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

[Mateusz Viste]

Hi,

You might want to try out my gopher client for Linux:
http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/software/ddwarf/

(also available via gopher, at:
gopher://gopher.viste-family.net/1/projects/ddwarf/ )

bye,
Mateusz Viste



John Magolske wrote:
> 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