Thanks for the comments David Engster <[email protected]> writes:
> Nigel Beck <[email protected]> writes: >> I've been experimenting with the generic shimbun reader for rss and have >> it mostly working, but a few things puzzle me: >> >> 1) Changing shimbun-rss-blogs-group-url-regexp requires a complete emacs >> shutdown and restart to be recognized. Even a gnus restart within emacs >> doesn't work. This seems like a bit of an onerous requirement to add a >> new blog > > I agree. This is due to shimbun-rss-blogs-groups being defvar'ed. Adding > > (luna-define-method shimbun-groups ((shimbun shimbun-rss-blogs)) > (mapcar 'car shimbun-rss-blogs-group-url-regexp)) > > to sb-rss-blogs.el (after the 'defvar' of shimbun-rss-blogs-groups) > should fix this. Please let me know if this works for you. > Yes that seems to fix it. >> 2) Similar to #1 - if a name has ever been used - eg "Nigels Blog" - it >> seems to "stick" even after total reset and can never be used again. >> This means that if I give the wrong url (typo, stupidity, whatever) for >> a blog, I need to rename it the next time. > > I'm guessing you only tried to 'kill' the group? The verb is misleading > here; in Gnus, 'killing' only means 'unsubscribing'. You can actually > *delete* a group from the shimbun server by using 'C-u G DEL' on the > group. Alternatively, you can delete the remaining overview/marks files > manually in ~/News/shimbun/rss-blogs/FEEDNAME and restart Gnus. > Yes indeed. Thanks for the pointer. >> 3) How *does* one deal with atom feeds? I've seen the stuff here >> http://www.randomsample.de/dru5/node/8 for converting an atom feed to >> rss, but I'm not clear on how/whether that plays nicely with the >> nnshimbun rss-blogs facility. > > The shimbun library uses w3m instead of mm-url for retrieving the feeds, > so this approach will not work. > > If you have atom feeds with fully published content, you can use the > atom-hash shimbun. For atom feeds without full content, I think > implementing a atom-blogs shimbun based on the rss-blogs code should be > straightforward. I'll eventually do that, but I'm currently pretty busy. > I'll play with atom-hash and also see if I can figure out how the rss-blogs code could become atom-blogs code. Probably its "obvious" but I've been looking around for atom-hash usage examples and didn't come across any. If anyone has one before I hack through it, it would be appreciated! > -David -- Nigel Beck http://www.nigelbeck.com _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
