Re: Adding Freefall

On 2025-03-26, Nuno Silva wrote:

> On 2025-03-26, Adam Sjøgren wrote:
>
>> Nuno writes:
>>
>>> if I'm not misreading the code, in gnus-html.el, href's value is
>>> assumed to be surrounded by double quotes.
>>
>> That sounds odd, in HTML '' and "" can be used interchangably.
>>
>> Oh, you're talking about washing, not about rendering HTML with shr?
>
> Not sure how it's called, but yes, I think so.
>
> I guess I moved away from shr a long time ago to avoid the dependency on
> libxml2.
>
>> I would guess the washing functions are more ad-hoc than shr.
>
> I'm surprised that it has remained this way so far, nobody else has been
> hitting this issue?
>
> What'd be the proper thing to do here? I suppose redefining the function
> to try two different regexes?
>
> (Also, could/should I crosspost this to some Gnus group?)

The quick and dirty hack of changing it to

	(when (or (string-match "href=\"\\([^\"]+\\)" parameters)
		  (string-match "href='\\([^\']+\\)" parameters))

appears to work. Now how ugly is this and what have I broken?

-- 
Nuno Silva