Hi mutters,
here it is a bash script which fetches the message id from a mail
message, assemblates a corresponding G-mane address and eventually
launches a browser on it.
Try:
gmane-find -h
to see how it works.
The browser command has to be defined at the beginning of the script.
Possible use with mutt:
macro index,pager G "<pipe-message>gmane-find -tb<return>" "launch the browser
to the corresponding G-mane archive page"
Hope you'll find it useful :-).
Cheers.
--
mutt random tip #4
You can improve the modularity of your mutt configuration using the source
command.
Usage:
source <filename>
#!/bin/bash
E_BADARGS=65
# change this to your web browser
browser_command=/usr/bin/firefox
# eagerly strip the leading part of the script filename (/foo/bar/baz -> baz)
my_name=${0##*/}
usage() {
cat <<EOT
Usage: $my_name <options> [<filename>]
Extract the message-ID from the mail, format a corresponding gmane address
and eventually access it with the command \"$browser_command\".
If no filename is provided then process stdin.
Options:
-h|--help|--usage Print this help
-b|--browse Launch "$browser_command" on the found url.
-a|--article Print or browse the gmane article url (default)
-t|--thread Print or browse the gmane thread url
EOT
}
# reset the arguments strings using the parsing facility provided by getopt
args=$(getopt -n $my_name -lhelp -lusage -lbrowse -larticle -lthread -o habt --
$@)
if ! [ $? = '0' ]; then
echo "$my_name: parsing error." 2>&1;
usage 2>&1
exit $E_BADARGS
fi
eval set -- $args
browse=off
url_type="article"
# command line arguments parsing
# continue when there are arguments to parse
while [ -n "$1" ]; do
case "$1" in
-h|--help|--usage)
usage
exit 0;;
-a|--article)
url_type="article"
;;
-t|--thread)
url_type="thread"
;;
-b|--browse)
browse=on;
;;
--)
shift
break;;
esac
shift
done
message_id=$(grep -i "^Message-id:" $1 | sed -e 's/.*<\(.*\)>/\1/')
if [ -z "$message_id" ]; then
echo "$my_name: no message-id found in input or no input." 1>&2
exit 1
fi
if [ $url_type = "thread" ]; then
url="http://thread.gmane.org/$message_id";
else
url="http://mid.gmane.org/$message_id";
fi
echo $url
if [ $browse = "on" ]; then
$browser_command $url
fi
exit 0
