phetch is a terminal gopher 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

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.

installation

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

• MacOS: https://github.com/dvkt/phetch/releases/download/v0.1.0/phetch-macos.zip
• Linux x86_64: https://github.com/dvkt/phetch/releases/download/v0.1.0/phetch-linux-x86-64.tar.gz
• Linux ARM: https://github.com/dvkt/phetch/releases/download/v0.1.0/phetch-linux-arm.tar.gz

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

development

cargo run -- <gopher-url>

screenies

todo

• confirm() helper (downloads, other questions)
• tests for scrolling gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/1/~cardboard64/
• telnet
• ipv6
• cancel download
• flesh out help
• new screenshots
• little GIF screencast in README

bugs

• stop 'page down' at a reasonable place
• stop 'down arrow' at a reasonable place
• open failure mode for irc links
• open for irc links
• gopher lawn is truncated
• gopher://1436.ninja/1/twit.cgi ("iWritten and performed by Nathaniel" weirdness)

future features

• TLS https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2019-03-07-gopher-server-tls.html
• Fuzzy Find incremental search