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[PATCH] Gnus: Add back end for Atom feeds (nnatom)

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From: Daniel Semyonov <daniel <at> dsemy.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: 64202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 66188 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jimjoe <at> gmx.net
Subject: bug#64202: bug#66188: 29.1; Include Atom feed reader
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 01:07:41 +0300

>>>>> Eric Abrahamsen writes:

    > On 04/23/24 01:44 AM, Daniel Semyonov wrote:
    >>>>>>> Eric Abrahamsen writes:
    >> 
    >> > On 04/21/24 21:41 PM, Daniel Semyonov wrote:
    >> >>>>>>> Eric Abrahamsen writes:
    >> >> 
    >> >> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
    >> >> >> Ping! Ping!  Eric, any comments?
    >> >> 
    >> >> > Yes, let's do it! My only comment right now is that the manual should
    >> >> > explicitly list the steps for creating an atom group: "B nnatom RET" and
    >> >> > insert URL without protocol. I still have dreams of fixing the group
    >> >> > creation code to prompt for the address, but that can wait.
    >> >> 
    >> >> > Daniel, would you make that addition?
    >> >> 
    >> >> Does the following text (in the 'Atom' subsection of the Gnus manual)
    >> >> not suffice?
    >> >> 
    >> >> The ‘nnatom’ back end allows you to add HTTP or local Atom feeds as
    >> >> Gnus servers (with a single group), as you would with any other method,
    >> >> by supplying the location of the feed as the server address.  Note,
    >> >> however, that the server address shouldn't be prefixed with <http://> or
    >> >> <https://>.
    >> 
    >> > I think we need to at least make it clear that you can't create these
    >> > groups with "G m", which to me anyway is the "normal" way of making a
    >> > group. It wouldn't hurt to be more explicit about the fact that feeds
    >> > are created at the server level, not the group level. I'm not suggesting
    >> > anything radical, something like:
    >> 
    >> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 
    >> > The ‘nnatom’ back end allows you to add HTTP or local Atom feeds as Gnus
    >> > servers, in your Gnus init files or as foreign servers via "B" in the
    >> > *Group* buffer. The feed location is supplied as the server address, and
    >> > each server only contains a single group. Note, however, that the server
    >> > address shouldn't be prefixed with <http://> or <https://>.
    >> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
    >> 
    >> > Or something like that. WDYT?
    >> 
    >> I gave it another thought and you're right, it should be more explicit.
    >> I've attached an updated patch but here's the new version of the
    >> paragraph (since I actually ended up being even more explicit):
    >> 
    >> The ‘nnatom’ back end allows you to add HTTP or local Atom feeds as
    >> Gnus servers, by adding them to ‘gnus-secondary-select-methods’ or as
    >> foreign servers by pressing "B" in the ‘*Group*’ buffer, for example
    >> (*note Finding the News).  The address of each server is its feed's
    >> location (though the address shouldn't be prefixed with <http://> or
    >> <https://>) and each server contains a single group which holds the
    >> feed's entries.

    > That looks great -- I think it can't hurt to provide some more
    > hand-holding in the manual. I'll get this in this morning.

Great, I just did a git pull and I see it; thank you very much!

Daniel

(BTW I guess this report should be closed; I'm not really sure what the
procedure is since this technically isn't my report, but instead was
merged with mine at some point)

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