Re: Displaying images in nnrss feeds

[Peter Russell]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>>>>>> In <85d517acr0.fsf@qustom.co.uk> Peter Russell wrote:
>
>> I've added the RSS feed for http://planet.gnome.org, which is always a
>> pretty interesting read, and I'm impressed by how well it works.  Some
>> of the posts on the feed have "hackergotchis", images of the poster
>> which are attached to posts.  These appear in Gnus as text like this:
>
>> [jdub]
>
>> And when I put the point over them, and press enter the images are
>> downloaded and displayed inline.
>
> You've set `mm-text-html-renderer' to `w3m'.  Right?

Well, I didn't set it, but that is it's value.  I guess installing the
emacs-w3m package must have set it.

>
>> Is it possible to make these images display by default?  I can't find
>> any option to do this.
>
>> I'd really like all images in posts to be displayed by default, but
>> it's the hackergotchis I care more about.
>
> There is a way to do that if you use emacs-w3m.  Try putting the
> following forms in your ~/.gnus.el file:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ;; Set the default values of `mm-w3m-safe-url-regexp'
> ;; and `mm-inline-text-html-with-images'.
> (eval-after-load "gnus-sum"
>   '(progn
>      (add-to-list 'gnus-newsgroup-variables
>                 '(mm-w3m-safe-url-regexp . "\\`cid:"))
>      (add-to-list 'gnus-newsgroup-variables
>                 '(mm-inline-text-html-with-images . nil))))
>
> ;; Display images inline in `nnrss' groups.
> (add-to-list 'gnus-parameters
>            '("\\`nnrss:"
>              (mm-inline-text-html-with-images t)
>              (mm-w3m-safe-url-regexp nil)))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>

Brilliant, that worked perfectly.

> You can find a similar example in the Gnus manual:
>
> (info "(gnus)RSS") <- Type `C-x C-e' here.

I think I'm going to like having mail and news inside emacs :-)

> The Emacs MIME manual will be helpful as well:
>
> (info "(emacs-mime)Display Customization")

Bookmarked.

Thanks very much for your fast and helpful reply.

-- 
Peter Russell
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