Re: What now?

["Jody M. Klymak" <jklymak@apl.washington.edu>]

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

    LMI> "Jody M. Klymak" <jklymak@apl.washington.edu> writes:
    >> I was also thinking that perhaps a hyper diary may be a nice
    >> thing.  The diary would accept hyperlinks (much the way that
    >> gnus does now, or Asvin Goel's Records Mode
    >> http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~ashvin/software.html).  Then you could
    >> write a lisp function to save your article to a text file (or
    >> mbox) and add a hyperlink to your diary.

    LMI> That sounds kinda neat.  If Gnus had a proper "refer article
    LMI> from outside of Gnus" function, Gnus could handle the "news:"
    LMI> URLs.

    LMI> Gnus startup is slow and does lots of stuff, so such a
    LMI> function should just start up a minimal part of Gnus (unless
    LMI> it's already running), and not create the group or summary
    LMI> buffers, but just the article buffer and display the article
    LMI> there.  All normal Gnus commands for doing stuff with
    LMI> articles should be valid there.

Hi Lars,

Well, no other PIM will do this sort of thing without the mail-reader
running.  I don't think its onerous to expect gnus to be running at
the same time. 

Cheers,  Jody

PS, I *think* I've figured out how to merge vcard attachements with
BBDB.  Its not very robust yet, but thats just due to my inability to
understand LISP.  How *do* you guys do it?  Is there a good emacs Lisp
book around somewhere?  "Writing GNU Emacs Extensions" is a little too
terse for me. 

-- 
Jody Klymak                         APL/School of Oceanography,
Doctoral Candidate                  University of Washington
mailto:jklymak@apl.washington.edu   (206)-685-9080
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