Achim Gratz wrote:
>David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de> writes:

>> Okay, I've pushed a change to master that adds two functions
>> `org-wl-open-nntp' and `org-gnus-open-nntp' to open nntp: links with
>> WL or Gnus, respectively.

>Thanks, that looks good.  Gnus still doesn't do anything and silently
>ignores the link, but I'm almost certain that this is due to GNUS and
>how it's currently configured on my end rather than Org...  Amusingly,
>when not registering the link handler, Org creates a new headline at the
>end of the buffer with the link content.

Did you register the link type?

This works for me:

(org-add-link-type "nntp" 'org-gnus-open-nntp)

And these links open fine:

,----[ *x* ]
|
| * X
|
| [[nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.general][Usenet 1]]
|
| [[nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.general/2005][Usenet 2]]
`----

Best,
  -- David
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