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Okay, currently I’m using Snownews as my main newsreader for RSS feeds. Yes, RSS, not Atom because Snownews is one of the rare feedreaders that does not support Atom feeds.

Although people keep saying that this is no problem because there is a cool extension named atom2rss I have to ask myself a question:

This extension exists for quite a while, why don’t they simply integrate support for Atom Feeds?

Besides that, I tried using this extension, which is in fact a filter based on xsltproc (...) which still fails. I know most people might argue that this is Open Source Software, which is of course right, but that doesn’t mean I’ve got the time to finish every piece of incomplete, non-functioning software I come across.

This will probably lead most people to something like “you don’t have to use it, do you?”. And that’s right, I’m using it because it’s the only textbased feedreader for linux I know that has the following features:

• VIM Keybindings (or configurable keybindings)
• Category Support
• and as mentioned, is no X11 application

But I’m frustrated by the missing atom support, and it obviously often misinterpretes the date in a feed.

I don’t want a discussion wether or not this critique is appropriate, or is based on some bugged version, my question is:

Can anyone suggest a textbased feedreader with the above features that supports Atom AND RSS?

I tried raggle, canto and nrss, but they didn’t not satisfy me, so I’m still using snownews for rss, and canto for atom – which sucks.

Edit: Using canto now, which is now almost perfect for my needs.