## v1.2.1-dev - Fix `NO_COLOR` support. - The `d` keyboard shortcut will now download the current page to disk. ## v1.2.0 phetch is all about fun colors, but your options have always been limited. You could turn off colors via `NO_COLOR` env variable or you could leave them on. That's it. Well, not anymore. As of `v1.2`, phetch now supports themes, in addition to a few new config options. ### Config Options The new config options in this release, for your convenience, are as follows: - `scroll` controls how many lines to jump by when paging up/down. If set to 0 (the new default), you'll jump by an entire screen. - `autoplay` controls whether you'll be prompted to play media files or not. By default it's false, but one might find it handy to set to `true` if hosting, say, a Gopher-powered music server. ### Keyboard Shortcuts Just one, but it's a doozy - you can now reload the current URL by pressing `R` (`shift+r`). Super handy when developing your own Gopherhole! ### Themes As mentioned, themes are simple files with roughly the same format as `phetch.conf`: $ cat ~/.config/phetch/default.theme # Color Scheme ## UI ui.cursor white bold ui.number magenta ui.menu yellow ui.text white ## Items item.text cyan item.menu blue item.error red item.search white item.telnet grey item.external green item.download white underline item.media green underline item.unsupported whitebg red Create your theme file and launch phetch with `-t FILE`, or set the `theme FILE` option in your `~/.config/phetch/phetch.conf` You can also set theme colors directly in your `phetch.conf`. Learn more about themes, including which colors are available, by opening phetch's on-line help: press `h` then `7` to get there quickly. For reference, we've included a few fun themes in the repo itself that you can download and play with: ## v1.1.0 Three new features in this release, plus an unknown number of new bugs: 1. When the `NO_COLOR` env variable is set, phetch won't use colors when rendering menus. See https://no-color.org/ for more information. 2. CP437 encoding support! You can toggle it on or off using `ctrl-e` (for encoding) when viewing a Gopher text document, or using the `--encoding` command line flag. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437. Huge thanks to Kjell for suggesting this feature and providing some great test data! _NOTE: This only works for text documents since there's no `TAB` character in CP437._ 3. phetch now supports a primitive form of wrapping long lines when rendering Gopher text documents. It won't reflow the text, but it will make some phlogs and other documents slightly more readable. Enable it with `--wrap NUM` or by adding `wrap NUM` to your `phetch.conf`. You can disable it with `wrap 0`. --- You may have run into long lines that don't break at the margins, making the page hard to scroll and read: ![not wrapped](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/41523880/97058194-f73d9d80-1541-11eb-8fc8-910489fafcc3.png) Now, by either passing `--wrap NUM` or adding `wrap NUM` to your `phetch.conf` file, phetch will attempt to wrap long lines at the nearest punctation or space: ![wrapped](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/41523880/97058201-fa388e00-1541-11eb-84ef-c539304870a6.png) This is really useful if you want to browse, say, a directory of Markdown files over Gopher. Modern Markdown is often written with the assumption that the client will do the wrapping, so it can end up looking pretty messy in an ananchronistic client like phetch. Reading those files is now a bit easier: | not wrapped | wrapped | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | ![not wrapped](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/41523880/97057857-1556ce00-1541-11eb-9cc1-6c6d438529ea.png) | ![wrapped](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/41523880/97057869-1ee03600-1541-11eb-8e7b-ae47ff9ec871.png) | This also works nicely on native Gopher content: phlog entries sometimes have long URLs in their footnotes, and that could screw up phetch's margin calculations. Note that this doesn't do any _reflow_ of text, so documents with long lines will still look a bit wonky, as you can see above. Some lines will be too short. But it's a lot more usable, so we'll take it! PS: You can use smaller values to get weird with it: ![weird](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/41523880/97057878-269fda80-1541-11eb-9435-89f97cce8825.png) Enjoy! ## v1.0.7 This release fixes https://github.com/xvxx/phetch/issues/19 phetch was aborting whenever it encountered a connection error instead of trying the alternate socket addrs it was given. Special thanks to @Ramiferous and @voidpin and **rvp**! ## v1.0.6 - More "reload" bugfixes. ## v1.0.5 Fix a crash introduced in 1.0.4. ## v1.0.4 - The `ctrl-u` and `ctrl-g` keyboard shortcuts can now be used to reload the current page. ## v1.0.3 This release adds support for the `;` and `s` Gopher item types, as well as the ability to play them in a media player - meaning you can now run Gopher-powered media servers! As seen here: https://twitter.com/grufwub/status/1264296292764856320 `mpv` is used by default, but you can specify a custom player or disable the feature using the `-m` and `-M` flags. Info has been added to `--help` and the phetch manual. Special thanks to @grufwub for the feature request and getting the code rolling! Enjoy! ## v1.0.2 This release fixes a few small but irritating bugs: - ANSI color codes now render properly. Full technicolor support. Try it out: `phetch gopher://tilde.black/1/users/genin/` - Resizing your terminal now resizes phetch automatically. - Downloads can now be cancelled while in-progress with no funny business. - Debug information is now properly displayed when phetch crashes. ## v1.0.1 This is a small bugfix release. Thanks to @TheEnbyperor and @grufwub! - phetch no longer panics on multibyte characters when trying to truncate Gopher content. ## v1.0.0 `phetch` is now **v1.0.0**! Major thanks to @kseistrup for design, testing, and documentation, @iglosiggio for supporting [GILD][gild], @lartu for inspiration, and @antirez for re-introducing me to Gopher one year ago with his blog post, [Gopher: a present for Redis](http://antirez.com/news/127). --- ![phetch screen][phetch screen] --- `phetch` is a terminal Gopher client designed to help you quickly navigate the gophersphere. With a snappy, text-based UI, Gopher types distinguished by color, and built-in support for secure Gopher and Tor routing, `phetch` is perfect for catching up on the latest from sdf.org or kicking back and enjoying some Zaibatsu. Download a binary release below for Linux, Raspberry Pi, or macOS, or see the [Installation][install] section of the README for instructions on how to install for Arch Linux with AUR (`yay phetch`), macOS with homebrew (`brew install xvxx/code/phetch`), or how to build from source. --- I have fond memories of using telnet to connect to the local library when I was a kid, browsing their selection of books in an amber-colored, text-based interface. This was the mid-90s, so I was using some version of Windows, literally dialing into the library with Hyperterminal.

library tui

It was futuristic. And, I thought, lost in the past. But Gopher, a relic of that text-based era, lives on thanks to the work of some amazing folks, and today there are more Gopher servers than ever. The protocol is simple, constrained, and bursting with opportunity. And while [MTV may not have an active Gopher server anymore][mtv], you can easily run your own, or find a generous host like SDF or a tilde. --- ![gopher menu in phetch][phetch menu] --- `phetch` is my attempt to bring a little bit of that retro-nostalgia back into my terminal. Sure, I can acccess Gopher just fine using `lynx` or through a web proxy like [Floodgap][floodgap], but where's the fun in that? To get started just install and run `phetch`. It's not perfect, but I've had fun using it, and I hope you do too! [phetch screen]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xvxx/phetch/f1fe58d2483af1c64fa61aa46e5858b599f8e67b/img/start.png [phetch menu]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xvxx/phetch/3ec5e3f4335a5fdf709b5643da8aa4d5abe70815/img/dos.png [install]: README.md#installation [gild]: https://github.com/xvxx/gild [floodgap]: https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ [mtv]: https://tedium.co/2017/06/22/modern-day-gopher-history/ ## v0.9.1 This update improves the release system. The man page is now included in release downloads and installed with `homebrew`. ## v0.9.0 This is the first release candidate for `phetch v1.0.0`. We will continue fixing bugs, tweaking the release system, and pruning the public Rust API, but no new features will be added until v1.0.0 is released. ### Added - Changelog is now available: gopher://phkt.io/0/code/phetch/CHANGELOG.md - Added some basic internals documentation. - Added `--no-default-features` build flag to disable Tor and TLS. ### Changed - Parsing and rendering Gophermaps got a major performance boost. - Memory utilization has been reduced. - Error checking has been improved throughout. - Fixed .onion URLs when using Tor. - phetch is now clippy compatible. - phetch config is not loaded in tests. - TTY checking disabled in tests. - Fixed `--no-config` flag. - Fixed crash when building without git. - Fixed a few status line display bugs. - Fixed a minor config parsing bug. ## v0.1.13 This release fixes some longstanding display bugs and introduces Tor support to help you easily browse Gopher more anonymously. The next release will be `v0.9.0`, the first release candidate for `phetch v1.0`. We do not anticipate adding any more large features before the 1.0 release. ### Added - phetch now supports [Tor][tor]! - phetch now supports a `~/.config/phetch/phetch.conf` config file! - Specify your own config file with `--config FILE`. Or disable with `-C`/`--no-config`. - Emoji can be used as status indicators. Put `emoji yes` in your config file. 🧅🔐 - `phetch --print URL` will just print a rendered version of the page. - `phetch -p URL | cat` works now. A simplified, plaintext version of the page will be rendered. - Tor and TLS can be disabled with `-O` and `-S`, opposites of their `-o` and `-s` flags. - On macOS, phetch is now available through [Homebrew](brew.sh): > brew install xvxx/code/phetch ### Changed - Wide mode (`ctrl-w`/`w`) is now session-wide, not per-page. - Many rendering bugs fixed. Pages with UTF8 errors are now displayed. - Sites that don't prefix their selectors with `/` now work. [tor]: (https://www.torproject.org/)