Newsboat is a RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console
Newsboat install
Here's how to change the Newsboats to use vim style key bindings
Create the newsboat config file
Then add the code below to the config file and save
We set the default browser to w3m and then define 2 other external browser which we can invoke with a keyboard shortcut
The macro key is the , comma character which is used together with another key that you define when writing the set browser macro
mpv is set as an external browser so we can open video, audio or youtube links from an rss feed
the keyboard shortcut to open a link with mpv is the , comma character followed the letter m
Firefox is set as an external browser and can be invoked by using the keyboard shortcut , comma character followed by the letter l
Then we change the key bindings to use vim style h,j,k,l for movement
note that pressing the h key on the main window will quit newsboat
And lastly we change the color scheme to solarized dark,
other color scheme are also available
Next we need to create the ~/.newsboat/urls file which will contain a list of the rss feeds we want
Here are rss feeds for the Freebsd forum main page and how to sections,
as well as the Freebsd now youtube channel
Newsboat install
Bash:
# pkg install newsboatHere's how to change the Newsboats to use vim style key bindings
Create the newsboat config file
Bash:
vi ~/.newsboat/configThen add the code below to the config file and save
Code:
# general settings
auto-reload yes
max-items 50
# externel browser
browser "/usr/local/bin/w3m %u"
macro m set browser "/usr/local/bin/mpv %u"; open-in-browser ; set browser "/usr/local/bin/w3m %u"
macro l set browser "/usr/local/bin/firefox %u"; open-in-browser ; set browser "/usr/local/bin/w3m %u"
# unbind keys
unbind-key ENTER
unbind-key j
unbind-key k
unbind-key J
unbind-key K
# bind keys - vim style
bind-key j down
bind-key k up
bind-key l open
bind-key h quit
# solarized
color background default default
color listnormal default default
color listnormal_unread default default
color listfocus black cyan
color listfocus_unread black cyan
color info default black
color article default default
# highlights
highlight article "^(Title):.*$" blue default
highlight article "https?://[^ ]+" red default
highlight article "\\[image\\ [0-9]+\\]" green defaultWe set the default browser to w3m and then define 2 other external browser which we can invoke with a keyboard shortcut
The macro key is the , comma character which is used together with another key that you define when writing the set browser macro
mpv is set as an external browser so we can open video, audio or youtube links from an rss feed
the keyboard shortcut to open a link with mpv is the , comma character followed the letter m
Firefox is set as an external browser and can be invoked by using the keyboard shortcut , comma character followed by the letter l
Then we change the key bindings to use vim style h,j,k,l for movement
note that pressing the h key on the main window will quit newsboat
And lastly we change the color scheme to solarized dark,
other color scheme are also available
Next we need to create the ~/.newsboat/urls file which will contain a list of the rss feeds we want
Bash:
vi ~/.newsboat/urlsHere are rss feeds for the Freebsd forum main page and how to sections,
as well as the Freebsd now youtube channel
Bash:
# freebsd forum
https://forums.freebsd.org/forums/-/index.rss
https://forums.freebsd.org/forums/howtos-and-faqs-moderated.39/index.rss
# freebsd now
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=PLUW3LUwQvegyqk2Iqi-YD7Do-AyD4W0s1