nnweb observations

nnweb observations

[Wesley.Hardaker]

Well, I really like playing with nnweb...  I've been doing so for an
hour or so.  Lots of fun.  Sure wish it worked as advertised though...

- altavista searches didn't work at all ("couldn't load group" or
  something like that)

- dejanews searches worked but had lots of problems when actually
  reading the articles.  Mostly, it displayed the article full of html
  code, which should be run through w3 or retrieve the text version
  instead.  Imediately after loading the article it bombs out with:

     Signalling: (error "Keyboard macro terminated by a command ringing the bell")
       ding()
       gnus-error(1 "No such article (may have expired or been canceled)")
       gnus-article-prepare(1 nil)
       gnus-summary-display-article(1 nil)
       gnus-summary-select-article(nil nil pseudo)
       gnus-summary-scroll-up(1)
       call-interactively(gnus-summary-scroll-up)

- Lots of errors creating groups:
    format specifier %d doesn't match argument type
  This then produces
    Undefined definition map
  when you try 'M-g' on most of the other groups.

- Sometimes you get an error like:
    Connection failed, retry?
  which happens at the same time as another buffer is displayed with
  the warning:
    A connection is alread in progress with search.dejanews.com

- When you actually try to read an article, it highlights the line as
  'canceled' (ie, black background yellow foreground) but displays the
  article (along with the above stack trace).  At this point
  gnus-summary-scroll-article-up or down fails and trys to read the
  article above or below the current one even though the html'icied
  article is much longer than a page and needs scrolling.

- Re-reading an article that you've already read once in the summary
  buffer (without exit/re-entering) displays an empty buffer (and some
  error I'm forgetting).

Wheee
Cool though!
Wes

Re: nnweb observations

[Wesley.Hardaker]

Wesley.Hardaker@sphys.unil.ch writes:

>   This then produces
>     Undefined definition map

Stack trace for this:
       Signalling: (error "Undefined definition map")
	 signal(error ("Undefined definition map"))
	 cerror("Undefined definition %s" map)
	 apply(cerror ("Undefined definition %s" map))
	 error("Undefined definition %s" map)
	 nnweb-definition(map)
	 nnweb-request-scan("web.ucd-snmp" "")
	 gnus-request-scan("nnweb:web.ucd-snmp" (nnweb ""))
	 gnus-activate-group("nnweb:web.ucd-snmp" scan)
	 gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group(nil)
	 gnus-topic-get-new-news-this-topic(nil)
	 call-interactively(gnus-topic-get-new-news-this-topic)


You know I was thinking at the end of the day yesterday that why
restrict nnweb to newsgroups?  Why not allow web seaches through
alta-vista as well?  Then the summary buffer would list web pages and
hitting <ret> would load it into the article buffer and run 'w3-mode'
on it...

Wes