[justaj]

I like using 3rd party HN tools and was thinking to try terminal clients.

From the top of my head this is my personal list of minimum requirements such an app would have to support:

1. Text search within all of comments in a thread.

2. Easy command collapse/expand workflow when viewing threads.

Glancing through the doc it seems that this app doesn't (yet) support either of these requirements, is this correct?

[bensadeh]

1. The cool thing about using `less` as the pager is everything you get out of the box, including search. Search from within less with `/`.

2. You can collapse / expand the comment section with h/l or left arrow and right arrow. The limitation to this is that it is not possible to collapse specific threads / replies, only all replies at once.

[justaj]

> 1. The cool thing about using `less` as the pager is everything you get out of the box, including search. Search from within less with `/`.

Sure, but doesn't this assume running `less` in this case only to search specific text strings? So this means if you wanted to apply any other operations, you'd have to exit out of the $PAGER back into the main terminal app?

What if I wanted to combine it with other operations such as collapse / expand comments? Speaking of:

> 2. You can collapse / expand the comment section with h/l or left arrow and right arrow. The limitation to this is that it is not possible to collapse specific threads / replies, only all replies at once.

So an collapse / expand operation is applied to _all_ comments in a thread? Hmm, in that case for me in terms of usability the browser is still superior.