Chawan
Dev tools
terminal web browser
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How HN took it
20 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 37 comments about the project. Thread score +0.52.
Execution: 2 for, 4 againstDesign: 5 for, 0 againstDocs: 3 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Pleased that the project is written in Nim.
From 4 comments
This is super cool! Bravo. Awesome to see it written in Nim too. When I do `cha example.com` I can't figure out how to use any of the commands (hjkl, etc). The only keys I've…
isaacvando on HNI think making markdown browser would totally make sense for terminal and would work really well. Come to think about it, you can even, Netscape style even allow editing of the…
desireco42 on HNGotta love Nim
mikeponders on HNAwesome and in Nim!
corv on HN
Objections
Keyboard commands did not work on macOS at first; the maker said it was a miscompilation and fixed it on master.
From 2 comments
It's a bug, thanks for reporting. I've created a ticket: https://todo.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/63 Could you please pull the macos-input branch from https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan…
shiomiru on HNFixed on master. (It turned out to be a miscompilation on part of clang; quite interesting, see the ticket linked above for details.)
shiomiru on HN
Requests
Support for GPM mouse input.
From 1 comment
GPM support?
marcodiego on HN
A roadmap of planned features.
From 1 comment
This is really impressive! Do you a have roadmap for upcoming or planned features?
Hrun0 on HN
Questions
How are images rendered in the terminal?
From 1 comment
How are those images rendered in text UI?
ieee2 on HN
Where are the keyboard shortcuts documented?
From 1 comment
Finally a good tool to view HN in terminal. Thank you! Where can I find the keyboard shortcuts? I can move with vim key binding, but can go back.
greenspam on HN
Alternatives named
Carbonyl, a terminal port of Chromium.
From 1 comment
Thanks, always appreciate ways of not using another blink engine for a brief research side quest! looking forward to test after school ; ) As it hasn't been brought up yet, a…
eMPee584 on HN
w3m and elinks.
From 2 comments
Can be easily built on macOS with just a single 'make'. Cool. And nice to see there's a new elinks alternative.
anta40 on HNThis works great, been playing with it through s-search and it works way better than w3m. =)
zquestz on HN
Glow, a markdown terminal viewer.
From 1 comment
glow is kinda that: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow
ralgozino on HN