[GH-ISSUE #51] Include useful font-highlighting similar to circumflex #14

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opened 2026-03-14 12:23:35 +03:00 by kerem · 3 comments

kerem commented

2026-03-14 12:23:35 +03:00

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Originally created by @jtrv on GitHub (Dec 13, 2021).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/aome510/hackernews-TUI/issues/51

This app is great however the one place I feel like it could be a bit better is highlighting. If hn-tui had highlighting to help with human-parsing and making things a little easier on the eyes, or making certain pieces of information more easily apparent or navigable, it would be perfect! This is a feature request for additional highlighting and labeling in the ways that circumflex provides it.

to list out all the different text-highlighting:

Categories:

highlight headlines with Ask HN, Tell HN, Show HN and Launch HN

Comments:

colored comment depth indicators
indent, italicize and dim quotes
highlight code snippets
highlight @username mentions
color reference numbers such as [0] [1] [2] ...

Originally created by @jtrv on GitHub (Dec 13, 2021). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/aome510/hackernews-TUI/issues/51 This app is great however the one place I feel like it could be a bit better is highlighting. If hn-tui had highlighting to help with human-parsing and making things a little easier on the eyes, or making certain pieces of information more easily apparent or navigable, it would be perfect! This is a feature request for additional highlighting and labeling in the ways that [circumflex provides it.](https://github.com/bensadeh/circumflex#comment-section) to list out all the different text-highlighting: Categories: - [x] highlight headlines with `Ask HN`, `Tell HN`, `Show HN` and `Launch HN` Comments: - [x] colored comment depth indicators - [x] indent, italicize and dim quotes - [x] highlight `code snippets` - [ ] highlight @username mentions - [ ] color reference numbers such as [0] [1] [2] ...

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2026-03-14 12:23:51 +03:00

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@aome510 commented on GitHub (Dec 13, 2021):

Hi @JacobTravers. Thank you for the ideas. Definitely will try those.

Also circumflex looks really great. Thanks again for the great reference 😄

@aome510 commented on GitHub (Dec 13, 2021): Hi @JacobTravers. Thank you for the ideas. Definitely will try those. Also [circumflex](https://github.com/bensadeh/circumflex) looks really great. Thanks again for the great reference 😄

kerem commented

2026-03-14 12:23:56 +03:00

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@bensadeh commented on GitHub (Dec 14, 2021):

Thanks for the mention, @JacobTravers & @aome510 😊,

The highlighting in clx is a mix between simple search + replace of certain keywords, as well as some regular expressions for more complicated patterns. I have gathered most of them here, maybe it can help you for inspiration/implementation of similar features.

(By the way, hackernews-TUI is really impressive, glad to see more people interested in the niche of HN readers in the Terminal!)

@bensadeh commented on GitHub (Dec 14, 2021): Thanks for the mention, @JacobTravers & @aome510 😊, The highlighting in `clx` is a mix between simple search + replace of certain keywords, as well as some regular expressions for more complicated patterns. I have gathered most of them [here](https://github.com/bensadeh/circumflex/blob/main/syntax/syntax.go), maybe it can help you for inspiration/implementation of similar features. (By the way, `hackernews-TUI` is really impressive, glad to see more people interested in the niche of HN readers in the Terminal!)

kerem commented

2026-03-14 12:24:01 +03:00

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@aome510 commented on GitHub (Dec 17, 2021):

@JacobTravers FYI, I have implemented most of the font highlight functionalities for StoryView and CommentView along with a better looking UI.

You can check them out with the latest version of the main branch. Any feedbacks are highly appreciated!
There are still a few big things I want to do before releasing new versions (documentation, highlight for ArticleView, etc).

Also, I decided not to implement highlighting for user mention and reference numbers as they are quite subject to false positives.

@aome510 commented on GitHub (Dec 17, 2021): @JacobTravers FYI, I have implemented most of the font highlight functionalities for `StoryView` and `CommentView` along with a better looking UI. You can check them out with the latest version of the `main` branch. Any feedbacks are highly appreciated! There are still a few big things I want to do before releasing new versions (documentation, highlight for `ArticleView`, etc). Also, I decided not to implement highlighting for user mention and reference numbers as they are quite subject to false positives.

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2026-03-14 12:29:03 +03:00

[PR #14] [MERGED] [#9] add search view #41