test to make sure I know the format before copying the current discussion over. -- [http://mutoshack.gitlab.io muto] 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Alright! All done formatting this comment section. All the below comments are ancient, but I'm marking them as being posted today (but referencing the original date when it's supplied) Cheers, and Merry Christmas <3 -- [http://mutoshack.gitlab.io muto] 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Under ntemacs-21.3 and running newsticker, emacs can become a CPU hog. For some reason, newsticker wget under windows does not quit properly when loading images from certain feeds. If this happens to you, try adding --timeout=30 to the newsticker-wget-arguments. -- Unknown 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- It does a (require 'xml). Which XML package is required? -- [AlainMellan] 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- The one that comes with GNU Emacs (>= 21). -- [UlfJasper] 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Too bad, I'm using XEmacs. -- [AlainMellan] 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- There is a net-utils package for XEmacs containing (an) xml.el which works with newsticker.el. I added some XEmacs compatibility code, and now newsticker.el should work with XEmacs. Try the CVS version (>= 1.18, 30.Sep.2003) from http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/newsticker/. -- [UlfJasper] 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Any plans to include Atom (1.0 and optionally 0.3) support? -- Unknown 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- As of version 1.9 newsticker.el supports Atom feeds (0.3 as well as 1.0) (Originally posted 2005-11-04) -- [UlfJasper] 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- I tried it but I got a backtrace when showing news. -- Unknown 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Which Emacs version? Which news feed? What does the backtrace say? Send me a bug report (Originally posted 2005-11-05) -- [Ulf Jasper] 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- For me newsticker works much better than Gnus rss back-end, but I miss the feature to save interested posts via eg. nnimap back-end. Is it possible? -- Unknown 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- You can mark an item as /immortal/ -- that will make it stay in the cache forever. Saving is currently not possible, but that sounds like a good idea. I think I'll add the possibility to save rss/atom items to plain files (but not to IMAP). -- Unknown 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Yes, I'm already keeping articles as 'immortal', but newsticker always ask if I want cache to open 'cause "it's big". otoh, I have lot of 'immortal' articles in cache with lot of inline images. What will come out of them when saved as plain files? -- Unknown 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- I mentioned IMAP in order that saved articles can be searched with mairix ;) -- Unknown 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Saving an item should also save linked images, like webbrowsers can do. Need to find out how this can be done with internal url-package, w3, w3m, wget or whatever... For the warning see `large-file-warning-threshold' (or the next newsticker release;). -- Unknown 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Cool! w3m is good choice and it is already working with newsticker nicely. I'm eager to see next release (after dumping both newspipe & rss2email yesterday and gnus has poor support for rss) :-D -- Unknown 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Is it possible to import feeds from an OPML file? And where can I find documentation for newsticker, there's none in the emacs manual as far as I can see, and the little documentation I've managed to find doesn't, for example, tell me how to delete feeds. -- Unknown 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Try `newsticker-opml-import'! (If you encounter problems with nested opml files try the CVS version from savannah.) Newsticker comes with a very brief manual, separate from the Emacs manual (`C-h i m newsticker RET'). For customizing newsticker click on the customize-button on the toolbar, or type `M-x customize-group RET newsticker RET'. -- [UlfJasper] 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Does anyone know why newsticker uses so many CPU cycles just to download and render rss feeds? My processor revs up to 100% capacity for a couple of minutes just to download and display 10 feeds. Gnus/nnrss maxes out at perhaps 10% CPU capacity for the same feeds, and fetches them twice as fast. And when I try to use an external program like wget to fetch feeds, the instructions newsticker sends it causes it to get stuck in a loop at 100% CPU. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. -- [MattLundin] 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- I guess that it is the xml parsing that takes so long. Please send me the URLs of those feeds. I shall have a look then. Using wget for fetching feeds should just work. Could you provide more details? What platform are you using? -- [UlfJasper] 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Thanks for the reply. I'm using Newsticker 1.99 on Ubuntu 8.10/Emacs 23.0.90 and Mac OS X/Emacs 22.3. I cleared my old newsticker settings and customized from scratch -- everything now works fine. Sorry for the false alarm, and thanks for a wonderful rss reader. I do have one additional question. I noticed that the emacs development version of newsticker has a new location for storing data (newsticker-dir). As far as I can tell, the development version of newsticker always disregards my settings for .newsticker-cache and .newsticker-group locations in favor of the directory setting. Does this mean that the former files are now obsolete? Or is it possible to continue using the old files? Thanks. -- [MattLundin] 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Variables ##newsticker-cache-filename## and ##newsticker-groups-filename## have been replaced with ##newsticker-dir##. They have become obsolete in the latest newsticker version (in Emacs CVS). Newsticker will automatically convert your data: If these files are present newsticker will read them, store data in ##newsticker-dir##, and offers to remove them. If this does not work, please tell me. -- [UlfJasper] 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- I use emacs without X, in the terminal exclusively (Ubuntu emacs-nox package). It doesn't have XPM support (obviously) and apparently newsticker chokes when it can't load its XPM icons ("Invalid image type `xpm'"). This is kinda annoying since I can't use emacs-gtk (no anti-aliasing support...) or emacs-snapshot (would solve the anti-aliasing problem I guess, but last time I tried emacs 23 apparently didn't handle yet some other packages I use routinely). Could there be an alternative text-only version of the XPM icons like there is for tabbar-mode ? -- [FabriceGabolde] 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Is there any way to sort the *Newsticker Tree* buffer? -- Unknown 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Currently (2009-12-16) there are keys for adding groups (M-a) and for moving feeds to groups (M-m). In order to sort feeds and groups one has to edit ##~/.emacs.d/newsticker/groups## (##`newsticker-dir'/groups##). -- [UlfJasper] 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Where can I find example ##~/.emacs.d/newsticker/groups## file? The format seems to be completely undocumented. -- Unknown 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Is Newsticker not maintained anymore? -- Unknown 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC ---- Newsticker is part of GNU Emacs. -- [UlfJasper] 2023-12-12 02:52 UTC