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>              open gopherhole at 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-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
• phetch-linux-armv7.tar.gz (RPi)
• phetch-macos.zip

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

development

cargo run -- <gopher-url>

gifcast

screenies

todo

• [ ] activate search mode with / or i
• [ ] de-activate search mode with ESC
• [ ] ENTER on non-match is an error
• [ ] show "SEARCH MODE" indicator in bottom right?
• [ ] update help
• [ ] add credits page
• [ ] 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