Vgmi is a Gemini client written in C with vim-like keybindings.
Gemini is a application-layer internet communication protocol introduced in 2019. The general purpose of a Gemini client is to send requests to Gemini capsules, usually listening on TCP port 1965, and rendering the server response, usally in gemtext. The Gemini protocol requires all communication to use TLS(a cryptographic protocol).
One of the goals of Vgmi was to allow navigating the geminispace using Vim keybindings. For example, pressing ‘j’ will scroll down and pressing ‘k’ will scroll up, pressing ‘gt’ will go to the next tab while pressing ‘gT’ will go to the previous. Those inputs can be repeated by preceding them with a number, typing ’10j’ will scroll down of 10 lines. Below is a demonstration of Vgmi, showing the keys that are being pressed by the user.
Vgmi can render images in the terminal by using the unicode character ‘▄’. The character is used to emulate a column of two pixels by setting the foreground and background colors. It is possible to emulate a screen of rather large pixels by covering the whole terminal with this unicode character with different colors.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/RealMelkor/Vgmi
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Developer: RMF
License: ISC License
Vgmi is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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