Lagrange changed my opinion on reading text outside a terminal
Gemini got me excited because I wanted to "the web" in my terminal. That's where I wanted all my text.
I tried a couple text based clients first. Some of them I had trouble getting working at all, some of them were just really mid. I'm not going to name names because I don't remember most of them and that's not the point.
I heard lagrange was really good, so I compiled it and started using it to look around gemini-space, planning on using it to find a better text based client.
Turns out I was completely wrong. It it turns out that I actually do want to read prose in a variable width font. It turns out justified paragraphs are really important to me. It turns out I really like the text being slightly different colours on different capsules.
What's really got me though is emoji. Nothing will make me stop reading faster than a markdown file with an emoji on every header and list item. Lagrange does such a good job rendering that in an inoffensive way that it took me embarassingly too long to even notice, but even more shocking was that when I did notice, I *still* liked it.
I even used a graphical text editor recently when I was writing some documentation. I haven't used anything except vim for more than ten years.
Kudos to everyone who has worked on the lagrange ui for changing the way that I interact with plaintext.
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☕️ tenno-seremel · Feb 01 at 10:48:
Monochrome emoji are not as much in your face as the colored ones. Plus Lagrange ones are kinda cute.
I also don't like emoji, but I also agree that monochrome emoji is not as bad as colourful emoji.