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Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by BoingBoomTschak »

treeshateorcs wrote: post #90
BoingBoomTschak wrote: post #73

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As someone who used Qute for a long time: * Python is much slower than SBCL (yes, even if rendering is done by Blink); including the lack of threading * Bookmarks are pure crap, they don't have tags nor directories to sort them better * Less hackable (e.g. something that should be possible in Nyxt: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/3933 ) * Massive gaps: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issu…

you can redirect in QB. this is how i do it (from my config): def redirect(info: interceptor.Request): if info.request_url.host() == "en.m.wikipedia.org": new_url = QUrl(info.request_url) new_url.setHost("en.wikipedia.org") try: info.redirect(new_url) except interceptors.RedirectFailedException: pass

Cool, thanks for the tip!

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by tsukurimashou »

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…

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

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by cropcirclbureau »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #82
Borg3 wrote: post #75

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Thats interesting. Im using GUI Windows OS, but im very heavy keyboard user, utilizing shortcuts and alt+tab for windows switching. I barely even use start or desktop to start most common apps I use. I wrote myself QuickRun tool that is activated by Win+Q, and I type what I want to run. Usually its just 2-3 first letters of alias name, like bash and autocompletion kicks in. Mouse is used mostly to position windows so…

Do you use multiple desktops? Windows seems terrible at positioning windows, I can't work out how to tell a window to move to the next desktop, say, or just start on a particular desktop (nevermind start at a particular position). Instead it takes a lot of mouse work just to setup after a boot/reboot. Do you have a solution? I'm stuck with native solutions, otherwise I gather this can be fixed with AHK. I'm intereste…

I'm currently using this[0] AutoHotkey script library for such purposes.

[0]: https://github.com/FuPeiJiang/VD.ahk

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by wkat4242 »

BoingBoomTschak wrote: post #87
wkat4242 wrote: post #86

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Nyxt does have ublock origin? It would be a must have for me too.

Not yet, but Nyxt 4 is supposed to support WebExtensions.

Nice!! Then I can also use my password manager and more. Will deffo give it a try then. I hope it'll come soon.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by forgotpwd16 »

jolmg wrote: post #50
OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #30

> Instantly switch between your tabs [...] Easily find relevant tabs with a fuzzy search I personally use virtual desktops for organizing windows of tabs, but if I was one of the masochists who had 100+ open tabs, I would be moving to this immediately

As one such masochist, I hesitate because the tabs aren't tabs. I'm not saying there should be tabs, but this is different. I tend to see a page and open interesting links in new tabs, so the tabs to the right of the current tab are related to this tab. So, there's a tree-like organization to the tabs, even though they're presented linearly. In this browser, that kind of information seems lost, at least in its stock…

>If I were to make this usable for me, it's probably by automatically keeping record of what buffer I was on when I opened a new one, then making a buffer that presents this information in a modifiable tree.

This is already available in the form you described as Global History Tree. See: https://nyxt-browser.com/article/global-history-tree.org

But this is only a presentation and no management (currently) exists. A 1-1 window/buffer map is (also) an open issue.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by llm_trw »

emptysongglass wrote: post #46
llm_trw wrote: post #41

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Like always it's a second class citizen. I spend a stupid 6 months trying to use emacs like vim. Emacs isn't a text editor. If you need to edit text as a rectangle of characters then you can drop in evil mode. Expecting to use emacs control characters from evil mode it a bit like using Kanji to write English.

Evil (VIM emulation mode in Emacs) does not in any way behave like a second-class citizen. I use evil every single day and it's fantastic. Emacs is a text editor, yes, among other things. If anyone is reading this who hasn't tried Emacs, don't let takes like this spoil you giving Emacs a try. Doom Emacs is a fantastic experience to get started but there are more minimal starter kits that give you just evil-mode to st…

I literally said you can use evil mode to edit text.

But trying to use vim inspired motion and editing in other modes is a terrible idea. Just learn how Emacs does it and stop thinking of everything as text. There is usually deeper semantic meaning behind the syntax that an Emacs mode will let you edit directly.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by ucosty »

wkat4242 wrote: post #83
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. 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?

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by goodpoint »

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…

Keyboard is not only faster, but requires less attention.
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