phetch/README.md

phetch is a terminal client designed to help you quickly navigate the gophersphere: use arrow keys to move around, press a number to jump to a link, or just start typing - phetch is always in incremental search mode when viewing a gopher menu.

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 gopherholes with bookmarks
• opt-in history tracking

usage

phetch                 # Launch and show start page.
phetch <gopher-url>    # Launch and show Gopherhole at URL.
phetch -r <gopher-url> # Print raw Gopher response.
phetch -h              # Show help.
phetch -v              # Show version.

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

installation

Binaries for Linux and Mac are available at https://github.com/dvkt/phetch/releases:

• phetch-linux-arm.tar.gz
• phetch-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
• phetch-macos.zip

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

development

cargo run -- <gopher-url>

gifcast

screenies

todo

• telnet: gopher://bitreich.org/1/lawn/bbs

bugs

• gopher://1436.ninja/1/twit.cgi ("iWritten and performed by Nathaniel" weirdness)

future features

• Toggle bookmarks instead of just appending to the file
• Bookmarks save the title of the current page
• Incremental search in Text views
• Linked gopher and http URLs in Text views
• TLS -- https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2019-03-07-gopher-server-tls.html
• Fuzzy Find incremental search