phetch is a terminal client designed to 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.

Once you've launched phetch, use ctrl-h to view the on-line help.

installation

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

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

development

cargo run -- <gopher-url>

screencast

screenshots

todo

• telnet: gopher://bitreich.org/1/lawn/bbs

bugs

• gopher://1436.ninja/1/twit.cgi ("iWritten and performed by Nathaniel" weirdness)

future features

• 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