Re: What now?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

"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. 

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

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

This is easier typed than done, though.  All the article mode commands 
rely on the summary existing, and there are lots of commands that
wouldn't be valid (like, `B c' -- you can't copy to another group if
Gnus isn't "really" running, I'd think).

Hm.  Anobody got any suggestions as to how this could be achieved in a 
fashion that would not require Lots Of Work(tm)?

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen