Re: nnweb + Gmane search

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Fri, Feb 24 2006, Andreas Seltenreich wrote:

> Reiner Steib writes:
>> Andreas, would you like to provide an update for the manual
>> (texi/gnus.texi)?  I'd like to have this example...
>
> Oh, there's even a gnus-coding.texi in there. I guess I should have
> read that before starting to work on nnweb :-)

Maybe gnus-coding.texi needs more improvement than nnweb.  I would
have complained if something obvious is wrong with your patches WRT
coding style.

> Hmm, that paragraph about solid groups not being useful seems out of
> date, too. Was it written at a time when solid groups weren't backed
> up by hash tables, or am I missing something?

I don't know.  `vc-annotate' says that the stuff in gnus.texi was last
change on 11-Nov-99 whereas some places in nnweb.el with the string
"hash" are unchanged since to 04-Mar-97.

>> It's not a problem if you're not familiar with
>> texinfo: You write it; we can fix the markup before committing it.
>> (While at it, "dejanews" could be removed in the manual.)
>
> I'm more concerned about my English skills than texinfo.

Don't worry.  We can also polish this.  Though I'm not sure if my
English is better than yours.  :-)

>> -  (mm-decode-coding-region (point-min) (point-max) 'utf-8)
>> +  (mm-decode-coding-region (point-min) (point-max))
>>
>> ... or anything else?
>
> It still doesn't work for me without explicit decoding using
> mm-url-use-external + wget. However, it seems to decode fine
> implicitly when using internal fetching. I dunno if there is a more
> elegant way to solve this than testing for mm-url-use-external. 

I don't think the Gmane's output encoding will change, so maybe we can
leave it as it is.

> And wouldn't using external programs nevertheless break or unbreak
> depending on the system locale?

Katsumi Yamaoka might know about this.  I'd guess that emacs-w3m also
has to deal with this.

>> Is it also possible to submit the "Sort by" flag (Relevance, Date,
>> Reverse Date) to nov.php?
>
> At the moment one could achieve that by customising
> nnweb-type-definition: [...]

I had in mind to modify the interactive form of
`gnus-group-make-web-group' to query (with completing) for additional
criteria after the "Search engine" prompt.  (We could bind this
variant to `G W'.)

> +2006-02-24  Andreas Seltenreich  <uwi7@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
> +
> +	* nnweb.el (nnweb-gmane-create-mapping): Don't choke on ^M.

Thanks.  Installed.

(Most of the time it's better to include the ChangeLog entry as plain
text in the article because a patch usually fails.)

Bye, Reiner.
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