* Gnus command to read old Gmane threads
@ 2008-01-06 10:31 Reiner Steib
2008-01-13 18:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Reiner Steib @ 2008-01-06 10:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding, gmane-discuss
Hi,
often I use <http://search.gmane.org/> to find some old messages.
While the web interface is much better than Google Groups', it is
still not as convenient as Gnus, of course. ;-)
As URLs like
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65087/focus=65114>
expose the relevant article numbers (at least approximately) and
<http://gmane.org/export.php> explains mbox export, I added the
following command to Gnus:
,----[ <f1> f gnus-group-read-ephemeral-gmane-group RET ]
| gnus-group-read-ephemeral-gmane-group is an interactive Lisp
| function in `gnus-group.el'.
| (gnus-group-read-ephemeral-gmane-group group start end)
|
| Read articles from Gmane group group as an ephemeral group.
| start and end specify the articles range. The articles are
| downloaded via HTTP using the URL specified by
| `gnus-group-gmane-group-download-format'.
`----
I.e. with `M-x gnus-group-read-ephemeral-gmane-group RET
gmane.emacs.gnus.general RET 65087 RET 65114 RET' you can read the
thread in Gnus.
Ideas for improvement:
- When called interactively, maybe instead of reading END, the user
could enter the range.
- It should be possible to enter URLs like
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65087/focus=65114>
and Gnus should parse GROUP, START and END from this.
- If Gmane could supply "minimal and maximum article number of this
thread [or MID]" somehow, we could use these values.
Comments?
Bye, Reiner.
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