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[Michael Harnois]

OK, what happened? I get a piece of html mail ... pgnus says "Displaying /usr/bin/lynx -force_html /tmp/blahblah" ... but then nothing happens.

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 third, it is considered self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer

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[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net> writes:

> OK, what happened? I get a piece of html mail ... pgnus says "Displaying /usr/bin/lynx -force_html /tmp/blahblah" ... but then nothing happens.

Did the /tmp/blahblah file exist?  And if it did, does that command
display it?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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[Michael Harnois]

    > Did the /tmp/blahblah file exist? And if it did, does that
    > command display it?

Yes. Yes, from an xterm.

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Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA 
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 is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin

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[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net> writes:

>     > Did the /tmp/blahblah file exist? And if it did, does that
>     > command display it?
> 
> Yes. Yes, from an xterm.

Are you able to start other X programs from within Emacs?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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[Michael Harnois]

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

> Are you able to start other X programs from within Emacs?

Lynx isn't an X program. That's probably the problem. One would need
either to spawn an xterm or to open a terminal session in XEmacs, then 
run lynx from there. But that information is not contained in the
mailcap file, which means pgnus will need to figure that out, no?

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Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA 
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"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, 
 is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin

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[Hrvoje Niksic]

Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> > Are you able to start other X programs from within Emacs?
> 
> Lynx isn't an X program. That's probably the problem. One would need
> either to spawn an xterm or to open a terminal session in XEmacs,
> then run lynx from there. But that information is not contained in
> the mailcap file, which means pgnus will need to figure that out,
> no?

No.  The right way to do these things is for the mailcap writer to
specify a `needsterm' property for the entry.  It should look
something like:

    text/html;lynx -force_html %s; needsterm

The stuff with needsterm specified need to be invoked using `xterm
-exec FOO', if XEmacs is running under a window system.

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--------------------------------+--------------------------------
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[Michael Harnois]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> No.  The right way to do these things is for the mailcap writer to
> specify a `needsterm' property for the entry.  It should look
> something like:
> 
>     text/html;lynx -force_html %s; needsterm

And, indeed, my mailcap specifies that very thing. Fancy that.

Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA 
mharnois@sbt.net                      aa0bt@aa0bt.ampr.org 
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, 
 is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin

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[Hrvoje Niksic]

Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net> writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> 
> > No.  The right way to do these things is for the mailcap writer to
> > specify a `needsterm' property for the entry.  It should look
> > something like:
> > 
> >     text/html;lynx -force_html %s; needsterm
> 
> And, indeed, my mailcap specifies that very thing. Fancy that.

Then not respecting the setting is a Gnus bug.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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[Michael Harnois]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Then not respecting the setting is a Gnus bug.

There just isn't enough respect in this world. Why, the President of
the United States doesn't even respect a fine cigar. How low can one
sink?

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Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA 
mharnois@sbt.net                      aa0bt@aa0bt.ampr.org 
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, 
 is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin

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[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net> writes:

> >     text/html;lynx -force_html %s; needsterm
> 
> And, indeed, my mailcap specifies that very thing. Fancy that.

Yup.  Fix in Pterodactyl Gnus v0.32.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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[Harry Putnam]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Subject: Re: bbdb arcana
> References: <87y9m9fs6b.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com>
> 	<m3wv1t8pui.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu>
> 	<87elo1exsd.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com>

[...]
Yikes.. what did I press to do that... nothting intentional here.

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[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Mark Hovey <hovey@picard.math.wesleyan.edu> writes:

> Invalid coding system: iso-8859-1 

[...]

> I use  Emacs 20.2.1.  

There are so many in Emacs 20.2.  Upgrade to Emacs 20.3.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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[Karl Kleinpaste]

See gnus-sum.el line 1519 and add a t at the obvious place.

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[Chris Tessone]

I'm getting exactly the same error with the same ver of emacs, etc. I
just switched back to 0.33 for the time being.

What's the problem?

Chris

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[Justin Sheehy]

Soren Dayton <csdayton@cs.uchicago.edu> writes:

> I recall some discussion about things like an nnimap backend and such.
> has this been written? 

>From the FAQ:

**
Q4.13 Using an IMAP server 

I want to use Gnus to read messages on an IMAP server. 

Current versions of Gnus do not have any IMAP capability. However, it
is planned that nnimap will be working in qgnus. The current version
of the nnimap code is available, but is very alpha.  Do not bother to
download this unless you are an experienced programmer who would like
to work on it.  It can be found at
<URL:ftp://naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu/pub/nnimap>

John Prevost <visigoth@cs.cmu.edu> is the person who is maintaining
this;you should speak with him if you wish to contribute to nnimap.
**

> More generally, is there a list of backends that have been written
> for gnus but are not included?

No.  At least, I don't think so.

-Justin