Request (news in url-header-follow)

Request (news in url-header-follow)

[Arne Elofsson]

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. 

etc..

thanxs a lot

arne

PS. Another question. How do I automatically change the post method
when I read a foreign group. (At the moment I have to type 
C-u 0 C-c C-c whiich is a pain in the neck)

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Re: Request (news in url-header-follow)

[Lars Balker Rasmussen]

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.
-- 
Lars Balker Rasmussen
<URL:http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~gnort/>  <URL:mailto:lars@rasmussen.org>

Re: Request (news in url-header-follow)

[William Perry]

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.