Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Christopher Howard Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Emacs-related ideas for CS master thesis? Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:03:16 -0900 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: <87h5rwcx8b.fsf@librehacker.com> References: <87tsvwoo2z.fsf@posteo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:03:17 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e551d6326f9401d747dd68c7d433050d"; logging-data="2568027"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+0pY8DBEb1T8+ZmYtv/QR1PhkTlks66oY=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:esga9XpfvbrDwL5FoibiBpLw3zg= sha1:hPZqx85zZe89m70Cw9rlveFr3SM= Xref: csiph.com comp.emacs:2514 As a heavy Gnus user, anything that can be done to improve Gnus sounds great. In particular, either improving existing backends, or creating new ones. Backends are basically modules that allows messages from various protocols, such as e-mail messages and RSS/Atom feeds, to show up as articles in Gnus. Something that would be very useful to me would be a backend that allowed subscribing to gemfeeds and/or Atom feeds over the gemini protocol. There are some hackish tricks to do this using nndoc or similar, but it would be great to have a simple to use backend that was actually designed specifically for this. I hear also about something called hAtom and Web Slices, which are apparently very popular, and a backend for that sounds interesting. -- Christopher Howard