Re: What now?

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au> writes:

> >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
>     Lars> "Jody M. Klymak" <jklymak@apl.washington.edu> writes:
>     >> I was also thinking that perhaps a hyper diary may be a nice
>     >> thing.  The diary would accept hyperlinks (much the way that
>     >> gnus does now, or Asvin Goel's Records Mode
>     >> http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~ashvin/software.html).  Then you could
>     >> write a lisp function to save your article to a text file (or
>     >> mbox) and add a hyperlink to your diary.
> 
>     Lars> That sounds kinda neat.  If Gnus had a proper "refer article
>     Lars> from outside of Gnus" function, Gnus could handle the
>     Lars> "news:" URLs.

Well, Emacs/W3 already uses gnus for that, so that should be pretty simple
to do. :)

> I think this would be really good. 
> 
> Another feature (one that doesn't look like its already implemented at
> least) could be a "write new message with these headers" function, that
> could be called, eg by w3. Currently, while w3 uses Gnus message mode,
> major Gnus features, eg MIME and gnus-posting styles don't appear to be
> supported. However, this would require co-operation from w3.

Easily accomplished. :) The problem with using gnus posting styles for
Emacs/W3 mailto: URLs is that not everybody clicks those links from within
Gnus.  Emacs/W3 uses _message_, not Gnus for sending the mail.  There might
be a case for having w3 allow customization of posting styles based on
email address or the URL the link is on, something like that.

-bp