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Re: Show HN: Simple Hacker News Client for Emacs

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post #18

im new to emacs. can someone pls tell me, how will i update as and when new features have been made available to this package?

If you install it through the package manager (by running M-x package-list-packages and then selecting it from there) you can update it through that as well (hitting U will select all updates). See eg: http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_package_system.html

Re: Show HN: Simple Hacker News Client for Emacs

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post #23

Very nice. But no font locking... I didn't see anything in the code to indicate anything that matches the screen shot.

It looks exactly like the screen shot on my computer.

Weird, I just get plain text. This links work, but no color.

Re: Show HN: Simple Hacker News Client for Emacs

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post #15

Are things like these just proof-of-concepts, or are there many people out there that use these? It's things like this that are just promoting the joke that "Emacs is a great OS, but lacks a good text editor." (Honest question)

I use emacs for email and news reader (gnus), Irc (rcirc), jabber (jabber.el), twitter (twittering-mode), calculator, password storage (PGP encrypted file), and sysadmining (remote/sudo file editing with tramp).

And I use it as my primary development envrionment. I get the same text editor capabilities if I'm writing a tweet, email or code. And yes, vim is a far superior editor. Luckily emacs implements that as well (evil or viper).

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