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Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by belden »

bigfishrunning wrote: post #23
benchly wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We were taught in grade school that the vowels were "A, E, I, O, U....and sometimes Y" without any real explanation. I count that as our first lesson about the convoluted complexities of the English language.

Y is used as a vowel when it's between two consonants, and a consonant when it's not. A word like "Synchronize" uses y as a vowel, but a word like "Yellow" uses it as a consonant. Honestly, it's more vowel-like then consonant-like in every case I can think of, so maybe that rule is kind of weak, and it should be counted as a vowel all of the time...

I'm not sure that's the (sole) rule for "Y as vowel". It acts as a vowel in "fly", "spy", and a few other words. And it seems pretty darn dipthong-like when clustered among vowels, eg "voyeur", "vying".

The word "eye" is an interesting one. It seems to be only vowels, based on pronunciation.

Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by OhMeadhbh »

sigh. electron. sigh.

it would be cool to do something like this, but for the terminal.

and... yes... this is still pretty cool. When I get a machine that doesn't seize up when electron apps launch, I want to give it a try.

Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by orbisvicis »

SoftTalker wrote: post #30
benchly wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We were taught in grade school that the vowels were "A, E, I, O, U....and sometimes Y" without any real explanation. I count that as our first lesson about the convoluted complexities of the English language.

We learned "A, E, I, O, U....and sometimes Y and W” but I can’t recall any examples of W as a vowel.

Perhaps "ewe", but then isn't the "y" in "you" a consonant?

Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by dingl3berry »

i played with nyxt for about a month

what makes me go back to normal browser is the search feature

nyxt search results are in modal which takes half bottom part of screen

the upper part of screen is the site text

so it's hard to get whole screen view of what o'm searching because half of real estate is taken by search modal

i prefer the / to search, n to next search with full screen

even firefox default ctrl f / g is also okay, because ot shows the whole page

Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by yashasolutions »

Love nyxt - I am just waiting for when I will be able to use sites like youtube with it (or other common site just not compatible yet with the web engine.) They have a road map to move to Blink/Chromium which would make the site compatible with today's modern web.

Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by v9v »

OhMeadhbh wrote: post #32

sigh. electron. sigh. it would be cool to do something like this, but for the terminal. and... yes... this is still pretty cool. When I get a machine that doesn't seize up when electron apps launch, I want to give it a try.

I normally dislike electron use for desktop applications but in this case it's a web browser so I don't see the problem. If you want an Emacslike text-based browser, maybe run emacs -nw and use eww?

Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by seanw444 »

smartmic wrote: post #13
groceryheist wrote: post #2

This is so cool! I'm someone for whom emacs has steadily expanded its role in my computing life, but who will never adopt a text-based browser as a daily driver. Looking forward to the stable 4.0 release when I'll be prepared to use Nyxt and hope it can replace Firefox / Chromium as much as possible for me.

I also tried Nyxt, but I never stuck with it. I believe there are different UI contexts depending on the goal. For example, browsing the web is a different task and experience than editing text. That's why it comes naturally to me to use a mouse- and keyboard-driven application, Firefox in my case, for browsing and Emacs for anything text-related. In other words, using the purely text-driven Emacs interface to browse…

I'm in the same boat. Gave Nyxt a good try (as an ardent Emacs user), but I came to the same conclusion that it felt unnatural. Maybe I'll give it another go. Another big downside was the lack of extensions like uBlock Origin, Dark Reader, SponsorBlock, etc.

Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by seanw444 »

skeezyboy wrote: post #21
benchly wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We were taught in grade school that the vowels were "A, E, I, O, U....and sometimes Y" without any real explanation. I count that as our first lesson about the convoluted complexities of the English language.

>I count that as our first lesson about the convoluted complexities of the English language. I dare say its made up as it goes along

The first rule of English is that the rules aren't really rules because they are broken all the time. Makes sense when you consider English is just an amalgamation of Scandinavian, Germanic, French, Latin, etc words and rules. Hard to have rules when you mix a half dozen completely different rulesets into one.
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