Feedr v0.8.0 ships in-article find for full-text reading in the terminal
The open source TUI RSS reader now pairs full-article extraction with slash-to-search, smart-case matching, and keyboard navigation inside the terminal.
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Why it matters
Terminal-native tools are winning on speed and focus, but they only stick if they remove context switches. Feedr’s full-text plus find-in-article keeps RSS power users in flow.
Maintainer bahdotsh has shipped Feedr v0.8.0, pushing the terminal-first RSS reader beyond skim-and-open workflows toward true in-terminal reading and navigation. The latest tag follows a run of commits that added full-text extraction and now a find-in-article flow so you can stay on the keyboard, in the shell.
What is new
A recent detail-view update brought a real find-in-page to Feedr. In the commit introducing the feature, bahdotsh wrote: "Before this commit '/' in the detail view opened the cross-feed search modal... Let's fix that." Slash now enters an ArticleSearch mode that live-highlights matches as you type, with n and N cycling through results and ESC clearing. Matching is smart-case: case-sensitive when the query includes uppercase, case-insensitive otherwise. Highlights render inline with wrapped text so the page stays readable.
That find flow works across both the feed-provided summary and the extracted body. The same commit notes that you can toggle with Shift+F between the two, and the search query persists across modes. Under the hood, the renderer and scroll logic were tightened so jump-to-match lands exactly where wrapped output puts the match, and caching avoids unnecessary allocations when search is idle. The patch landed alongside 22 new tests covering helpers, state, and event dispatch.
Full-text extraction itself landed earlier in v0.7.0 (as referenced in the same commit), letting Feedr pull the article body into the terminal so you do not have to bounce to a browser for every post. v0.8.0 (version bump commit) rolls up that work and the in-article search into a tagged release.
Why this might stick
Terminal-native readers have always been fast at triage; the harder part is staying in flow once an article gets long. Feedr's combination of Readability-extracted plain text, a summary toggle, and keyboard-first find closes that gap for people who live in tmux and vim. It is small touches like persisting the query across the summary/body toggle, wrapping-aware highlights, and n/N navigation that make this feel like a tool built by someone who actually reads inside a terminal.
Feedr remains a compact community project. The repo shows 117 commits, 241 stars, and 12 forks at publish time, with a GitHub Sponsors page for support. Earlier work included compatibility fixes for terminal quirks, and the current cadence suggests the maintainer is iterating on ergonomics more than adding knobs.
If your workflow is RSS-first and mouse-last, this release is worth a look. Install from the repo, point it at your feeds, and try reading and searching the full text without leaving your shell.