From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7055 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Gnus to handle news: and mailto: URLs from external sources? Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:02:06 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85k69uzkgh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144870879 14619 80.91.229.2 (12 Apr 2006 19:41:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:41:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 12 21:41:18 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FTlCm-00053B-Vu for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:40:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FTlCm-0008IE-Et for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:40:44 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder1.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!news.netcologne.de!nhp.netcologne.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WpDNCoetk2ycJdo7VKehodUG/Ls= Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Apr 2006 21:02:08 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 9b0a39e7.newsread2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=f0VoU^A1DE:?0I78\m5cj:Q5U85hF6f; 4jW\KbG]kaM8AV6U:Z=fE=?=6lBYTUK; n21_LiI6ENVa=3>5MOK`O=R; GD5P List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7055 Archived-At: Kurt Swanson writes: > I've been a heavy Gnus user for years[*] (some of the ancient ones may > remember me), as well as a big fan of gnuserv, which allows one to > call emacs from command lines, scripts, etc. I.e. I have *one* emacs > (process) and gnus started immediately upon logging in, and they run > perpetually until reboot. > > I recently discovered I could mangle firefox into running an external > program for any URIs I wanted (news:, mailto:, magnet:, screw-you:, > etc.) Of interest here are the first two. Thus I can script > something to send to gnus via gnuserv. Obviously I would like to > handle all the extensions (for example "?subject=xxx" for mailto:) Has > anyone attempted this before? Any pointers? > > [*] I swear to "god" I have not, and will not use outlook, > thunderbird, webmail or any other crap out there. Well, just configure something like /usr/bin/emacsclient -ne (browse-url"%r") as your mailer command (be sure to use spaces only where I wrote them). And /usr/bin/emacsclient %t as your textarea command You can probably do this by typing the URL about:config into Firefox. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum