GNU bug report logs - #76196
[PATCH] Make nnweb.el do something useful

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Message #36 received at 76196 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: acohen <at> ust.hk, James Thomas <jimjoe <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 76196 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#76196: Obsoleting gnus/nnweb.el
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:27:46 +0300

Ping! Ping!  Andrew, please chime in.

> From: James Thomas <jimjoe <at> gmx.net>
> Cc: 76196 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  acohen <at> ust.hk,  stefankangas <at> gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 17:00:50 +0530
> 
> James Thomas writes:
> 
> > James Thomas writes:
> >
> >> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> >>
> >>> Ping!  Andrew, any further comments?
> >>>
> >>>> From: James Thomas 
> >>>> Cc: Andrew Cohen , Stefan Kangas ,
> >>>>   Eli Zaretskii , Björn Bidar
> >>>>  
> >>>> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:22:02 +0530
> >>>> 
> >>>> James Thomas writes:
> >>>> 
> >>>> > James Thomas writes:
> >>>> >
> >>>> >> Andrew Cohen writes:
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >>> I asked on emacs.gnus.general to see if anyone was using nnweb. Although
> >>>> >>> the number of responses was small, at least one person, James Thomas,
> >>>> >>> continues to use it. He has, for example, updated the defaults to use
> >>>> >>> help-gnu-emacs. This looks potentially useful, and if James (copied
> >>>> >>> here) is willing to work on this I would suggest fixing nnweb rather
> >>>> >>> than obsoleting it.
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> Please hold on; I'll send in an updated patch, with the article washing
> >>>> >> also included.
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> (Thanks for linking to this bug)
> >>>> >
> >>>> > IDK if this is the right place for it, but here it is:
> >>>> >
> >>>> >
> >>>> >
> >>>> > The help-gnu-emacs is only illustrative: may be replaced with the name
> >>>> > of any of the GNU mailing lists. May be tested by:
> >>>> > G w emacs-help RET <unique string> RET
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Further work could involve gnus-summary-refer-thread working with a new
> >>>> > 'gnus-search-web' for the related messages of a search result. Also,
> >>>> > with customization, as a search and gnus-refer-article-method for users
> >>>> > of public-inbox (public-inbox.org).
> >>>> 
> >>>> Here's an updated version:
> >>>> 
> >>>> I hope to add thread-referral later.
> >>
> >> Attached is a one rebased to master; and with an update to another part
> >> of the manual, the usage of which may be tested thus:
> >>
> >> emacs -Q
> >> (setq gnus-refer-article-method '((nnweb "help-gnu-emacs" (nnweb-type
> >> help-gnu-emacs))) gnus-build-sparse-threads t)
> >> M-x gnus-no-server
> >> G m gmane.emacs.help RET nntp RET gmane.io RET
> >> C-u 2 RET (on the group; where 2 is some number that gets just a child
> >> message but _without_ its parent)
> >> (C-x b *Groups* RET) ^ (open server buffer)
> >> D (on gmane.io)
> >> (C-x b *Summary RET)
> >> ^ (on the child - retrieves the parent from nnweb instead)
> >>
> >> 'Solid groups' don't work with _more than one_ search 'type' yet,
> >> seemingly for the same reason as that in bug#74857: some defuns may
> >> need to be changed to deffoos..
> >
> > Oops, the patch:
> 
> Corrected (A WIP had slipped in):

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