Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?

There is a pretty well updated cli for Slack built on top of WeeChat (hailing from IRC heritage) https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack

Thats why i put need in quotes.

Sure you can get away with it but vim plugin is no where close to what you can do in Idea. Not even in the same orbit.

Any thoughts regarding irssi vs weechat?

I'm not sure what specific issues you've had with mutt, but I have mine setup with multiple accounts & have in the past used it for a work account where I had to do IMAP/SMTP auth via oauth token rather than username/password. It's definitely not a super well supported happy path & requires some setup, but it's worked well for me.

- Multiple accounts: I have a per-account config file with the relevant specifics (https://github.com/wfleming/dotfiles/tree/arch-linux/home/co...) and use folder hooks to apply those depending on which mailbox I'm viewing (https://github.com/wfleming/dotfiles/blob/arch-linux/home/co...). (Plus a keybinding in each account file to make flipping to the next account easy.)

- Non-standard auth:

  - I use offlineimap to sync my mail, and it supports oauth2 for Gmail. The arch wiki has helpful details: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/OfflineIMAP#Configuring_OAuth2_and_getting_access_tokens_via_mailctl

  - For sending mail, I use msmtp, which also supports oauth2. Again, arch wiki has some helpful details. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Msmtp#OAuth2_Setup

For web & Slack, I sympathize and have toyed with CLI alternatives in the past, but I'm come to terms with the the fact that it's just not that feasible for the most part. Personally, I spend as much time in the terminal as I can, but I've given up on fighting against the tide for everything. The only native apps I usually have open are Firefox, Slack, and Spotify, and that's acceptable to me since it ends up meaning I still spend most of my day in a terminal.

I was a terminal poweruser wannabe. For a time I tried just using tmux and Vim on almost all occasions. I still use Vim for something, like writing Puppet code. For everything else: I've just come to embrace to the GUI.

Unless you're an absolute terminal power user that can masterfully navigate tmux, vim or whatever tools you use, I don't think it's a good use of time. There certainly are things where the terminal is the right tools, use it in those situations. Just ask yourself if you're artificially limiting yourself, simply because you think the cool kids use the terminal.