Buttonize man page links (was Re: newuser, help)

Buttonize man page links (was Re: newuser, help)

[Simon Josefsson]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gnu.emacs.gnus as well.

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> ftp(1)

Wouldn't it be nice if Gnus buttonized such links?  Oort does now,
please report if the regexp creates false positives.

2002-09-08  Simon Josefsson  <jas@extundo.com>

	* gnus-art.el (gnus-button-alist): Buttonize man page links.

Index: gnus-art.el
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RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/gnus-art.el,v
retrieving revision 6.228
diff -u -p -u -w -r6.228 gnus-art.el
--- gnus-art.el	2002/09/07 19:48:26	6.228
+++ gnus-art.el	2002/09/08 16:31:38
@@ -5249,7 +5249,9 @@ groups."
     ;; This is how URLs _should_ be embedded in text...
     ("<URL: *\\([^<>]*\\)>" 1 t gnus-button-embedded-url 1)
     ;; Raw URLs.
-    (gnus-button-url-regexp 0 t browse-url 0))
+    (gnus-button-url-regexp 0 t browse-url 0)
+    ;; man pages
+    ("\\b\\([a-z]+\\)([0-9])\\W" 0 t man 1))
   "*Alist of regexps matching buttons in article bodies.
 
 Each entry has the form (REGEXP BUTTON FORM CALLBACK PAR...), where