In an earlier post, I set up gnus to read some RSS feeds. I wasn’t happy with the dependency on a web service, and I didn’t like having the comics in separate groups. So I wrote Ms. RSS, a tool to Merge &; Scrub RSS feeds. To pull down my favourite comic feeds into something that doesn’t make gnus barf, I use something like this:
$ msrss -o webcomics.xml -t Webcomics -k '' \
-l 'Darths & Droids' http://www.darthsanddroids.net/rss.xml \
-l 'Irregular Webcomic!' http://irregularwebcomic.net/rss4.xml \
-l 'xkcd' http://xkcd.com/rss.xml \
-l 'Dr. McNinja' http://drmcninja.com/feed/UPDATE: I multiplex my RSS feeds now and sanitise them client-side.
I read a few online comics. I’ve been meaning to subsribe to their RSS feeds for some time, instead of repeatedly refreshing them as a form of procrastination. It turns out that Gnus can do this quite easily.
Press “G R” (gnus-group-make-rss-group) in the
*Group* buffer, enter the feed URL and give it a name. It
failed to parse one feed, forcing me to run the offending feed through
The Feed Sanitiser.
It’s neat, but I won’t be 100% happy until I can get emacs to display the images inline. I don’t like relying on an external webapp for sanitation and Gnus is a bit slow at updating all the groups. In the future I’d like to have an RSS multiplexer that output one sanitised feed that I could read straight from disk.
Last weekend was the Australian Wooden Boat Festival. I managed to head down from the maritime college and catch up with everyone. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the festival was HUGE. Elizabeth Street Pier was packed full of tall ships:
