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
   -----------

   'i' shows group description in main menu or article subject at all other levels

   '^' goes to top of current display

   Group menu
   ----------
   'K', 'z', 'Z' now understand ranges
 
   Thread menu
   -----------
   '/'
   'S'
   'U' same functionality as in the group menu

   Pager
   -----
   ':' 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....
