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Hahah, that just really got carried away. Ok, any idea if there is replacement? I found version 1 useful for scrapping web sites. Or should I just stick with 1.0 ?

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hyperpallium25y ago· 2 in thread

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

MaxBarraclough5y ago

I was going to suggest Vim as a counterexample, but sure enough https://github.com/soywod/iris.vim

tingol5y ago

That's a community based plugin, Vim is still focused on text editing and not much else.

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oefrha5y ago· 1 in thread

It can receive email. See my follow-up here with a working implementation:

https://github.com/clopen/xpath-receive-email

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24960548

0df8dkdf5y ago

Hahah, that just really got carried away. Ok, any idea if there is replacement? I found version 1 useful for scrapping web sites. Or should I just stick with 1.0 ?

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