phetch is a terminal gopher client designed for quick keyboard navigation. It is the spiritual successor to GILD.

features:

• small (<1MB) executable for linux and mac
• technicolor design
• no nonsense keyboard navigation

usage

phetch <gopher-url>    # Show Gopherhole at URL
phetch -r <gopher-url> # Print raw Gopher response.
phetch -h              # Show this screen.
phetch -v              # Show phetch version.

installation

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

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

You can also build from source using cargo build --release, if you want.

development

cargo run -- <gopher-url>

resources

• rfc 1346
• http://ascii-table.com/ansi-escape-sequences.php
• http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/BuildyourownCommandLinewithANSIescapecodes.html

TODO

Basics

• open local files
• download to ~/Downloads
• ? to show all keyboard shortcuts
• save history to file
• load history from file
• load most recent URL when opening without args

Bonus

• async gopher request
• TLS
• fuzzy find search links
  • https://github.com/stewart/rff
  • https://github.com/Schlechtwetterfront/fuzzy-rs
• detect SIGWINCH
  • https://github.com/BurntSushi/chan-signal

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