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Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by skydhash »

JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B wrote: post #132
tsukurimashou wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

its a productivity thing, would you rather type text with a physical keyboard or would you rather use a virtual keyboard and mouse? you can miss more easily with a mouse and have to adjust the position of the cursor to line up on two axis before any action

I guess it depends on the kind of application. I use the keyboard a lot, but I'd kill myself if I had to use the git command-line interface. Once I bought Sublime Merge, I stopped learning what was (and still is) a waste of time to me. I'm faster with a global visual description and a mouse for some tools.

While Sublime Merge is a nice piece of software, Magit is the very best example of a power user tool. Fast, versatile, and intuitive.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by ramenbytes »

wongogue wrote: post #28
ramenbytes wrote: post #20

The one thing holding me back from this is not being able to run UBlock origin on it yet. I keep telling myself that eventually I'll have the spare time to change that myself....

It already has an adblocker. Check the FAQ.

AdBlocker, yes. UBlock Origin, no. Maybe it's since reached feature parity, last time I checked it hadn't from what I could tell.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by skydhash »

jorvi wrote: post #131
dartos wrote: post #127

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Touchpads don’t solve for muscle memory for the same reasons mouses don’t. And yeah, of course. Most people who use keyboard based workflows dont just use hjkl to move a cursor around. In vim, for example, there are many more text-centric ways of moving around a document. Using a keyboard is generally much faster. Try using your daily code editor without any hot keys at all. No F5, no Ctrl-s, none of that.

> Touchpads don’t solve for muscle memory for the same reasons mouses don’t. Uh, what? I have my touchpad tuned so that one swipe from top left to bottom right is exactly equal to going from the top left to bottom right of my display. And aside from that, how do you think people play FPS games, that they think about every mouse movement and then do it? > Most people who use keyboard based workflows dont just use hjkl…

> I’ll happily be leaping over hundreds of lines of text with one or two swipes whilst you are sitting there

I’d be doing search and land exactly where I need to be. For each important operation, there’s always a more efficient operations as shortcuts are composable in a way pointing is not.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by raydev »

ucosty wrote: post #97
wkat4242 wrote: post #83

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> I don't get the hype of keyboard == hacker mentality. It's all about investing a little time to learn something that dramatically speeds up your workflow. A mainstream user has no interest in this even if they work with the computer all day. Hackers as computer enthusiasts do. When you worked on those early computers you either had to be an enthusiast or be forced by an employer to use them :) GUIs are great for in…

We're talking about a web browser, right? What workflow?

Finding relevant text quickly. On the web. The web is where you go to find more information.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by sourcepluck »

pjmlp wrote: post #54

As someone that started in computing when affordable computing was all about keyboard, and mices only existed in computers with prices similar to buying a car or a mortgage, I don't get the hype of keyboard == hacker mentality. Specially since that on my hacker circle of Demoscene, during the 16 bit days, we were mostly on Atari and Amiga systems, then we had plenty of mouse time, and no one ever stop to wonder we we…

> I don't get the hype of keyboard == hacker mentality

There's no (or extremely little...) hype, it's just the sort of thing which starts to appear prominent in a world where conversations are driven more and more by the titles on videos and articles, rather than the other way around.

I claim that the following are all pretty factual, all at once:

1. meese can be faster and more convenient, in certain cases

2. keyboards can be faster and more convenient, in certain cases

3. what people (even the computer-savvy) are used to matters much more than what is "objectively" best or fastest or whatever

4. "hacker" is a polysemic term - playful creative norm-bending, technical mastery of some domain, making Ataris and Amigas do funny stuff it seems they shouldn't have been able to, getting access to a gaming console you weren't supposed to, solving a problem in a surprising manner, reverse engineering some game, etc

5. emacs is an empowering, wonderful text editor

6. so is (hyper/super/ultra/n/eo/) vi(m)

7. nyxt is about much more than keyboard shortcuts (Lisp, freedom, etc)

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by irthomasthomas »

alanbernstein wrote: post #175

What I want is a hacker's bookmark manager, but integrated into my existing browser (Firefox).

I use nyxt browser and a lisp function to send my bookmarks to GitHub issue. my domain https://undecidability.com redirects to it. And the code for it is at https://GitHub.com/irthomasthomas/label-maker (it started as an gh issues ai manager. Bookmarks is just my main use-case for that)

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by irthomasthomas »

Curiositry wrote: post #5

A few years ago I doggedly tried to switch to Nyxt for everyday use. I really liked the concept, but at the time, it was too buggy, and constantly crashed on me. I'm going give it another shot.

It's been my default browser for about a year. Most bugs have been fixed. Only twitter still crashes it.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by sourcepluck »

llm_trw wrote: post #40
vindarel wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(which can be written in other editors: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... vim, VSCode with LSP support, Jetbrains, Atom/Pulsar, Sublime, Jupyter notebook…) (just saying to not scare people. Emacs is still the best for CL IMO)

Yes, I can also wear underwear as a hat.

Please, netizen, educate yourself. Common Lisp is written in many places outside of Emacs.

If you want to wear your underwear as a hat, that's your own business. Don't blame Common Lisp, or the array of editors which have nice support for it.

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