Nyxt – The Hacker's Browser

I really like the idea of Nyxt, but I had trouble using/scripting it in practice last time I tried (back in June).

IIRC, my issues were:

1) Vim keybindings being somewhat clumsier than using Vimium on Chrome

2) Flatpak being tricky to use (I think this was just my own unfamiliarity)

3) I never figured out if it had emacs-style introspective documentation (e.g. describe-key, describe-function)

4) I couldn't get restore-history-by-name to work (save-history-by-name did work).

My plan was to script Nyxt in order to write my own session manager, by saving/restoring named histories. Then, I could associate them with emacs desktop sessions and JIRA tasks to improve my ability to stop/resume/look back at tasks.

Ultimately, I found that the Session Buddy extension for Chrome was a better fit for my use case (and it stores its session in a sqlite database that was easy to query programmatically).

The other thing that I tried was directly querying Chrome's session files for a list of tabs, but this was unreliable (the file was often out of date and didn't include suspended tabs). Supposedly it's possible to get a correct tab list on MacOS via Applescript.

All of which is to say, Nyxt looks great and I hope it keeps getting better and I encourage others to try it, but the last time that I personally tried it I ended up concluding that Chrome+Vimium+SessionBuddy was a better fit for what I wanted out of my browser.

Nice to read it's written in Common Lisp