Re: Command for browsing article URLs?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Haider Rizvi <harizvi@gmail.com> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Haider Rizvi <harizvi@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> I'd like to have a command, call it `gnus-article-browse-url', which
>>>> collects all the links/URLs in the article body, and then offers to
>>>> browse one of them (choosing with completion). Bound to "K l",
>>>> naturally.
>>>
>>> I use two functions along these lines but not exactly what you asked
>>> for.
>>>
>>> 1. ace-link-gnus: I've it bound to M-o for some historical reason. In
>>> typical ace-fashion, it highlights all urls in the article and you use
>>> a key to browse the url in your browser.
>>
>> That's handy, thank you! I'm glad someone else has done the boring work
>> for me :)
>>
>>> 2. my-gnus-browse function: Based on the newsgroup name, it calls
>>> various functions to find parent url for this article from the article
>>> headers. For example, gwene/gmane add a Archived-at header to point to
>>> the original article. I had various mailing lists that I found it useful for. 
>>>
>>> Let me know if you want to see the latter. 
>>
>> Yes please; I think this is also useful, and on more than one occasion
>> I've wanted to easily follow permalinks from Archived-At headers. Maybe
>> there's a way to let users distinguish between links in the article
>> headers and links in the article body.
>
> Eric,
>
> Sorry, got busy elsewhere. I've posted snippet of my code at:
> https://gist.github.com/harizvi/97ee5564047206d6014301c3911d8fbb

Thanks for this! It looks like you've made some pretty use-case-specific
functions, though, and I'd ideally like this to be a single function,
that's able to handle a variety of links with a single interface (I
originally thought `browse-url', but now apparently
`widget-button-press' is the way to go, except I can't make it work
right). But thank you for this code! It will come in handy, and at the
very least it's good to know that this is a common need.

Eric