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---
title: "Moving My RSS Reading to Emacs With Elfeed"
category: emacs
abstract: It's even better now than it newsboat.
date: 2023-05-06T19:44:40+02:00
year: 2023
draft: false
tags:
- Emacs
- elfeed
- RSS
- newsboat
---
Since Emacs became my shell of choice[^1], I am abandoning more and more dedicated applications in favor of different packages. As it turns out, Emacs packages are very feature rich. This time: I moved my RSS reading from newsboat[^2] to elfeed[^3].
Elfeed has very simple keybindings:
- g will refresh the items list
- G will refresh the items list and fetch new items
- r will mark currently selected item is read (remove unread tag)[^4]
- b will open item in the browser
One huge upside of elfeed compared to newsboat is image support. Emacs is a GUI application, so all images are present in their glory!
{{<img-center "elfeed-details.png" "Images!">}}
My setup is near stock. I have a few dozen feeds that are auto-tagged. Three essential tags are "important", "news", and "company". I want to read each "important", then I want to see all normal, and finally I can just skim "news" and "company". Adding auto-tagging is very simple: just define the tag when defining the RSS feed list:
{{<highlight lisp>}}
("https://rubenerd.com/feed/" blog important)
("https://www.pine64.org/feed/" company)
{{</highlight>}}
Now, each new article will be tagged with matching tags. Elfeed allows to define of custom faces that will be applied to items matching tag[^6]:
{{<highlight lisp>}}
(defface important-elfeed-entry
'((t :foreground "#f77"))
"Marks an important Elfeed entry."
:group 'elfeed)
(defface nonimportant-elfeed-entry
'((t :foreground "#C0C0C0"))
"Marks an nonimportant Elfeed entry."
:group 'elfeed)
(push '(important important-elfeed-entry)
elfeed-search-face-alist)
(push '(company nonimportant-elfeed-entry)
elfeed-search-face-alist)
(push '(news nonimportant-elfeed-entry)
elfeed-search-face-alist)
{{</highlight>}}
Now important items will be dark red, while company & news will be dark gray
{{<img-center "elfeed-list.png" "No important things to read at this moment.">}}
Elfeed has a few packages expanding its functionality, but I found the default behavior to be exactly right.
[^1]: [Emacs as a Shell](/2023/emacs-as-a-shell/)
[^2]: [Newsboat homepage](https://newsboat.org/)
[^3]: [Elfeed repository on Github](https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed)
[^4]: The "r" key messes with my muscle memory, as notmuch[^5] uses "ku" for the same action while "r" will start composing a reply.
[^5]: [Posts tagged about notmuch](https://d-s.sh/tags/notmuch)
[^6]: my elisp-fu not good
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