Communick News

this update

• uses dropdown menu widgets everywhere, and
• fully implements comment folding widgets.

the readme is also updated to explain these features.

holler if you run into any bugs.

added lots of stuff in this update, some of which may be a little green still.

• commands to navigate comment trees
  • up to top-level comment
  • prev/next same-level comment
• various commands to selectively fold (hide) comment branches
  • un/fold current comment
  • un/fold current comment + its children
  • un/fold current comment's entire branch
  • un/fold entire buffer
• added more sorting/listing drop-down widgets to make it easier to see what sorting is in effect (and to change sorting by mouse)
• fix tab navigation to (hopefully) all links everywhere
• make default sorting/listing in views better match the web UI
• fix sorting options in user view
• various other fixes

one thing to note is that this release switches the S/s bindings, for consistency.

• implement overview (mixed comments + posts) for user views
• implement unified inbox (mixed replies, mentions, private messages)
• add communities moderated to user view
• add sort/listing widgets to browse communities for nice sorting feedback
• add search current user command
• add search current community command

I thought it might be nice to add drop-down sort/listing widgets to the top of all feed-based views, roughly similar to the web client, but it seems that the emacs widget library doesn't allow placing multiple menu widgets on the same line. :/

EDIT: turns out it's possible, so i'll add them to the main views.

I recently updated lem.el to 0.12.

The release makes encrypted tokens optional for easier use. If you update and find you can't load lem.el, delete ~/.emacs.d/lem.plstore and log in again. If you want your auth tokens to be encrypted, set lem-encrypt-auth-tokens to non-nil. You'll also need to set plstore-encrypt-to to a GPG key of yours.

updated lem.el lemmy client for emacs.

• added an action/response/update display system for direct feedback upon executing an action (feature, save, delete, like, create, edit item).
• added a completing-read system
• added un/block instances, communities, and users functions.
• various other fixes.

did some more hacking on lem.el. 0.8 release includes:

• rich editing of posts/comments
• rainbow bar indentation for comment trees
• tabulated list for communities overview
• fixes to comment trees and many other things.

there's still lots to fix up, but its running pretty well now.

& hm i wonder is there any other overlap btw emacsers + the lemmy codebase? i'm just adding features as i work out how things work, often in an amateur ad-hoc manner...

did a maniac hack on the old lem.el recently, mainly for the 0.19 release. overhauled the logic of all the sorting/listing commands. they should be more rigorous and flexible to update now. various other fixes too. pushed to main, so will hit MELPA soon.

also added unified inbox for replies, mentions, and private messages, and various other minor display improvements.

A client library and UI for Lemmy, has most of the basics in working order now. interested to hear your feedback if you give it a go. other complex UI features like rich post composing and image handling will be ported from mastodon.el.

it is designed to have a clean API layer, so the functions in lem-api.el could be used to create other interfaces.