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I've become a big fan of ncurses software over the years without really realising. Newsbeuter, irssi, cmus/mocp, vim, mutt. It's the resource efficiency and spe

by luxpir 11y ago

I've become a big fan of ncurses software over the years without really realising. Newsbeuter, irssi, cmus/mocp, vim, mutt. It's the resource efficiency and speed of use that make the difference with their shiny UI counterparts. That and still having a GUI, albeit a minimum viable GUI. It has inspired me more than once to pick up K&R's C and have a stab at a tool of my own that I'd love to have - but it's way down on the current list of priorities. ...Now wondering why the question - are you working on something? EDIT: Forgot a special mention for Finch (pidgin client), which along with the others runs nicely on Tmux (another forgotten mention) on a perma-on server. Rpi2 in my case.

hultner 11y ago
I'm using ncmpcpp with MPD for music but have experience some problems, the software feels a bit unstable and tends to slow down a lot, eventually causing segfault every few weeks. How's cmus/mocp here, can you use them with MPD/Spotify?
- luxpir 11y ago
  afaik mocp is it's own daemonized process, so you can close the client and the music keeps on playing; cmus is a standalone client that just reads from the filesystem and URLs and does not daemonize. cmus unfortunately skips and segfaults at times on the latest Debian packaged version, which is of course a few versions back (2.5.0 vs 2.7.0 iirc) and so I'm relying on mocp much more now. To answer your question more directly, again afaik, mocp is not accessible over MPD (separate daemon altogether) and does not play nicely with Spotify, but I'm not a user, so wouldn't know. Neither is mocp accessible over the network (afaik!).
_ak 11y ago
newsbeuter author here. If you want to develop your own text terminal tools, I can really recommend STFL: http://www.clifford.at/stfl/ http://www.clifford.at/stfl/ Without it, I would have probably been driven crazy when I attempted to put together a UI. It helped me get from an idea to a working prototype really quickly. In the case of newsbeuter, like 2 days.
- luxpir 11y ago
  Consider me suitably humbled. Thanks for a great (the best?) RSS reader. Much appreciation and thanks for the pointer! My own project would involve segmenting common office doc formats for translation, saving translations to translation memory (in standard TMX format), attempting to match new segments with pre-translated and perhaps later integrate some project co-working/server functionality. All a little daunting, so all help, such as your pointer, is very welcome!

by luxpir 11y ago

hultner 11y ago

I'm using ncmpcpp with MPD for music but have experience some problems, the software feels a bit unstable and tends to slow down a lot, eventually causing segfault every few weeks. How's cmus/mocp here, can you use them with MPD/Spotify?

luxpir 11y ago
afaik mocp is it's own daemonized process, so you can close the client and the music keeps on playing; cmus is a standalone client that just reads from the filesystem and URLs and does not daemonize. cmus unfortunately skips and segfaults at times on the latest Debian packaged version, which is of course a few versions back (2.5.0 vs 2.7.0 iirc) and so I'm relying on mocp much more now. To answer your question more directly, again afaik, mocp is not accessible over MPD (separate daemon altogether) and does not play nicely with Spotify, but I'm not a user, so wouldn't know. Neither is mocp accessible over the network (afaik!).

_ak 11y ago

newsbeuter author here. If you want to develop your own text terminal tools, I can really recommend STFL: http://www.clifford.at/stfl/ http://www.clifford.at/stfl/ Without it, I would have probably been driven crazy when I attempted to put together a UI. It helped me get from an idea to a working prototype really quickly. In the case of newsbeuter, like 2 days.

luxpir 11y ago
Consider me suitably humbled. Thanks for a great (the best?) RSS reader. Much appreciation and thanks for the pointer! My own project would involve segmenting common office doc formats for translation, saving translations to translation memory (in standard TMX format), attempting to match new segments with pre-translated and perhaps later integrate some project co-working/server functionality. All a little daunting, so all help, such as your pointer, is very welcome!