Re: Command for browsing article URLs?

[Haider Rizvi <harizvi@gmail.com>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Haider Rizvi <harizvi@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>> I'd like to have a command, call it `gnus-article-browse-url', which
>>> collects all the links/URLs in the article body, and then offers to
>>> browse one of them (choosing with completion). Bound to "K l",
>>> naturally.
>>
>> I use two functions along these lines but not exactly what you asked
>> for.
>>
>> 1. ace-link-gnus: I've it bound to M-o for some historical reason. In
>> typical ace-fashion, it highlights all urls in the article and you use
>> a key to browse the url in your browser.
>
> That's handy, thank you! I'm glad someone else has done the boring work
> for me :)
>
>> 2. my-gnus-browse function: Based on the newsgroup name, it calls
>> various functions to find parent url for this article from the article
>> headers. For example, gwene/gmane add a Archived-at header to point to
>> the original article. I had various mailing lists that I found it useful for. 
>>
>> Let me know if you want to see the latter. 
>
> Yes please; I think this is also useful, and on more than one occasion
> I've wanted to easily follow permalinks from Archived-At headers. Maybe
> there's a way to let users distinguish between links in the article
> headers and links in the article body.

Eric,

Sorry, got busy elsewhere. I've posted snippet of my code at:
https://gist.github.com/harizvi/97ee5564047206d6014301c3911d8fbb

Pl take a look.
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