I wrote a bit about my recent enjoyment of terminal/text-based interfaces and my setups for aerc (email), newsboat (RSS) and tooi (mastodon):

https://tzovar.as/terminal-user-interfaces-aerc-newsboat-tooi/

#tui #terminal #opensource

Enjoying terminal user interfaces: aerc, newsboat and tooi

Despite it being a good two years since I’ve made vim my only text editor again, I hadn’t really gotten deeper into using more terminal (or text-base) user interface (TUI) for a while. With Gemini I started reading gemtext, but that was mostly it. But then the tooi-client for Mastodon...

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

And yes, the post cites @neil's post from today about using vim 😂

https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/116582592859050433

Neil Brown (@[email protected])

Neil: There's a wealth of amazing Free software out there! I use loads of it. Them: What do you use to write documents? Me: I use vim. I write in Markdown, then convert it. (typst + pandoc) Them: What about presentations? Me: I use vim. I write in Markdown, then convert it. (revealjs) Them: Your website? Blog? Me: I use vim. I write in Markdown, then convert it. (mkdocs / bssg) Them: So what about keeping notes? Me: Oddly enough, I use vim. I write in Markdown... (vimwiki) #FreeSoftware #FOSS #Linux #vim #Markdown

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