Re: Atom backend for Gnus (nnatom)

[Daniel Semyonov]

>>>>> Thomas Fitzsimmons writes:

    > I'm interested.  I've been using an xsltproc workaround from Emacs
    > Wiki for Atom feeds, but I always thought a proper "nnatom"
    > backend should be made.  Nice to see you've done it!

    >> I'd appreciate help with the remaining major issues; the
    >> repository for the backend can be found at:
    >> https://git.sr.ht/~dsemy/nnatom I have already assigned copyright
    >> to the FSF for Emacs a few months ago.
    >> 
    >> Some more details about the major issues: - Group methods of new
    >> groups are usually corrupted, being replaced completely by the
    >> string "nnatom:<url or file of some nnatom group>".  This can be
    >> worked around in the following way: 1. Open the server containing
    >> the group and subscribe to it without opening the group itself.
    >> 2. Press 'M-e' (gnus-group-edit-group-method) while point is on
    >> the new group in the *Group* buffer.  3. Either write a new Gnus
    >> method or replace the URL with the correct one and confirm the
    >> change.  This only needs to be done once for every group (if it
    >> is needed at all).  I've tried debugging this issue many times; I
    >> assume at this point that I'm missing something pretty obvious,
    >> but I can't figure it out unfortunately.

    > I just tried nnatom with my blog's Atom feed and I didn't notice
    > any issue.  Selecting the feed in the *Group* buffer works fine
    > and articles load properly.  The *Server* buffer shows the link
    > "opened".

Thanks for your interest and for testing.

    > Can you share the link to a failing feed, along with steps to
    > reproduce the issue?

This only happened when multiple nnatom groups were used, but in any
case I managed to fix it finally (I hope).  Note however that now server
addresses cannot be prefixed by "http{,s}://" and you may need to kill
preexisting nnatom groups.

I'd appreciate it if you could also test these latest changes (and with
multiple feeds).