Re: Atom backend for Gnus (nnatom)

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Daniel Semyonov <daniel@dsemy.com> writes:

>>>>>> Thomas Fitzsimmons writes:
>
>     >> Otherwise, - How did you add the feed?  - What is shown in the
>     >> buffer opened when you press 'M-e' with point on the group in the
>     >> *Group* buffer?
>
>     > Here's a screencast of what I did:
>
>     > https://www.fitzsim.org/screenshots/nnatom-1.html
>
> Don't use 'gnus-group-subscribe', just press 'u'.  It is bound to a
> different command when browsing a server
> ('gnus-browse-toggle-subscription-at-point').

OK, thanks.

For comparison, the convenience function, gnus-group-make-rss-group,
asks for the blog title, with a reasonable default suggestion, and the
resulting line in *Group* for my blog is:

nnrss:fitzsim's development log

With the procedure you suggested, I end up with:

nnatom+www.fitzsim.org/blog/?feed=atom:fitzsim's development log

FWIW, I prefer the former.  I think the +.. part is necessary for stuff
like email where the field after the ":" is frequently the same (e.g.,
nnimap+mail.host1:INBOX, nnimap+mail.host2:INBOX) whereas blog titles
are usually unique, so the host/url designator becomes redundant.

Have you considered defining a `gnus-group-make-atom-group' convenience
function in nnatom.el (even though that's sort of a namespace
violation), and install a hook that binds that function to a key in the
*Group* buffer ("G A" seems to be available).

Anyway, thanks for this backend.  Once it is published I will do a sweep
of my xsltproc-using groups and reconfigure them for nnatom.

Thomas