How to follow news:// link outside of message context?

How to follow news:// link outside of message context?

[Tom Koelman]

Hi,

I want to keep some news:// links in a text file for easy retrieval
later on, but I don't know how to "follow" them outside of message
context. If I get a message containing such a link it is buttonized, I
just can press "enter" to do just that, how to achieve this outside of
a message?

Tom

Re: How to follow news:// link outside of message context?

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Jun 25 2003, Tom Koelman wrote:

> I want to keep some news:// links in a text file for easy retrieval
> later on, but I don't know how to "follow" them outside of message
> context. If I get a message containing such a link it is buttonized, I
> just can press "enter" to do just that, how to achieve this outside of
> a message?

You may use `gnus-button-handle-news' in this way:

(gnus-button-handle-news "news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53256")

You need to strip the "news://" part.  It would be nice to have a Gnus
function, accepting valid URLs, that could be used together with
`ffap' for such URLs.

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: How to follow news:// link outside of message context?

[Daniel Néri]

Tom Koelman <tkoelman@xs4all.nl> writes:

> I want to keep some news:// links in a text file for easy retrieval
> later on, but I don't know how to "follow" them outside of message
> context. If I get a message containing such a link it is buttonized,
> I just can press "enter" to do just that, how to achieve this
> outside of a message?

You can use M-x goto-address to get "clickable" URLs in any buffer.


Regards,
  --Daniel

Re: How to follow news:// link outside of message context?

[Harry Putnam]

daniel.neri@sigicom.se (Daniel Néri) writes:

> You can use M-x goto-address to get "clickable" URLs in any buffer.

Doesn't work with smb:// urls.  But thats probably work for TRAMP devel.

Re: How to follow news:// link outside of message context?

[Kai Großjohann]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> daniel.neri@sigicom.se (Daniel Néri) writes:
>
>> You can use M-x goto-address to get "clickable" URLs in any buffer.
>
> Doesn't work with smb:// urls.  But thats probably work for TRAMP devel.

Yeah, I will have to work on making Tramp use a URL-like filename
format.
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