On Thursday, Mike Zamansky published a video on some tweaks he made to Elfeed. As soon as I wrote and published a post about it, I found two more posts on hacking Elfeed to make it better fit the tweaker’s workflow. The first, by Álvaro Ramírez, was directly inspired by Zamansky’s post and shows a way of opening an Elfeed entry in a browser without losing focus. That’s convenient if you like to skim through the entries and open the ones you find interesting in a browser tab for later reading.
As Zamansky demonstrates in his video, Elfeed does allow you to open multiple entries but you lose focus to the browser. Ramírez’s method keeps you in Elfeed until you’re ready to change to the browser and read all the interesting articles.
The second post, by Karthins, considers several hacks to adjust Elfeed to his liking. These include:
- Split pane for index and current entry
- Navigating the Elfeed database with the space bar
- Easier tagging
- Using EWW on a per entry basis to display posts
If you use Elfeed—and if you’re an Emacs user, you should be—be sure to take a look at these two posts. You may or may not like the changes they implement but even if you don’t, they show nice examples of how easy it is to adjust Elfeed to your needs.