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by LtdJorge 16 days ago
I think the title should mention Emacs somewhere. A terminal emulator is different than a terminal emulator for Emacs.
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I agree.

And I would also prefer if the link went to https://github.com/dakra/ghostel instead of the documentation which is not that helpful if you don't know what the project is.

.el = emacslisp file extension
I know this only because I'm an emacs user. Outside that niche .el is an obscure file extension, so, no, it's not that obvious
If you say so. I didn't know that, which supports the suggestion that the title fails to be meaningful.

It's not the same as expecting the reader to know what a terminal is, just in case anyone was thinking of going there next.

> the title fails to be meaningful

It's a weird flex to insist that the titles should always be extremely descriptive. It is already meaningful for the respected audience. Otherwise you can endlessly argue that a florist may not understand what "terminal" and "emulator" are, therefore it should be more descriptive for an occasional florist vising HN. For anyone who doesn't know what .el stands for, they'd click, see it's about Emacs and if not interested - close the tab and forget about it. Takes maybe a second. Not even a smallest imaginable deal - not big at all.