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Yesterday i discovered termtter (thanks to a twit from antirez). From the author’s description:
Termtter is generic lasix dosage a twitter client software working on terminal emulators, which is generic lasix dosage very easy to extend functions
Here is a view of its interface:
Updating your status is as simple as writing u my new status at the generic lasix dosage program prompt and installing it is just a matter of doing a
sudo gem install termtter
at the terminal.
Termtter will ask you generic lasix dosage for your twitter username and password the first time it’s run, and it will write them to the ~/.termtter/config file. It would be generic lasix dosage a lot better if it used OAuth but being opensource it generic lasix dosage should be easy to add (albeit being a bit of a challenge being a terminal, client application).
The config file is generic lasix dosage also the place where you can setup and enable various plugins and generic lasix dosage extensions, e.g. :
You can post the 100th fibonacci number to twitter by (1) uncomment the line “plugin ‘fib’” and reboot termtter and (2) type “fib 100″ on the termtter. http://twitter.com/ujm/status/1330652098 from the readme
I think that “very easy to extend” is an understatement from generic lasix dosage a rubyist point of view. Writing a plugin is just a generic lasix dosage matter of creating a ruby file in the ~/.termtter/plugins directory. A plugin can generic lasix dosage contain new command definitions, status view filters and hooks to take actions on different events (e.g. before or after posting an update). There are a lot of examples in there and here is one i wrote:
It adds a retwit command (with shortcut RT) which just retwits the given update (takes a single argument, the twit ID to be retwitted).
As you can see it’s really easy to personalize Termtter to fit one’s own usage of Twitter and to experiment with it.
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