When will we get a "programer's web browser"? I mean a full blown browser of current generation abilities, but with the option of completely keyboard driven interaction. Concise input of small commands (navigation, data extraction, exploring and massaging of extracted data, data uploading etc.) that can be composed to form more complex interactions. It should have full interoperability with the CLI, don't go re-inven…
A vim interface for gmail: Vmail
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#42When will we get a "programer's web browser"? I mean a full blown browser of current generation abilities, but with the option of completely keyboard driven interaction. Concise input of small commands (navigation, data extraction, exploring and massaging of extracted data, data uploading etc.) that can be composed to form more complex interactions. It should have full interoperability with the CLI, don't go re-inven…
it's called uzbl
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#43To me, here at work on a Windows machine, that looks like way too many dependencies for me. Looks cool, though.
With as much ram as people have on their machines these days, try virtualizing!
Especially with utilities such as Vagrant[0], for which there are many ready-made boxes[1] that make short work of spinning up new VMs. My main development "box" is a VM on a win host and it works wonderfully.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
How did you come to this conclusion? If you've found a bug, please file a ticket. Gnome keyring definitely uses encryption to store passwords; they take security pretty seriously: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/SecurityPhilosophy
I think what he meant was seahorse. I just tried it out and I can see my raw passwords by clicking properties and ticking 'Show Password'. Shocked as well, not to mention seahorse is launched without asking my password.
This isn't shocking; Mac OS X will also happily show you your passwords. It stores them encrypted, then decrypts them for you after your keychain is unlocked.
Re: A vim interface for gmail: Vmail
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Welcome to Hacker News.
Well, consider GP's assessment as envy of those who use Gmail and therefore can benefit from this nice piece of software.
Yes, that's what I was told when I made similar comments about IE only websites years ago as well.
How short of a memory does this community have if they don't understand what comes after "embrace" and "extend"?
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#46Wow, I love the idea. I have always wanted to manage my mail via terminal, but didn't want to set up Mutt or something similar.
Setting up mutt for GMail these days is no harder than setting up vmail. This is a complete config file for mutt that will connect to your gmail account: set folder=imaps://imap.gmail.com:993 set spoolfile=+INBOX set imap_user='your_username@gmail.com' set smtp_url = "smtp://your_username@smtp.gmail.com:587/" If you don't want to enter your password every time, you can set it as imap_pass (for reading) and smtp_pass…
Using Gmail in mutt directly over IMAP is sloooow. It's a bit more work to set up something like OfflineIMAP, fdm, or something else.
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#47When will we get a "programer's web browser"? I mean a full blown browser of current generation abilities, but with the option of completely keyboard driven interaction. Concise input of small commands (navigation, data extraction, exploring and massaging of extracted data, data uploading etc.) that can be composed to form more complex interactions. It should have full interoperability with the CLI, don't go re-inven…
For now, as has been pointed out, the answer is uzbl.
(Almost exactly what you describe is my current dream project, pieces designed, pieces roughed out, no part even remotely finished. The one I will get back to working on as soon as my startup exits and I have money and time. Or when it fails and I have time. You are not alone in wanting this.)
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#48for vim fans, another option is mutt or alpine with vim as your editor. Both work with gmail.
Yeah. This is cool and all, but it's kind of like modifying your cigarette lighter to carry passengers.
You could also look at it like carrying a cigarette lighter with you that you like rather than using whatever fire making tool is around when you need one.
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#49When will we get a "programer's web browser"? I mean a full blown browser of current generation abilities, but with the option of completely keyboard driven interaction. Concise input of small commands (navigation, data extraction, exploring and massaging of extracted data, data uploading etc.) that can be composed to form more complex interactions. It should have full interoperability with the CLI, don't go re-inven…
>It should be extensible, but only by 1 language. Competing programer's browsers could offer alternative extension languages as their differentiator.
Why not have a packet-based interface for browser extentions AND automation? (like a database)
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, consider GP's assessment as envy of those who use Gmail and therefore can benefit from this nice piece of software.
Yes, that's what I was told when I made similar comments about IE only websites years ago as well. How short of a memory does this community have if they don't understand what comes after "embrace" and "extend"?
So the guy who wrote it uses gmail. There's no ulterior motive there. Just a person who uses gmail who wanted to use it in vim