Function: url-news

url-news is an autoloaded and byte-compiled function defined in url-news.el.gz.

Signature

(url-news URL)

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/url/url-news.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defun url-news (url)
  ;; Find a news reference
  (let* ((host (or (url-host url) url-news-server))
	 (port (url-port url))
	 ;; (article-brackets nil)
	 (buf nil)
	 (article (url-unhex-string (url-filename url))))
    (url-news-open-host host port (url-user url) (url-password url))
    (cond
     ((string-search "@" article)	; Its a specific article
      (setq buf (url-news-fetch-message-id host article)))
     ((string= article "")		; List all newsgroups
      (gnus))
     (t					; Whole newsgroup
      (url-news-fetch-newsgroup article host)))
    buf))