Re: More fun with nnweb

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

"David Z. Maze" <dmaze@MIT.EDU> writes:

> The bug number is unique, and I should correctly parse it out of the
> initial list-of-bugs page.  This seems suggest that I would want to
> use it instead of (cdr active) as the number parameter to
> make-full-mail-header, yes?

Yup.

> Is there better documentation than C-h f for this function and how
> it's relevant to things?

Nope.  There's not much documentation for nnweb.

> (It looks like the way I do things now is to parse out the URL and bug 
> name from the list-of-bugs page, and then, if the URL isn't already in 
> nnweb-hashtb, I do
> 	    (push
> 	     (list
> 	      (incf (cdr active))
> 	      (make-full-mail-header
> 	       (cdr active) subject from nil nil nil 0 0 url))
> 	     map)
> This looks like it should guarantee that each "article" has a unique
> number, but if the same thing is encountered more than once with
> different URLs, it winds up in the list multiple times.)

Yes -- you could index the table based on the bug number instead of
the URL, I think.  (It's been a while since I worked with nnweb --
ShengHuo probably has more recent experiences with the internals...) 

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