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From: Desmond Rivet <desmond_news@videotron.ca>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problems with nrss-url-field
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:22:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prk3x2tz.fsf@zinc.branchcut.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873ah2tt67.fsf@zinc.branchcut.ath.cx>

Desmond Rivet <desmond_news@videotron.ca> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I have the following in my .gnus.el, cribbed from some website I've
> forgotten:
>
> (require 'browse-url)
> (defun browse-nnrss-url( arg )
>   (interactive "p")
>   (let ((url (assq nnrss-url-field
>                   (mail-header-extra
>                    (gnus-data-header
>                     (assq (gnus-summary-article-number)
>                           gnus-newsgroup-data))))))
>    (if url
>        (progn
>          (browse-url (cdr url))
>          (gnus-summary-mark-as-read-forward 1))
>      (gnus-summary-scroll-up arg))))
>
> (eval-after-load "gnus"
>   #'(define-key gnus-summary-mode-map
>      (kbd "C-c <RET>") 'browse-nnrss-url))
> (add-to-list 'nnmail-extra-headers nnrss-url-field)
>
> The idea is that I want C-c <RET> to launch the RSS url in a browser.
>
> This actually worked fine the first couple of times I started up Gnus.
> But now when I start up Gnus, I get this in the minibuffer:
>
> Error in ~/.gnus: nnrss-url-field
>
> Commenting out the elisp code above allows Gnus to start up.
>
> My elisp is...sketchy, but I can generally follow snippets of code
> when I put in the effort.  But I don't even know how to debug this...
>
> Any ideas?  Even pointers on how to get more information on what's
> going wrong would be helpful...

I should probably also mention that I'm running this version of emacs:

GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11)

And Gnus version 5.13.

-- 
Desmond Rivet

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-07 18:22 UTC|newest]

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2008-12-05 17:42 Desmond Rivet
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