[gopher] Looking for a text-mode gopher client with certain features

John Magolske listmail at b79.net
Thu Oct 14 03:16:52 UTC 2010


Hi,

I typically use ELinks for my web browsing, so I think I'd be at
home using a text-mode gopher client. As far as I can tell, what's
available for Unix/Linux is:

http://www.quux.org:70/devel/gopher/Downloads/gopher_3.0.10.tar.gz

Which is what's aptitude installed on my Debian system. I've also
tried Lynx. Both of these seem to work ok, but there are a few
features I'm not finding:

* Have the cursor stop at bottom & top when scrolling through links or
  menus rather than jumping from the bottom to the top when scrolling
  down and jumping from the top to the bottom when scrolling up.

* Linewise scrolling -- when scrolling through a long page, the text
  jumps a full screenful at a time. I'd like the capability to scroll
  through pages a line at a time.

* Tab completion of directories when defining a filepath to save a
  file to, with an overwrite warning if the file already exists.

Would anyone know if it's possible to configure either of these
clients to behave as described? Or if there's another text-mode gopher
client that might be worth looking into? I believe ELinks can be
compiled with Gopher support...has anyone given that a try?

Regards,

John


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