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App launchers with interactive extensions like Alfred & Raycast? (lemmy.ml)

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I did some searching and many users recommend Rofi but looking at man rofi-script it seems to just be a list picker. You pick something from the a list and only one thing runs. On Alfred and Raycast you can have interactive extensions which are essentially keyboard navigable UIs.

One example looking at the Alfred workflow gallery is Reddit Browser, where you select a subreddit from a list and then it shows of lists of posts, you can press cmd enter to go back & select another subreddit.
Another one lets you ask questions for chatgpt and shows answers right in the launcher (I'm not necessarily looking for AI extensions).
This Raycast extension lets you search and create Notion pages.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

This almost certainly doesn't help you, but I do this kind of interactive-computing-in-a-consistent-interface with Emacs.

Emacs has modes (think, extensions) to do all those things and more.

It can also be a global application (/arbitrary function) launcher as demonstrated in this post.

The only problem is you have to give Emacs your heart, or it won't work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I've done lots of searching and Reddit comments about what makes Emacs so appealing. I think Emacs users like the specific ecosystem and things it offers and they put in the work to tailor it for them. Consistently is one thing I hear. Tell me ur thoughts.

I don't find anything appealing about it over Neovim + TUIs and keyboard navigation in GUI apps, including hints: https://github.com/AlfredoSequeida/hints.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

emacs is truly magical. it's also one of those things that you don't know until you know. there is no equivalent

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