To those that have tried the browser or investigated the project more, what is the utility of this browser over, say, Firefox with a vim plugin[1] that lets me also navigate with a keyboard? I am all for new browsers and believe that hobby projects don't need a reason, but I am curious what distinguishes this over something that can be achieved with plugins in a more stable platform.
Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser
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#42sigh. 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?
Yeah. That's pretty much what I do. I bounce between EWW, Lynx and Firefox. But EWW's not without it's quirks. And sometimes I like seeing pictures. I guess I should just add sixel support to EWW.
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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.
Aye.
Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Yeah. That's pretty much what I do. I bounce between EWW, Lynx and Firefox. But EWW's not without it's quirks. And sometimes I like seeing pictures. I guess I should just add sixel support to EWW.
It would be simpler to switch to GUI Emacs, where EWW can natively show pictures.
Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser
#46sree.sankar@outlook.com