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 gopherholes with bookmarks
• opt-in history

usage

phetch                           launch and show start page
phetch <gopher-url>              open gopher url
phetch -r, --raw <gopher-url>    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-v0.1.7-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
• phetch-v0.1.7-linux-armv7.tar.gz (RPi)
• phetch-v0.1.7-macos.zip

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

development

cargo run -- <gopher-url>

screenies

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