quicknews.nvim

A plugin to show a quick popup window of most recent RSS feed items. A nifty tool if you want stay up to date with the most recent news of your choice.

Install

vim.pack.add { "https://github.com/jwayston/quicknews.nvim" }

require("quicknews").setup({
    rss = "https://yle.fi/rss/uutiset/paauutiset",
})

vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>nn", ":QuickNews<CR>", { silent = true })

Default values:

require("quicknews").setup({
    rss = nil,               -- RSS feed url
    height = 10,             -- Window height
    max_items = 10,          -- Max RSS feed items to show
    title = nil,             -- Window title, nil uses RSS feed's channel title
    style = {
        underline = false    -- Force link underline removal
    }
})

Usage

Triggering :QuickNews or require("quicknews").get_news() fetches the RSS feed and presents parsed results in a popup window. Fetching is done by calling curl.

Listed titles are markdown links and can be easily opened with gx for example.

Internal keybindings of the popup window:

• q: close popup
• <CR>: open the link on current line using external app (just a convenience binding for gx)