gnus-article-browse-html-article works?

gnus-article-browse-html-article works?

[jidanni]

K H runs the command gnus-article-browse-html-article

It gets as far as writing the file in /tmp, but then what happens next
is a mystery, at least with my http://jidanni.org/comp/configuration

W M b doesn't seem to work either. With no prefix it is supposed to show
all parts but doesn't. W M v does.

I was looking for a summary buffer command to see the text/html part,
inline, in the case when I am looking at
"1.  (*) text/plain          ( ) text/html           "
and don't want to change buffers to get at the button. P.S., note the
wasted trailing blanks after the last button.

gnus-version "Gnus v5.13"

Re: gnus-article-browse-html-article works?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

jidanni@jidanni.org writes:

> K H runs the command gnus-article-browse-html-article
>
> It gets as far as writing the file in /tmp, but then what happens next
> is a mystery, at least with my http://jidanni.org/comp/configuration

It doesn't work for me, either.  Is that a remotely useful command,
however?  I vote for just removing it.

> W M b doesn't seem to work either. With no prefix it is supposed to show
> all parts but doesn't. W M v does.
>
> I was looking for a summary buffer command to see the text/html part,
> inline, in the case when I am looking at
> "1.  (*) text/plain          ( ) text/html           "

If you want to click buttons, you have to switch the buffer.

`C-d' will dissect the article if you want to really look at the
structure of it.

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Re: gnus-article-browse-html-article works?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

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

> It doesn't work for me, either.

The reason was that my Firefox isn't running on the same machine as my
Emacs, so when writing to /tmp, Firefox can't pick it up.

> Is that a remotely useful command, however?  I vote for just removing
> it.

Thinking about it a few milliseconds more, it does seem useful, so I
vote for ignoring what I just said.  :-)

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Re: gnus-article-browse-html-article works?

[Steinar Bang]

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

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> It doesn't work for me, either.

> The reason was that my Firefox isn't running on the same machine as my
> Emacs, so when writing to /tmp, Firefox can't pick it up.

Ubuntu's apparently in the process of removing this silly network
transparency provided by X11.  It's a silly legacy from the 80-ies that
noone needs or want.

Or so they say.

Re: gnus-article-browse-html-article works?

[Miles Bader]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>> The reason was that my Firefox isn't running on the same machine as my
>> Emacs, so when writing to /tmp, Firefox can't pick it up.
>
> Ubuntu's apparently in the process of removing this silly network
> transparency provided by X11.  It's a silly legacy from the 80-ies that
> noone needs or want.
>
> Or so they say.

I do wonder at ubuntu's decision-making process -- sometimes they seem
driven purely by hype...

-miles

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Wildly off topic X11 discussion (was Re: gnus-article-browse-html-article works?)

[Daniel Pittman]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>>> The reason was that my Firefox isn't running on the same machine as my
>>> Emacs, so when writing to /tmp, Firefox can't pick it up.
>>
>> Ubuntu's apparently in the process of removing this silly network
>> transparency provided by X11.  It's a silly legacy from the 80-ies that
>> noone needs or want.
>>
>> Or so they say.
>
> I do wonder at ubuntu's decision-making process -- sometimes they seem
> driven purely by hype...

Hey, it worked for Apple and Microsoft for years.[1]  No reason they shouldn't
try it themselves - and, frankly, given the general experience level folks
seem to have with remote X stuff these days?  I don't know many people will
really notice.

(Have you noticed that GNOME do their screen sharing with a VNC server?)

        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  ...although Microsoft actually implemented a remote display protocol that
     is better in places than X11, eventually.

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Re: gnus-article-browse-html-article works?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> I do wonder at ubuntu's decision-making process -- sometimes they seem
> driven purely by hype...

Yeah.  I think the Wayland thing is going to be a lot of pain (in the
long run) for people like me who's always logged into a dozen machines
running stuff over X over ssh.

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Re: gnus-article-browse-html-article works?

[Steinar Bang]

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

> Yeah.  I think the Wayland thing is going to be a lot of pain (in the
> long run) for people like me who's always logged into a dozen machines
> running stuff over X over ssh.

AOL!

(Written from a Ubuntu 10.10 netbook)

Re: gnus-article-browse-html-article works?

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:

> (Written from a Ubuntu 10.10 netbook)

(With Unity yanked in favour of netbook-launcher-efl+gnome... not
_quite_ as polished as the netbook-launcher of Ubuntu 10.04, but
serviceable)

Re: gnus-article-browse-html-article works?

[Russ Allbery]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

>> I do wonder at ubuntu's decision-making process -- sometimes they seem
>> driven purely by hype...

> Yeah.  I think the Wayland thing is going to be a lot of pain (in the
> long run) for people like me who's always logged into a dozen machines
> running stuff over X over ssh.

Debian will still be here, and Debian embraces the power of "and".  :)

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Re: gnus-article-browse-html-article works?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

> Debian will still be here, and Debian embraces the power of "and".  :)

Yup.  But people will be writing nice applications just targeting
Wayland, so after a while, everybody will have to deal with that
mess...

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