ncgopher is a gopher, gemini and finger client for the modern internet. It uses ncurses and is written in Rust.
Gopher was developed in 1991 at the University of Minnesota, and named after the school’s mascot. Gopher is a menu-driven interface that allows a user to browse for text information served off of various gopher servers. Gemini is an application-level internet protocol for the distribution of arbitrary files, with some special consideration for serving a lightweight hypertext format which facilitates linking between files.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Gopher, gemini and finger support.
- Ncurses interface.
- Keyboard commands for navigation.
- Bookmarks support including custom title.
- History of visited gopher holes.
- Download of text files and gophermaps (Save as…).
- Download of binary files.
- Menu for easy configuration.
- Mouse support in some terminals.
- TLS support.
- Darkmode.
- External commands for HTML, images and Telnet.
- Vi-like search in text.
- Bookmarks, history and option to disable history recording.
Website: github.com/jansc/ncgopher
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Developer: The ncgopher Authors
License: BSD 2-Clause License
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