I’ve been reading RSS and Atom feeds in Gnus for a few weeks, having moved over from elfeed. IIRC in elfeed it was pretty easy to visit the URL that an entry summarized. I’ve been searching for a while to do the same in Gnus, without much luck.

But today I finally hit C-h b while in the Gnus summary buffer, and finally noticed w bound to gnus-summary-browse-url. Aha! This function will “Scan the current article body for links, and offer to browse them.” For many articles, this will get me the one and only link, to the article. For some of the articles, this finds several URLs, so I just have to try to pick the right one. For that, I note

If only one link is found, browse that directly, otherwise use completion to select a link. The first link marked in the article text with ‘gnus-collect-urls-primary-text’ is the default.

And what is gnus-collect-urls-primary-text? It’s “The button text for the default link in ‘gnus-summary-browse-url’” and its value is “Link”. Exactly what I’m usually seeking!

This is an example of Emacs being self-documenting.