Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-04-16 Thread Eric S Fraga
François Pinard writes: > rai...@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes: > >> Ack? > > That comes from ASCII (the first edition of the standard), which had two And it was also what the cat in Bloom County used to say ;-) -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D : in Emacs 24.3.50.1 and Org relea

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-04-16 Thread François Pinard
rai...@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes: > Ack? That comes from ASCII (the first edition of the standard), which had two control characters (OK, it had more than two control characters, but I'm only looking at those two!): ACK and NAK, for Acknowledge and Negative Acknowledge. At this time, seri

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-04-16 Thread Tom
Karl Voit schrieb: [...] >> I can imagine - a regular emacs on an android touch tablet without an >> additional keyboard... > >I also tested a FreedomPro bluetooth keyboard with my XOOM tablet. >Unfortunately, no Ctrl/ESC/Alt is working. So Android/Emacs is not >usable without the Hacker's key

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-04-16 Thread Karl Voit
* Rainer M. Krug wrote: > Karl Voit writes: > >> * Rainer M. Krug wrote: >> >>> But I want to see only the news which I did not read on the other >>> device. So something like an imap implementation for gwene would >>> be needed to make it a *very* interesting solution for me. >> >> Ack. > > Ac

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-04-16 Thread Rainer M. Krug
Karl Voit writes: > * Rainer M. Krug wrote: >> >> There is, imho, one big difference between using google reader and gwene >> with any desktop news reader: as far as I know, you can not sync read >> items between ydifferent readers (desktops, mobile devices, tablets, >> ...). This is for me a pr

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-04-16 Thread Karl Voit
* Rainer M. Krug wrote: > > There is, imho, one big difference between using google reader and gwene > with any desktop news reader: as far as I know, you can not sync read > items between ydifferent readers (desktops, mobile devices, tablets, > ...). This is for me a problem, as I mainly read fro

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-04-15 Thread Rainer M. Krug
Steinar Bang writes: >> Karl Voit : > >> On the one hand, I do not have any Gnus experience > > It doesn't have to be Gnus. Any NNTP client will work with feeds on > gwene. On the PC you could eg. use Thunderbird. > >> and from the things I already read about Gnus configuration, I want to >

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-04-14 Thread Steinar Bang
> Karl Voit : > On the one hand, I do not have any Gnus experience It doesn't have to be Gnus. Any NNTP client will work with feeds on gwene. On the PC you could eg. use Thunderbird. > and from the things I already read about Gnus configuration, I want to > keep it that way. There is a bi

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-03-28 Thread François Pinard
Jude DaShiell writes: > Now, how to get from what's in info newsticker to actually adding a > real feed and have newsticker work is another matter entirely. I gave it a quick try, and found frustrating that it looks attractive in its display and specs, that it seems to be nicely done at first gl

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-03-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
I did also try rss2email r2e and that needs its config.py file put in the ~/.rss2email/ directory and users will need to edit that config.py file to set things correct for local installations. It does work once this gets done. On Wed, 27 Mar 2013, Carmine Casciato wrote: > > Jude DaShiell w

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-03-27 Thread Carmine Casciato
Jude DaShiell writes: > newsticker has been part of emacs since 22.x and it's supposed to be > able to read rss feeds and display them. Now, how to get from what's in > info newsticker to actually adding a real feed and have newsticker work > is another matter entirely. I'm reading what's i

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-03-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
newsticker has been part of emacs since 22.x and it's supposed to be able to read rss feeds and display them. Now, how to get from what's in info newsticker to actually adding a real feed and have newsticker work is another matter entirely. I'm reading what's in info newsticker and don't yet

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-03-27 Thread Karl Voit
* Samuel Loury wrote: > > Let me propose another way to fulfill the same need: Sure! > To my mind, there is not much difference between fetching unread rss and > fetching unread mails. Then why bother trying to duplicate the effort in > mail readers and rss readers? Good point. > I use feed2im

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-03-27 Thread Rasmus
Samuel Loury writes: > I use feed2imap for 2 years now and it works really well. It is a ruby > script that sync your rss (atom) feeds and put new resources on an imap > server with a specified label. Nonetheless, AFAIK, It does not provide a > way to get to the full content of the resources like

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-03-27 Thread Samuel Loury
Karl Voit writes: > OK, so as I assumed, there is no method out there to read RSS feeds > with Emacs and sync to mobile Android devices (content and > read/unread information). Let me propose another way to fulfill the same need: To my mind, there is not much difference between fetching unread

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-03-27 Thread Karl Voit
* W. Greenhouse wrote: > +1 here from another Org and Gnus user who couldn't really get org-feed.el to > work as an RSS reader, but loves Gnus+Gwene. > > Fabrice Popineau writes: > >> Lately I have seen many people reporting to be afraid of Gnus >> configuration. >> There is nothing to be afraid

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-03-26 Thread Fabrice Popineau
I banned Cygwin quite a while ago because of too many instabilities (versions of the dll), and the awful stuff of being obliged to "mount" drives and so on. Windows is not Unix. If I want Unix, I install some Ubuntu in a VM or on a spare machine. Under Windows, I use gnuwin32 whenever I can and mi

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-03-26 Thread Sebastien Vauban
Hi Nick, Nick Dokos wrote: >> - I wish Emacs to be able to actually render HTML in a buffer (w3m not  >> a valid option under Windows at least) > > Under Linux, w3m is usable (just barely) but like all text browsers, it > works better with text-heavy pages without too many bells and whistles: > ce

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-03-26 Thread Ivan Kanis
Le 26 Mars à 13h49, Karl Voit a écrit : > TL;DR: org-feed.el is not a doable replacement for Google Reader. >What about alternatives? I use newsticker, it's part of emacs. -- Aide-toi, l'État ne t'aidera pas. -- Auguste Detœuf

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-03-26 Thread Nick Dokos
Fabrice Popineau wrote: > Lately I have seen many people reporting to be afraid of Gnus configuration. > There is nothing to be afraid of there. It is a bit like Org : you  > can keep it simple and short or very long and complex. > Gnus is definitely the best mail/news/(rss) reader I have used. >

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-03-26 Thread W. Greenhouse
+1 here from another Org and Gnus user who couldn't really get org-feed.el to work as an RSS reader, but loves Gnus+Gwene. Fabrice Popineau writes: > Lately I have seen many people reporting to be afraid of Gnus > configuration. > There is nothing to be afraid of there. It is a bit like Org : yo

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-03-26 Thread Fabrice Popineau
Lately I have seen many people reporting to be afraid of Gnus configuration. There is nothing to be afraid of there. It is a bit like Org : you can keep it simple and short or very long and complex. Gnus is definitely the best mail/news/(rss) reader I have used. But there are 2 big drawbacks for me

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-03-26 Thread Karl Voit
* Carmine Casciato wrote: > Karl Voit writes: > >> TL;DR: org-feed.el is not a doable replacement for Google Reader. >>What about alternatives? > > Hi Karl, Hi Carmine! > You can perhaps try with Gnus and Gwene? Thanks for the pointer. On the one hand, I do not have any Gnus experien

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-03-26 Thread Carmine Casciato
Karl Voit writes: > Hi! > > TL;DR: org-feed.el is not a doable replacement for Google Reader. >What about alternatives? Hi Karl, You can perhaps try with Gnus and Gwene? It seems like many people have been uploading their OPML's since the Reader announcement, so there is a nice selecti

Re: [O] Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader

2013-03-26 Thread Andreas Leha
Hi Karl, Karl Voit writes: > Hi! > > TL;DR: org-feed.el is not a doable replacement for Google Reader. >What about alternatives? > > I am using Google Reader with the Android app "NewsRob Pro" which is > very good in terms of features that make sense and support my > workflow. > > Google