`phetch` is a terminal client designed to help you quickly navigate
the gophersphere.
## features
- <1MB executable for linux and mac
- technicolor design (based on [GILD](https://github.com/dvkt/gild))
- no-nonsense keyboard navigation
- supports gopher searches, text and menu pages, and downloads
- save your favorite gopherholes with bookmarks
- opt-in history
## usage
phetch launch and show start page
phetch open gopher url
phetch -r, --raw print raw gopher response
phetch -h, --help show this screen
phetch -v, --version show phetch version
once you've launched phetch, use `ctrl-h` to view the on-line help.
## installation
binaries for linux, mac, and raspberry pi are available
at https://github.com/dvkt/phetch/releases:
- [phetch-v0.1.8-linux-x86_64.tar.gz][0]
- [phetch-v0.1.8-linux-armv7.tar.gz (RPi)][1]
- [phetch-v0.1.8-macos.zip][2]
just unzip/untar the `phetch` program into your $PATH and get going!
## development
cargo run --
## screenies
![DOS Archive](./img/dos.png)
![Menu View](./img/menu-view.png)
![Text View](./img/text-view.png)
## todo
- [ ] fork+exec telnet: gopher://bitreich.org/1/lawn/bbs
- [ ] improve render() performance
- [ ] text views are menus when URLs are present (one per line max)
- [ ] Find Text in Text views
- [ ] TLS -- https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2019-03-07-gopher-server-tls.html
- [ ] ~/.config/phetch/phetch.conf
## bugs
- [ ] gopher://1436.ninja/1/twit.cgi ("iWritten and performed by Nathaniel" weirdness)
- [ ] screen flicker in win10 WSL
- [ ] NUM entry and Find entry shouldn't use same input buffer
- [ ] ctrl-z (suspend) doesn't work
## v1.0
- [ ] download new releases over gopher
- [ ] Changelog generation (for gopher and github)
- [ ] GIF screencast
- [ ] man page (small one)
## future features
- [ ] track binary size per release
- [ ] fuzzy find incremental search
- [ ] persistent history
- [ ] bookmarks: toggle instead of just prepending to the file
- [ ] bookmarks: save the title of the current page
[0]: https://github.com/dvkt/phetch/releases/download/v0.1.8/phetch-v0.1.8-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
[1]: https://github.com/dvkt/phetch/releases/download/v0.1.8/phetch-v0.1.8-linux-armv7.tar.gz
[2]: https://github.com/dvkt/phetch/releases/download/v0.1.8/phetch-v0.1.8-macos.zip