Achim Gratz wrote:

>It seems like news: links are always sent to the browser and this
>definition is hiding a later invocation of GNUS:

Indeed, this is an inconsistency.  The right way would be for org-gnus
(and other mail readers, like org-wl) to register the link type.


>---------------
>	 ((member type '("http" "https" "ftp" "news"))
>	  (browse-url (concat type ":" (org-link-escape
>					path org-link-escape-chars-browser))))
>         ;;;
>         ;;; some more lines
>         ;;;
>	 ((string= type "news")
>	  (require 'org-gnus)
>	  (org-gnus-follow-link path))
>---------------

>Additionally, if I take out "news" from the first bit of code and follow
>a news: link, the code that supposedly opens news links in GNUS doesn't
>seem to work on my system (gmane is a foreign server in GNUS here, but
>that doesn't seem to be the reason).

What syntax did you try?  IIRC `org-gnus-follow-link' expects a /Gnus/
link in path, but RFC5538 ("The 'news' and 'nntp' URI Schemes ")[1] has a
different definition that must be normalized to a org-gnus.link.

I'll see to provide a patch to org-gnus.el to handle news: and nntp:
links according to the specs.

Best,
  -- David

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5538
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