From: William Perry <wmperry@aventail.com>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Request (news in url-header-follow)
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 13:01:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32138226.6827@aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0f4tm4j09g.fsf@fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk>
Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote:
>
> Arne Elofsson <arne@rune.biokemi.su.se> writes:
> > I just realized one thing while browsing a foreign group.
> >
> > I'd like gnus-button-url to do different things dependent on what type
> > of information it is. For instance if it is
> > http://www.xemacs.org I want it to start netscape
> > news://dev4.byte.com/chipcon I want it to goto the foreign server
> > using gnus of course.
>
> Uhm, doesn't it? Gnus has used Mozilla for mailto: and news: a
> couple of times in its history, but I have reported these as bugs, and
> they have been fixed. If I click on your dev4 above, I get
> Couldn't fetch article <//dev4.byte.com/chipcon>
> which I don't know what I should think about, but it certainly didn't
> start Mozilla.
Sounds like GNUS isn't being very smart about parsing the news URL.
It can now officially have the hostname, port #, etc, just like any
other URL. There is parsing code in url-parse.el for this in the
Emacs-W3 distribution (which BTW handles this just fine through
gnus-button-url :)
-Bill P.
prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-08-15 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-08-15 12:25 Arne Elofsson
1996-08-15 12:32 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1996-08-15 20:01 ` William Perry [this message]
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