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> Only disadvantage I can tell for HN is lack of comment indentation beyond one level... which might be a deal breaker. HN indentation works with spacer gifs,
by shiomiru 5y ago
> Only disadvantage I can tell for HN is lack of comment indentation beyond one level... which might be a deal breaker.
HN indentation works with spacer gifs, so you'll have to enable inline images for that to work. (Press o and tick YES for the Display inline images option.)
EDIT: also if you're using debian you'll also want to install the w3m-img package. Or change the Inline image display method to img2sixel (and install libsixel) if your terminal supports sixels, or to kitty (and install imagemagick) if you're using kitty.
(If your w3m version supports Inline image display method, that is. It's a relatively new feature.)
- tomxor 5y agoThanks! The option was already enabled but not working, the w3m-img package fixed it... I was only expecting place holders and very surprised to see real images rendered, not sure how it's doing this since i'm using urxvt, which doesn't support images AFAIK... is this layered on top via xorg?
- shiomiru 5y agoYeah on xorg it just draws a window on top of the terminal. It is a hack but one that works pretty well, it also supports framebuffer and supposedly even Windows. In fact many other terminal tools use w3m-img for image display on the terminal. Though both sixel and kitty protocols are nicer (kitty being as close to ideal as it gets), they're unfortunately not as widely supported.
- culi 5y ago> HN indentation works with spacer gifs ... holy shit this website is a living fossil
- krapp 5y agoIt's the coelacanth of web design.