Hi, I read RSS/Atom feeds in Gnus everyday using a couple of ways.
The first one, is the standard nnrss backend with the following trick I found somewhere to convert Atom to RSS: ,---- | (require 'mm-url) | (defadvice mm-url-insert (after DE-convert-atom-to-rss () ) | "Converts atom to RSS by calling xsltproc." | (when (re-search-forward "xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/.*/Atom\""; | nil t) | (goto-char (point-min)) | (message "Converting Atom to RSS... ") | (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max) | "xsltproc" | t t nil | (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/atom2rss.xsl") "-") | (goto-char (point-min)) | (message "Converting Atom to RSS... done"))) `---- Since the nnrss fetching blocks Emacs, this is not useable for a large number of feeds. So I reserve this approach to a few feeds which are responsive and that I don't need to check while offline. For most of my feeds, I use feed2imap https://github.com/feed2imap/feed2imap which allows me to download to disk and view offline using an e-mail backend (I use nnmaildir). Feed2imap seems to be unmaintained and is not very robust wrt updated items on the feeds. Looking for alternatives I found this: https://protesilaos.com/dotemacs/#h:7e4448ec-3878-4ea2-9cd6-75e9faaac373 which actually describes rather well my issues. I think I am more of a Gnus fan person than Protesilaos, and I resist to split my inboxes between Elfeed (https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed) for feeds and Gnus for everything else. What I was wondering (but it may be completely dumb) is that if elfeed itself (which is written in Elisp) could be used as a backend for Gnus. Since there seem to be Gnus backends for nearly everything, maybe that interfacing with Elfeed is possible. What do you think? I am not an elisp programmer, but I may try to have a look at it if it doesn't seem a bad idea to people having written backends for Gnus. Thanks for your feedback. -- _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
