Re: nnslashdot usage

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Ami Fischman <usenet@fischman.org> writes:

> ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> nnrss:Slashdot lists topics as articles, but it doesn't show the
>> followups.  The all-in-one solution is difficult to implement, because
>> of the difficulties in maintaining the map of article numbers.
>
> Thanks for the reply.  Gave nnrss a shot, but it doesn't seem to
> automatically fetch the stories here (i.e., each article shows up as just a
> URL to the story).  Is that intentional?  Is there a way to force the
> retrieval of the story without explicitly clicking on the widget in the
> article?  I'm using the browse-nnrss-url function from the  info file:

nnrss is a backend for files in RSS (or RDF) format.  Slashdot
provides such a file, but no descriptions, therefore, no stories.

> (require 'nnrss)
> (require 'browse-url)
> (defun browse-nnrss-url( arg )
>   (interactive "p")
>   (let ((url (assq nnrss-url-field
> 		   (mail-header-extra
> 		    (gnus-data-header
> 		     (assq (gnus-summary-article-number)
> 			   gnus-newsgroup-data))))))
>     (message "URL: ")
>     (message url)
>     (if url
> 	(browse-url (cdr url))
>       (gnus-summary-scroll-up arg))))
> (eval-after-load "gnus"
>   #'(define-key gnus-summary-mode-map
>       (kbd "<RET>") 'browse-nnrss-url))
> (add-to-list 'nnmail-extra-headers nnrss-url-field)
>
> but all the article buffer shows after I've hit "RET" in the summary buffer
> is a highlighted URL...

It sends the URL to your (external) browser.  (Actually, I don't use
this code.)

> Is the "all-in-one" solution something that you have any plans/hopes of
> implementing?  Or are you happy with nnslashdot as it is now?

Maybe nnslashdot is a little strange at the first sight. However,
after using it for two years, I am happy with it.  So, I am not going
to implement the all-in-one solution. Does anyone want to implement
it?

ShengHuo