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README.md

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)
No-nonsense keyboard navigation
Supports Gopher searches, text and menu pages, and downloads
Save your favorite Gopher sites with bookmarks
Opt-in history tracking
Secure Gopher support (TLS)
Tor support

usage

    phetch [options]       Launch phetch in interactive mode
    phetch [options] url   Open Gopher URL in interactive mode

Options:

    -s, --tls              Try to open Gopher URLs securely w/ TLS
    -o, --tor              Use local Tor proxy to open all pages
    -S, -O                 Disable TLS or Tor
                            
    -r, --raw              Print raw Gopher response only
    -p, --print            Print rendered Gopher response only
    -l, --local            Connect to 127.0.0.1:7070

    -c, --config FILE      Use instead of ~/.config/phetch/phetch.conf
    -C, --no-config        Don't use any config file            
    
    -h, --help             Show this screen
    -v, --version          Show phetch version

Command line options always override options set in phetch.conf.

Once you've launched phetch, use `ctrl-h` to view the on-line help.

installation

If you already have a Gopher client, download phetch here:

gopher://phkt.io/1/phetch/latest

On macOS you can install with Homebrew:

brew install xvxx/code/phetch

Binaries for Linux, Raspberry Pi, and Mac are available at https://github.com/xvxx/phetch/releases:

Just unzip/untar the phetch program into your $PATH and get going!

You can also build and install from source if you have cargo, make, and the other dependencies described in the next section:

git clone https://github.com/xvxx/phetch
cd phetch
env PREFIX=/usr/local make install

development

To build with TLS support on Linux, you need openssl and pkg-config:

sudo apt install -y pkg-config libssl-dev

Regular development uses cargo:

cargo run -- <gopher-url>

Pro-tip: Run a local gopher server (like phd) on 127.0.0.1:7070 and start phetch with -l or --local to quickly connect to it.

phetch builds with TLS and Tor support by default. To disable these features, or to enable only one of them, use the --no-default-features flag:

cargo build --no-default-features

You can check whether TLS is enabled by visiting the About page:

cargo run --no-default-features -- gopher://phetch/about

To enable just TLS support, or just Tor support, use --features:

cargo run --no-default-features --features tor -- gopher://phetch/about

screenies


DOS Archive	Floodgap

todo

catch SIGWINCH

bugs

ctrl-c while telneting kills phetch
unknown keypress: [ during status messages
new status doesn't replace old (download complete -> copy url)

v1.0

GIF screencast

future features

track binary size per release
text views are menus when URLs are present (one per line max)
Find Text in Text views
fuzzy find incremental search
persistent history
bookmarks: toggle instead of just prepending to the file
bookmarks: save the title of the current page