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Hi, plugin author here. It's not currently possible to post comments using the official API (or any of the unofficial APIs), but this probably wouldn't be diff

by ryanss 12y ago

Hi, plugin author here. It's not currently possible to post comments using the official API (or any of the unofficial APIs), but this probably wouldn't be difficult to implement using a standard POST request to the actual Hacker News web server. The harder part would be getting the interface for posting comments inside of Vim user friendly; it would probably be similar to how fugitive.vim lets you enter git commit messages. I will definitely look into adding this to the plugin if enough interest is shown.

davis 12y ago
That'd be awesome. Opening up a scratch buffer and then using that for the contents of the comment in the POST would work pretty well. I dig it.
habosa 12y ago
I implemented ajax comment posting for the HNES Chrome Extension, which is open source. It's a dirty hack but it works. Check out the source: https://github.com/etcet/hnes https://github.com/etcet/hnes