How come Hackernews don't have Emacs reader/client?

#1

Post by Soyuz » Tue, Aug 26, 2014, 12:29 PM UTC

I use Emacs alot and just got hooked to this Hackernews website. I searched over the internet for a way to interact with HN inside Emacs and found no good way but this one:

https://github.com/clarete/hackernews.el

which is very bad and opens articles in default browser or embedded lynx browser inside Emacs.

The question is: How Emacs guys interacts with Hackernews?

Regards, Soyuz

Re: How come Hackernews don't have Emacs reader/client?

#2

Post by valarauca1 » Tue, Aug 26, 2014, 12:40 PM UTC

Because people who get work done don't read HN in their code editor :P

Re: How come Hackernews don't have Emacs reader/client?

#3

Post by frou_dh » Tue, Aug 26, 2014, 12:42 PM UTC

'cos you haven't made it yet

Re: How come Hackernews don't have Emacs reader/client?

#4

Post by stevekemp » Tue, Aug 26, 2014, 3:36 PM UTC

> which is very bad and opens articles in default browser or embedded lynx browser inside Emacs.

The readme implies you can use `t` to open inside emacs. Did that not work?

Re: How come Hackernews don't have Emacs reader/client?

#5

Post by Soyuz » Tue, Aug 26, 2014, 6:06 PM UTC

stevekemp wrote: post #4

> which is very bad and opens articles in default browser or embedded lynx browser inside Emacs. The readme implies you can use `t` to open inside emacs. Did that not work?

the `t` opens the article in the embedded lynx browser. I thought there's a complete client for HN to brwose and interact/comment.

Re: How come Hackernews don't have Emacs reader/client?

#6

Post by Soyuz » Tue, Aug 26, 2014, 6:07 PM UTC

I guess I will try to write a client and publish it on Github

Re: How come Hackernews don't have Emacs reader/client?

#7

Post by SamReidHughes » Thu, Aug 28, 2014, 3:26 AM UTC

It does. But you can't have it.