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Re: Show HN: Cleed – Simple feed reader for the command line

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What poweruser tools are you missing in newsboat?

Not the OP but my biggest missing features would be: - the ability to send the output of one smart query into the input of another - not needing to escape every quotation mark in a query, and maybe the ability to combine operands eg ( title =~ {linux,macos} as opposed to title =~ \"linux\" or title =~ \"macOS\") - a dashboard mode that can show a snippet of the top headlines and maybe autoscroll - ability to mark an…

I think this is one of the reasons I started using rss2email back in the day - I could do the filtering, searching, and manipulation using my preferred email client.

Originally that would have been mutt, later my own client, and later still I switched to gsuite.

I did add support for excluding entries/posts based on title, body, regular expression, and similar, but at the end of the day I just fetch all feed entries and save them as emails. The later processing can be done by any client and that's pretty flexible. There's very little custom processing required in the RSS-processing itself.

Re: Show HN: Cleed – Simple feed reader for the command line

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Looks nice. But I'ts strange that there are so many "simple" feedreaders. Where are the tools for powerusers? How many feeds and formats are people using usually to be satisfied with simple?

What poweruser tools are you missing in newsboat?

A good GUI with Real scripting. A portable version. Maybe better documentation. A client/server-architecture, or some other kind of headless mode with remote access.
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