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lexoj

Very good feature request, will definitely implement next :)

(So for now, yes, press q to quit and run it again)

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When launching it, the user can just wrap it in 'while true ; do .... ; done' and hey presto, 'q' is the refesh key.

That's pretty clever and works quite nicely (i just tried)!

I love simple solutions because my default settiing is usually to build out the hardest thing possible, lol

Thanks, I've been looking for something like this for a while!

Hope you don't mind a few additional suggestions/feature requests!

- Single key scroll up/down a page of text (can work around it on my laptop keyboard with fn-down but would prefer not to have to use two hands).

- Maybe customizable key bindings? (i.e, I'm used to hitting space to scroll down a page of text, and don't need to open the story in a browser so often)

- Key binding to toggle "best", or even better, filters to view only the top N stories (I use this[1] site a lot for that).

[1] https://hckrnews.com/

Thanks for the pretty good ideas. What already works is also the combination CTRL+F (forward) and CTRL+B(backward) which is provided by the underlying library (tview) and pretty standard vim keymap for that action.

But yeah keymaps should become configurable eventually.

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