vax_mach, alpha_osf1, and sun4c_411 platforms, and will be used by default. If you explicitly set zephyr-receive-program, make sure you point to that version and not the one in /afs/cs/user/dkindred/bin.

Cool new features

• "Hot" URLs, filenames, and message-ids. In incoming zephyrgrams, any URL, filename, or netnews message-id will be made into a "hot link." You can follow this link by moving the cursor onto the link and pressing return, or (in lemacs) by clicking on the link with the middle mouse button. When you follow a URL or message-id link, the document will be fetched using w3 (the emacs WWW browser). You can configure it to use Mosaic if you prefer (see instructions). Following a filename link will cause emacs to load the file normally. In order to activate this feature, you must insert the line

          (require 'zephyr-url)
  

  in your .emacs file, just after zephyr.el is loaded. If you use the sample setup, this feature will be activated automatically. You can get these hot links within VM, gnus, and mh-e, too (see more hot-url information).
• Ignore or subscribe to instances temporarily. If traffic is getting too heavy on some instance, you can use zephyr-ignore-temporarily to ignore those zephyrgrams for some number of minutes. Or, if you want to listen in on some instance (say, to get an answer to your question) for a while, use zephyr-subscribe-temporarily.
• Menus (under lemacs only). There is now a "Zephyr" menu in the menubar with some useful commands, as well as a list of the last 10 userids/instances from your zephyr history. This menu is also available as a popup menu with the right mouse button in any zephyr buffer. If you want to customize the menu, see the zephyr-menu and zephyr-history-menu-names variables.

Mundane new features

• The history-tracking (for M-p and M-n) is somewhat improved.
• "Recipient lists" are parsed. If you ("moe") receive a zephyr from "shemp" whose first line looks something like

          [larry moe curly]
  

  then those names are assumed to be the recipients of the zgram, and the entry "shemp,larry,curly" will be added to your history, so M-p will do the right thing (reply to all). If you want your outgoing zephyrgrams which go to several people to have recipient-lists, do

  (setq zephyr-send-function 'zephyr-send-show-multiple)
  

  If you use the sample setup, this will be turned on by default.
• The new zephyr-initial-history variable lets you put some default names in your zephyr history when you enter zephyr-mode.
• The new zephyr-history-ignore-regexp variable lets you filter out certain types of history entries. The default value will keep "(facilities.announce)" from ever appearing in your history, so you don't accidentally send to it.
• If you want to specify a function to run just after your zgram is sent, use the new zephyr-after-send-hook variable.

Assorted bug fixes

• Case is ignored in class names, so those annoying class "messagE" messages will work.