Elpher is an Emacs-based gopher client with the goal of providing an intuitive and pleasant way for Emacs users to browse gopherspace and gemini-space.
The preferred way to start using Elpher is to install it via either the ELPA (non-GNU) or MELPA package archives. This also installs a comprehensive Info manual, which is the primary source of documentation.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Intuitive keyboard and mouse-driven browsing.
- Out-of-the-box compatibility with evil-mode.
- Clickable web and gopher links in plain text.
- Caching of visited sites.
- Pleasant and configurable visualization of Gopher directories.
- Direct visualisation of image files.
- Jumping directly to links by name (with autocompletion).
- Simple bookmark management system.
- Connections using TLS encryption.
- Finger protocol.
Website: thelambdalab.xyz/elpher
Support:
Developer: The Elpher Authors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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