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This commit introduces a new Aerc.Tick function that should be called to
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The UI goroutine repeatedly refreshes the internal state before drawing a new
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processed for a single frame, and drawing the UI is far slower than refreshing
the internal state. This has been confirmed in my testing (calling Aerc.Tick
only once per frame results in a slower display).

Many synchronization code has been removed. We can now write widgets without
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- widgets/spinner: the spinner value is updated from inside an internal
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README.md

aerc

aerc is a work in progress email client for your terminal.

It is not yet suitable for daily use.

Join the IRC channel: #aerc on irc.freenode.net

Building

aerc depends on:

  • go (compile-time)

  • scdoc (compile-time)

  • libvterm (compile & runtime)

    $ make

Installation

# make install
$ man aerc

Usage

$ mkdir ~/.config/aerc
$ cp config/*.conf ~/.config/aerc/
$ vim ~/.config/aerc/accounts.conf

Fill in your account details and configure the rest to taste, then run aerc.

Contributing

Send patches to ~sircmpwn/aerc@lists.sr.ht.

Bugs & todo here: ~sircmpwn/aerc2