Re: Buttonize man page links

[Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net>]

On Sun, Sep 08 2002, Simon Josefsson wrote:

>> ftp(1)
>
> Wouldn't it be nice if Gnus buttonized such links?  

Yes, really nice. :-) Could we have an option to allow to specify the
function to use? I'd prefer `woman' (Emacs 21) instead of `man'. Or
should I really use "(fset 'man 'woman)"?

And, what about your idea [1] to make customize-links buttonized?

- M-x customize-variable RET gnus-list-identifiers RET
- M-x customize-group RET gnus-article-treat RET

I'd also like the following to be buttonized:

- C-h v gnus-version RET
- C-h f gnus RET
- <f1> f gnus RET
- M-x apropos foo RET
- M-x apropos-variable foo RET
- M-x apropos-command foo RET
- ...

At least the commands related to help or custom would be useful. And I
don't think that they are more dangerous than links as
<info://gnus/Top>. Sure, to buttonize all `M-x foo RET'-expressions
would be too dangerous.

Another feature request:

Gnus shows news:<mid@fqdn> as links. But many people put MIDs in the
text without "news:" (<mid@fqdn>) or even without "<" and ">"
(mid@fqdn). WIBNI Gnus would buttonize those too? I know, that it's
not really possible to distinguish MID's and mail addresses (without
"mailto:") in this case. But couldn't we have a variable to allow:

(a) always treat as MID
(b) always treat as mail address
(c) ask user
(d) don't buttonize at all

Bye, Reiner.

[1] news:<iluheuqpqpa.fsf@barbar.josefsson.org>
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