[Gllug] text based rss reader

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On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Holger Duerer said:
>>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Fitzgerald <ben_m_f at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>     Ben> good news. now a lazy question: before I install this, can I
>     Ben> flag rss items for later reading (not just marking as
>     Ben> unread).
> 
> I use 'u' (gnus-summary-tick-article-forward) to mark articles, i.e
> there is only one type of flag.

Personally I use ! to do the same thing. It runs the same function, but
it's easier to remember, as the tick mark is a ! sign :)

Gnus supports vast numbers of different types of mark, but tick (!) and
dormancy (?, `show this article if any of its children are shown') are
probably the most widely set by humans.

> I assume the rss backend will also eventually expire articles, so you
> may also want to copy them into the cache (bound to '*' key --
> gnus-cache-enter-article).

Articles are expired in exactly the same way as they are in all other
groups: i.e., you'll need to turn on auto-expiry, either globally
(perhaps not a good idea if your main mailbox is kept in Gnus as well)
or for that group with an (auto-expire . t) in the group's parameters
(`G p' in the groups list to edit them).

> However from your question ("Can I ...?" instead of "How can I ...?")
> I deduce that you are not aware that Gnus is part of Emacs.  You may
> want to consider whether learning Emacs and Gnus is worth your effort
> just to read RSS feeds.  (Not that I would want to discourage anybody
> from finding the way to enlightenment.)

Quite so. (It's part of XEmacs too, of course.)

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 unfortunately.' --- Velvet Wood
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