dotfiles/modules/elfeed.org

#+TITLE: Elfeed
#+AUTHOR: Christopher James Hayward
#+EMAIL: chris@chrishayward.xyz

#+PROPERTY: header-args:emacs-lisp :tangle elfeed.el :comments org
#+PROPERTY: header-args:shell      :tangle no
#+PROPERTY: header-args            :results silent :eval no-export :comments org

Setup a news feed inside of Emacs using ~elfeed~[fn:1], an Emacs web feeds client.

* Setup

+ Add the feed for my website[fn:2] to make sure the RSS feeds are updating correctly
+ Add some subreddits, mostly about ~linux~, ~emacs~ and ~org-mode~

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(use-package elfeed
  :commands (elfeed elfeed-update)
  :custom (elfeed-feeds (quote
                          (("https://hexdsl.co.uk/rss.xml")
                           ("https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml")
                           ("https://friendo.monster/rss.xml")
                           ("https://chrishayward.xyz/index.xml")
                           ("https://protesilaos.com/codelog.xml")))))
#+end_src

* Shortcuts

Configure ~elfeed~[fn:1] keybindings behind =SPC l=:

+ Open with =l=
+ Update with =u=

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(dotfiles/leader
  "l" '(:ignore t :which-key "Elfeed")
  "ll" '(elfeed :which-key "Open")
  "lu" '(elfeed-update :which-key "Update"))
#+end_src

* Footnotes

[fn:1] https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed

[fn:2] https://chrishayward.xyz/index.xml