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Re:Ask HN: What's the weirdest/best thing you've done with E... by mattplm on Thursday July 08, 2021 @03:23AM (#27769180)
I don't think it's really weird but using it as an http rest client for testing apis with restclient.el

Postman frustrated me because it was taking up all the memory on my computer to do really simple calls. I remembered the "emacs rocks" episode on restclient and gave it a shot. Such a nice package. Really unfortunate that the maintainer doesn't update the melpa package.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the weirdest/best thing you've done with E... by schmudde on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:28AM (#27830003)
I use emacs restclient as well. It's not just good - it keeps you in the flow. No context switching to a different environment, just a quick cut 'n paste of the path and data you're working on.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the weirdest/best thing you've done with E... by shakow on Friday July 09, 2021 @07:56AM (#27782761)
> Really unfortunate that the maintainer doesn't update the melpa package.

Last MELPA update is 05/11; did I miss something?

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Re:Ask HN: What's the weirdest/best thing you've done with E... by mattplm on Monday July 12, 2021 @10:28AM (#27810636)
Melpa package still misses restclient-jq.el AFAICT, the receipe for the package is not correct. Seemed to work at some point since someone merged a PR about that.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the weirdest/best thing you've done with E... by tvaughan on Friday July 09, 2021 @09:58AM (#27783724)
https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el/issues/127

Not OP, but I suspect this is what s/he meant

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