;;; newsticker.el --- A Newsticker for Emacs. -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; Copyright (C) 2003-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Ulf Jasper ;; URL: https://www.nongnu.org/newsticker ;; Created: 17. June 2003 ;; Keywords: News, RSS, Atom ;; ====================================================================== ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or ;; (at your option) any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see . (defconst newsticker-version "1.99" "Version number of newsticker.el.") (make-obsolete-variable 'newsticker-version 'emacs-version "25.1") ;; ====================================================================== ;;; Commentary: ;; Overview ;; -------- ;; Newsticker provides a newsticker for Emacs. A newsticker is a thing ;; that asynchronously retrieves headlines from a list of news sites, ;; prepares these headlines for reading, and allows for loading the ;; corresponding articles in a web browser. ;; Headlines consist of a title and (possibly) a small description. They ;; are contained in "RSS" (RDF Site Summary) or "Atom" files. Newsticker ;; should work with the following RSS formats: ;; * RSS 0.91 ;; (see http://backend.userland.com/rss091) ;; * RSS 0.92 ;; (see http://backend.userland.com/rss092) ;; * RSS 1.0 ;; (see https://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/spec) ;; * RSS 2.0 ;; (see https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/) ;; as well as the following Atom formats: ;; * Atom 0.3 ;; * Atom 1.0 ;; (see https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-format-11.txt) ;; That makes Newsticker.el an "Atom aggregator, "RSS reader", "RSS ;; aggregator", and "Feed Reader". ;; Newsticker provides several commands for reading headlines, navigating ;; through them, marking them as read/unread, hiding old headlines ;; etc. Headlines can be displayed as plain text or as rendered HTML. ;; Headlines can be displayed in the echo area, either scrolling like ;; messages in a stock-quote ticker, or just changing. ;; Newsticker allows for automatic processing of headlines by providing ;; hooks and (sample) functions for automatically downloading images and ;; enclosed files (as delivered by podcasts, e.g.). ;; Requirements ;; ------------ ;; Newsticker requires a program which can retrieve files via http and ;; prints them to stdout. By default Newsticker will use wget for this ;; task. ;; Installation ;; ------------ ;; If you are using `imenu', which allows for navigating with the help of a ;; menu, you should add the following to your Emacs startup file ;; (`~/.emacs'). ;; (add-hook 'newsticker-mode-hook 'imenu-add-menubar-index) ;; That's it. ;; Usage ;; ----- ;; The command newsticker-show-news will display all available headlines in ;; a special buffer, called `*newsticker*'. It will also start the ;; asynchronous download of headlines. The mode line in the `*newsticker*' ;; buffer informs whenever new headlines have arrived. Clicking ;; mouse-button 2 or pressing RET in this buffer on a headline will call ;; browse-url to load the corresponding news story in your favorite web ;; browser. ;; The scrolling, or flashing of headlines in the echo area, can be started ;; with the command newsticker-start-ticker. It can be stopped with ;; newsticker-stop-ticker. ;; If you just want to start the periodic download of headlines use the ;; command newsticker-start. Calling newsticker-stop will stop the ;; periodic download, but will call newsticker-stop-ticker as well. ;; Configuration ;; ------------- ;; All Newsticker options are customizable, i.e. they can be changed with ;; Emacs customization methods: Call the command customize-group and enter ;; `newsticker' for the customization group. ;; All Newsticker options have reasonable default values, so that in most ;; cases it is not necessary to customize settings before starting ;; Newsticker for the first time. ;; Newsticker options are organized in the following groups. ;; * newsticker-feed contains options that define which news ;; feeds are retrieved and how this is done. ;; o newsticker-url-list defines the list of headlines which are ;; retrieved. ;; o newsticker-retrieval-interval defines how often headlines are ;; retrieved. ;; * newsticker-headline-processing contains options that define how the ;; retrieved headlines are processed. ;; o newsticker-keep-obsolete-items decides whether unread headlines that ;; have been removed from the feed are kept in the Newsticker cache. ;; * newsticker-layout contains options that define how the buffer for ;; reading news headlines is formatted. ;; o newsticker-item-format defines how the title of a headline is ;; formatted. ;; * newsticker-ticker contains options that define how headlines are shown ;; in the echo area. ;; o newsticker-display-interval and newsticker-scroll-smoothly define ;; how headlines are shown in the echo area. ;; * newsticker-hooks contains options for hooking other Emacs commands to ;; newsticker functions. ;; o newsticker-new-item-functions allows for automatic processing of ;; headlines. See `newsticker-download-images', and ;; `newsticker-download-enclosures' for sample functions. ;; * newsticker-miscellaneous contains other Newsticker options. ;; Please have a look at the customization buffers for the complete list of ;; options. ;; Remarks ;; ------- ;; This newsticker is designed do its job silently in the background ;; without disturbing you. However, it is probably impossible to prevent ;; such a tool from slightly attenuating your Editor's responsiveness every ;; once in a while. ;; Byte-compiling newsticker.el is recommended. ;; ====================================================================== ;;; History: ;; 1.99 ;; * Lots! of changes. ;; 1.10x ;; * Support for download via url. Setting the new variable ;; `newsticker-download-method' to 'intern will make newsticker ;; use the url-package instead of the external program ;; wget. Default value is 'extern. ;; * Re-enabled `newsticker-default-face'. ;; * Workaround for broken extra-data. ;; 1.10 (2007-01-29) ;; * Bugfixes mostly: `newsticker--decode-iso8601-date', ;; `newsticker--sentinel', and others. ;; * Renamed `newsticker--retrieval-timer-list' to ;; `newsticker-retrieval-timer-list'. Removed ;; `newsticker-running-p' -- check newsticker-retrieval-timer-list ;; to find out whether newsticker is running. Removed ;; `newsticker-ticker-running-p'. ;; * Try to cache images in w3m-rendered HTML text. ;; * Other minor changes. ;; 1.9 (2005-11-01) ;; * Rewrote feed parsing part. Newsticker now supports RSS 0.91, ;; 0.92, 1.0, 2.0 as well as Atom 0.3 and 1.0 -- thanks to Thien-Thi ;; Nguyen. ;; * Changed auto-marking mechanism: Replaced variable ;; `newsticker-auto-mark-filter' with new variable ;; `newsticker-auto-mark-filter-list', which allows for looking not ;; only at the title but also at the description of a headline. ;; * Call `newsticker--ticker-text-setup' only after all pending ;; downloads processes have finished. ;; * Improved handling of coding systems. ;; * Added magic autoload comments. ;; * Bugfixes: ;; - `hide-entry' was hiding too much when called for the last ;; headline, ;; - update mode-line and menu-bar when necessary, ;; - repaired `newsticker--imenu-goto', ;; - other minor things. ;; 1.8 (2005-08-26) ;; * Added commands `newsticker-show-extra' and `newsticker-hide-extra' ;; to show and hide extra RSS elements, bound to "sx" and "hx" ;; resp. Changed default value of `newsticker-show-all-rss-elements' ;; to nil. ;; * mode-line: Introduced special mode-line-format for newsticker. ;; * Get feed logos only once every 24 h. ;; * Default faces changed. ;; * Minor fixes. ;; 1.7 (2005-06-25) ;; * Tool-bar support: most important commands can be called from ;; tool-bar buttons. ;; * Auto-Narrowing introduced: *newsticker* buffer can be narrowed to ;; a single item (bound to key `xi') or a single feed (bound to ;; `xf'). ;; * Enclosure support: enclosed items are shown (see ;; `newsticker-enclosure-face') and can be (automatically) downloaded ;; (see below). For those of you who read "podcasts". ;; * Added variable `newsticker-auto-mark-filter' for automatically ;; marking items as immortal or old. ;; * Added hook variable `newsticker-new-item-functions' for handling ;; new items. Added sample functions `newsticker-download-images', ;; and `newsticker-download-enclosures'. ;; * Added hook variable `newsticker-select-item-hook' which is run ;; after `newsticker-(next|previous)-(new-)?-item'. ;; * Added hook variable `newsticker-select-feed-hook' which is run ;; after `newsticker-(next|previous)-feed'. ;; * Added hook variable `newsticker-buffer-change-hook' which is run ;; after the contents or visibility of the newsticker buffer has ;; changed, e.g. after `newsticker-buffer-update' or ;; `newsticker-show-feed-desc'. ;; * Added command `newsticker-handle-url' for interactively launching ;; arbitrary programs for URLs, bound to `C-RET'. ;; * URLs in extra elements are clickable. ;; * Better support for w3, added command ;; `newsticker-w3m-show-inline-images' for displaying all inline ;; images. ;; * Insert an artificial headline which notifies about failed ;; retrievals. ;; * Use pubDate element (RSS 2.0) instead of retrieval time when ;; available. ;; * Customizable options grouped. ;; * Bugfixes: `newsticker--imenu-create-index'; strip whitespace ;; from links; apply coding-system to extra-elements; time-comparison ;; for obsolete items; and others which I have forgotten. ;; * Workaround for another bug in xml-parse-region -- thanks to ;; anonymous for sending patch. ;; * Renamed invisible buffers ` *wget-newsticker-*' to ;; ` *newsticker-wget-*'. ;; * Tested with GNU Emacs versions 21.3 and 22.0 and XEmacs ;; 21.something. ;; 1.6 * Support for (some) optional RSS elements: guid, dc:date. See ;; `newsticker-show-all-rss-elements' `newsticker-extra-face'. ;; * Better support for w3m -- `newsticker-default-face' is obsolete ;; now, removed `newsticker-w3m-toggle-inline-image'. ;; * Added `newsticker-desc-comp-max' -- comparison of item ;; descriptions can take quite some time. ;; * Added `newsticker--buffer-make-item-completely-visible' to ;; ensure that the current item is fully visible. ;; * Allow for non-positive retrieval-interval, which make newsticker ;; get news only once. ;; * Use :set for customizable variables. ;; * Added `newsticker-buffer-force-update', bound to key `U'. ;; * Added concept of obsolete items, see ;; `newsticker-keep-obsolete-items', `newsticker-obsolete-item-face', ;; `newsticker-obsolete-item-max-age'. ;; * Added `newsticker-add-url'. ;; * OPML export. ;; * Save pre-formatted titles => even better performance!! ;; * `newsticker-*-new-item' wraps at beginning/end of buffer. ;; * Always sort obsolete items to end of item list. ;; * Bugfixes: ;; - newsticker-hide-entry, ;; - changes of feed-titles led to duplicate feed items, ;; - faces for rendered HTML texts, ;; - length of ticker-text (for "exotic"/multibyte texts), ;; Thanks to Hiroshi Maruyama. ;; - suppress items with empty title and description ;; - newsticker-sort-method was ignored! ;; - prevent call of fill-region on HTML-rendered descriptions. ;; 1.5 * Rewrote the visibility stuff. newsticker does not inherit ;; outline anymore. Now you have complete freedom for ;; `newsticker-*-format'. ;; * Save pre-formatted descriptions => incredible performance boost!! ;; * Introduced `newsticker-(start|stop)-ticker'. ;; * Introduced statistics for heading-format and ;; `newsticker-statistics-face'. ;; * Introduced `newsticker-enable-logo-manipulations'. ;; * Compare link of items (as well as title and desc). ;; * Added `newsticker-start-hook' and `newsticker-stop-hook', thanks ;; to mace. ;; * Bugfixes -- thanks to Ryan Yeske, Jari Aalto, Bruce Ingalls. ;; * Tested with Emacs 21.3.50, 21.3.1, 21.2, 21.1; XEmacs 21.4.15 ;; 1.4 * Enabled HTML rendering, added `newsticker-html-renderer' to ;; choose a HTML rendering engine, thanks to Greg Scott for testing ;; * New Outline handling using text properties instead of "**" ;; prefixes. ;; * Added possibility to mark single item as old (bound to key ;; `o' (`newsticker-mark-item-at-point-as-read'). ;; * Added possibility to mark single item as immortal (bound to key ;; `i' (`newsticker-mark-item-at-point-as-immortal'). ;; * Added possibility to display feed logos. ;; * Added `newsticker-heading-format', `newsticker-item-format'. ;; * Added `newsticker-date-format'. ;; * Added `newsticker-justification'. ;; * Added `newsticker-automatically-mark-visited-items-as-old'. ;; * Added `newsticker-w3m-toggle-inline-image' which calls ;; `w3m-toggle-inline-image' if `newsticker-html-renderer' is ;; `w3m-region'. Exists for convenience only (bound to key ;; `RET'). ;; 1.3 * Compare title AND desc to check whether item is old, except ;; for feed desc ;; * Mark as not-up-to-date only after new items have arrived. ;; * Added XEmacs compatibility code, tested with XEmacs 21.4.13. ;; * Tested with Emacs 21.3.50 and Emacs 21.2.something. ;; * Bugfix: Apply coding-systems to feed title and description, ;; thanks to OHASHI Akira ;; * Bugfix: xml-parser-workaround did not work for japanese texts, ;; thanks to OHASHI Akira ;; * Kill wget-buffers unless newsticker-debug is not nil. ;; * Bugfix: xml-parser-workaround for "DOCTYPE rdf:RDF" ;; 1.2 Peter S Galbraith ;; * Added `newsticker-url-list-defaults', splitting the URLs into ;; a customizable selection list, and a user add-on list. ;; * Minor checkdoc fixes. ;; 1.1 * Introduced optional feed-specific wget-arguments. ;; * Keep order of feeds as given in `newsticker-url-list' in ;; *newsticker* buffer. ;; * Ignore unsupported coding systems. ;; 1.0 * Introduced feed-specific retrieval-timers. ;; * Removed dependency on 'cl (cddddr). ;; * Thanks to Kevin Rodgers and T.V. Raman for their help. ;; * Use utf-8 for reading and writing cache data. ;; * Reported to work with Emacs 21.3.50. ;; 0.99 * Minor tweaks. ;; * Tested with Emacs 21.3.2 ;; 0.98 * Check exit status of wget processes. Keep cache data if ;; something went wrong. Throw error when old wget-processes ;; are hanging around. ;; * Introduced newsticker-specific faces. ;; * Added `newsticker-show-descriptions-of-new-items'. ;; * Added `newsticker-hide-old-items-in-newsticker-buffer'. ;; * Added `newsticker-(hide|show)-old-items'. ;; 0.97 * Minor tweaks. ;; 0.96 * Added caching. ;; * newsticker-mode inherits outline-mode. ;; * newsticker-mode supports imenu. ;; * Easy buffer-navigation with newsticker-mode's keymap. ;; * Some bugs fixed. ;; * Thanks to Moritz Epple for documentation tips. ;; 0.95 * Added newsticker-mode -- Thanks to T.V. Raman. ;; * Catch xml-parser errors -- Thanks to T.V. Raman. ;; * Remove stupid newlines in titles (headlines) -- Thanks to ;; Jeff Rancier. ;; 0.94 * Added clickability and description for channel headings. ;; * Made it work for (at least some) rss 0.9 feeds. ;; 0.93 * Added some more sites. ;; * Do not flood the *Messages* buffer. ;; * First attempt at handling coding systems. ;; 0.92 * Added `newsticker-wget-name'. ;; * Try to display message only if minibuffer and echo area are ;; not in use already. ;; * Dirty workaround for newer versions of xml.el: Remove ;; whitespace in rdf. ;; * Tested with Emacs 21.3.2 and CVS-snapshot of 2003-06-21. ;; 0.91 * First bugfix: *newsticker* is read-only. ;; 0.9 * First release. ;; * Tested with Emacs 21.3.2 and wget 1.8.2. ;; ====================================================================== ;;; Code: (require 'newst-backend) (require 'newst-ticker) (require 'newst-reader) (require 'newst-plainview) (require 'newst-treeview) (provide 'newsticker) ;;; newsticker.el ends here