Re: Command for browsing article URLs?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

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.

Thanks,
Eric