From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27778 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What now? Date: 06 Dec 1999 05:26:09 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <84bt8kpxba.fsf@snoopy.apana.org.au> <7s4se2uqao.fsf@brutus.mts.jhu.edu> <66yh2sev.fsf@apl.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164742 26297 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:45:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:45:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA00772 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:19:37 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAB11015; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 22:19:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 05 Dec 1999 22:19:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA01460 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 22:19:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [193.69.4.139]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA00761 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:18:50 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA14869 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 05:20:57 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 944454056 32619 193.69.4.148 (6 Dec 1999 04:20:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Dec 1999 04:20:56 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Sheila Chandra's _Moonsung: A Real World Retrospective_: "Ever So Lonely-Eyes-Ocean" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.2 (Sumida) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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)? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen