From: Alexander Baier <alexander.baier@mailbox.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: function to access raw article
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:18:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ujwgtd7.fsf@mailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877fzg2ug9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Fri, 31 Oct 2014 07:19:02 -0700")
On 2014-10-31 15:19 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Alexander Baier <alexander.baier@mailbox.org> writes:
>
>> On 2014-10-31 09:53 Igor Sosa Mayor wrote:
>>> Alexander Baier <alexander.baier@mailbox.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I want to access the raw (unwashed) version of an article from emacs
>>>> lisp to search for a regexp. I do this in order to extract information
>>>> from the body of the article to be used in the summary line. I used
>>>> `gnus-summary-show-raw-article' which did not seem to work. What is the
>>>> preferred way of doing this?
>>>
>>> I think gnus-summary-show-raw-article should work...
>>>
>>> But in any way, I don't think this is necessary to get the summary line
>>> (do you mean 'subject')? What do you want to achieve exactly?
>>
>> I have information in the body of the the article that I want to display
>> in the summary line. To do this, I wrote a function
>> gnus-user-format-function-Y that extracts said information from the
>> body. I then include %uY in my gnus-summary-line-format to include the
>> information in the summary line. My current function looks like this:
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>> (defun gnus-user-format-function-Y (header)
>> "Returns the title of a youtube video."
>> (with-current-buffer gnus-article-buffer
>> (gnus-summary-show-raw-article)
>> (gnus-summary-select-article-buffer)
>> (goto-char (point-min))
>> (search-forward-regexp "\n.*just uploaded a video\n\\(.*\\)\nhttp:.*")
>> (match-string-no-properties 1)))
>> #+END_SRC
>
> Try something like this:
>
> (when (buffer-live-p (get-buffer gnus-original-article-buffer))
> (with-current-buffer gnus-original-article-buffer
> (goto-char (point-min))
> ;;etc
> ))
>
> At any rate, I'm pretty sure you want to be using
> gnus-original-article-buffer.
I tried that and the buffer is never live.
Thanks,
--
Alexander Baier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-31 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-31 8:29 Alexander Baier
2014-10-31 8:53 ` Igor Sosa Mayor
2014-10-31 9:57 ` Alexander Baier
2014-10-31 11:04 ` Steinar Bang
2014-10-31 11:43 ` Alexander Baier
2014-10-31 11:45 ` Igor Sosa Mayor
2014-10-31 11:50 ` Alexander Baier
2014-10-31 14:19 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-31 15:18 ` Alexander Baier [this message]
2014-10-31 15:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-31 12:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-31 13:38 ` Alexander Baier
2014-10-31 14:01 ` Alexander Baier
2014-10-31 14:22 ` Peter Münster
2014-10-31 15:20 ` Alexander Baier
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