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eilmeldung

A terminal UI RSS reader based on the news-flash library.

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Overview

A terminal UI RSS reader based on the news-flash library.

eilmeldung is a TUI RSS reader based on the awesome news-flash library.

From the maintainer

Origin story

I wanted a modern, fast TUI RSS reader which supports many different RSS providers. (And TBH I wanted a feasible project to learn rust.)

First workflow

- Start and choose a provider or local RSS - add some feeds, e.g., via searching on https://www.rsslookup.com/ - press `cf` to add some feeds and then press `s` to sync them - navigate via vim-keybindings, press `l` and select articles - press `z` to read the article in "zen" mode without distractions

Design choice

- default sane vim-keybindings which are completely customizable - vim-like command mode - modern looking - powerful query language and bulk operations (e.g., `:read older:"1 day" title:linux` marks all articles older than one day with title containing linux as read)

Roadmap

Improving usability, documentation and fixing bugs. On roadmap are quality of life improvements like "undo".

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Latest Release

Release 1.8.1
Released: Sep 2, 2026

1.8.1 - 2026-09-02

  • bugfixes
    • eilmeldung does not output mouse dis-/enable code anymore when starting in CLI mode (thanks @Crandle for reporting)
    • statically import (copy) base16-schemes from tinted-theming (MIT license) instead of importing as a submodule

Release notes from 1.8.0

This release comes with two new features: your configuration file is now auto-reloaded while eilmeldung is running (see below) and...

  • ...🎨🎨🎨 themes for everyone! 🎨🎨🎨
    • eilmeldung now supports Base16 Themes
    • all the Base16 themes Tinted Theming Project are directly available without any further configuration!
    • want to try it out? Press : and enter theme, a space and then press Tab to cycle through all available themes:
      <img width="640" height="442" alt="eilmeldung-themes" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9051ad9d-e5de-42db-9609-0e7cfdac9017" />
      Press enter to choose a theme.
    • found a nice theme? set the configuration option theme.base16_theme = "name-of-theme" to use the theme
    • of course, you can also import custom themes and fine-tune everthing (see Theme Configuration)
    • and for you power-users out there, define key mappings for quickly changing themes:
    [input_config.mappings]
"6" = ["theme catppuccin-frappe"]
"7" = ["theme catppuccin-latte"]
"8" = ["theme catppuccin-macchiato"]
"9" = ["theme catppuccin-mocha"]
  • eilmeldung now auto-reloads the configuration file when it has changed!
    • use this to tweak your configuration!
    • you can deactivate this behavior by setting auto_reload_config to false
    • to manually reload the configuration run the command reloadconfig (press :reloadconfig and then enter) or press Ctrl-r (which simply maps to reloadconfig)
  • refactoring for better maintainability of eilmeldung
  • quality of life: no error message anymore if the thumbnail couldn't be downloaded
  • bugfixes
    • when in distraction-free (zen) mode, mouse clicks are now handled correctly (thanks to @cornservant)
    • handling of redrawing and clearing the terminal is now more reliable (implemented debouncing)

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