Show HN: vim-hackernews

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Post by ryanss » Sat, Feb 07, 2015, 10:54 PM UTC

Show HN: vim-hackernews
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Re: Show HN: vim-hackernews

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 07, 2015, 11:20 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: vim-hackernews

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Post by atmosx » Sat, Feb 07, 2015, 11:25 PM UTC

I didn't play with the HN API but I wonder if it's possible to post comments using the API. I haven't seen any program support user comments, it would be neat to be able to post comments using vim :-)

Re: Show HN: vim-hackernews

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Post by tomphoolery » Sat, Feb 07, 2015, 11:34 PM UTC

atmosx wrote: post #3

I didn't play with the HN API but I wonder if it's possible to post comments using the API. I haven't seen any program support user comments, it would be neat to be able to post comments using vim :-)

Do you think they deliberately don't make that functionality part of the public API just so people won't create bots?

Re: Show HN: vim-hackernews

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Post by alexbardas » Sat, Feb 07, 2015, 11:40 PM UTC

Great and very useful plugin. Good job!

Re: Show HN: vim-hackernews

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Post by ryanss » Sat, Feb 07, 2015, 11:45 PM UTC

atmosx wrote: post #3

I didn't play with the HN API but I wonder if it's possible to post comments using the API. I haven't seen any program support user comments, it would be neat to be able to post comments using vim :-)

Hi, plugin author here.

It's not currently possible to post comments using the official API (or any of the unofficial APIs), but this probably wouldn't be difficult to implement using a standard POST request to the actual Hacker News web server. The harder part would be getting the interface for posting comments inside of Vim user friendly; it would probably be similar to how fugitive.vim lets you enter git commit messages.

I will definitely look into adding this to the plugin if enough interest is shown.

Re: Show HN: vim-hackernews

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Post by xur17 » Sat, Feb 07, 2015, 11:51 PM UTC

tomphoolery wrote: post #4

atmosx wrote: post #3

I didn't play with the HN API but I wonder if it's possible to post comments using the API. I haven't seen any program support user comments, it would be neat to be able to post comments using vim :-)

Do you think they deliberately don't make that functionality part of the public API just so people won't create bots?

I doubt it. It wouldn't take very long at all to write a simple bot to do that with the existing web interface.

Re: Show HN: vim-hackernews

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Post by aceperry » Sat, Feb 07, 2015, 11:51 PM UTC

LOL, so cool. I prefer to read HN in a browser though.

Re: Show HN: vim-hackernews

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Post by Killswitch » Sun, Feb 08, 2015, 12:02 AM UTC

I dig your vim theme, can we get some info on that?

Re: Show HN: vim-hackernews

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Post by ryanss » Sun, Feb 08, 2015, 12:09 AM UTC

Killswitch wrote: post #9

I dig your vim theme, can we get some info on that?

You can checkout my vim configuration here: https://github.com/ryanss/vim

It's just a single, well-commented .vimrc file a little over 100 lines long. The main plugins that add to the visual appearance are the jellybean colorscheme and the fancy status line comes from vim-airline.