Newsletter #2

By Pedro Delfino

Intro

Hello hackers!

Welcome to our third ¹ newsletter :)

New features we've worked on

• Speeding up network queries;
• Speeding up set-url;
• Nyxt now prompts for confirmation before deleting a buffer that has edited contents;
• The user input suggestion should now be instantaneously updated;
• New common text editing bindings (select-all, undo, redo, cut, etc.);
• We now display source code in describe-function whenever possible;
• Permission requests are now handled (such as geolocalization access);
• reduce-tracking-mode has new options;
• The Lisp REPL now highlights the input, displays the input package;
• New m l vi binding to list-bookmarks;

New articles

• No more filling out repetitive forms in Nyxt!
• How can I make Emacs my web browser?
• Demeter with Montezuma Search!
• Emacs with Nyxt: extend your editor with the power of a Lisp browser

Announcements

• Release of Nyxt 2.2.3
• Release of Nyxt 2.2.2

Interesting reads

• Have you ever heard about a purely functional web browser built with Haskell? It does seem futuristic, right? Well, check out the WWWBrowse, implemented in 1994!

• Our second suggestion is not an article. It is actually a post from a Game Dev about bug reports coming from the small but powerfull linux users of his game. We couldn't agree more: " […] the Linux community is exceptionally well trained in reporting bugs. That is just the open-source way." Fortunately, we also receive stellar bug reports (thank you, Nyxt & Linux users!)

• As the metaverse becomes the new corporate-tech-panacea-word, this HN thread caught our attention. The text is interesting and the most upvoted comment, from @dandotway, is a great heresy.

Cheers!

Nyxt team

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1. Despite the number #2 in the title, this is the third episode since we started counting from 0. Let's not be normal people :D↩