Re: [gopher] New console gopher client
> Hi,
Hi John,
> * Quentin Rameau <quinq@fifth.space> [170819 23:35]:
> > I wanted to let you know you can try sacc (short for saccomys) if
> > you're interested, a simple console gopher client.
> > [...]
> > You can find it at git://git.fifth.space/sacc (mirrored at the
> > Bitreich project git://bitreich.org/sacc).
>
> Looks nice! I've been searching for a text-mode client alternative
> to the UMN Gopher client, have used Lynx and ELinks in their Gopher
> capacity, but had issues with both of these...not recalling exactly
> what at the moment, but sacc looks nice -- a simple program for a
> simple protocol. I like that when going up & down the menus the
> selection doesn't wrap. I typically have the key-repeat rate set high,
> so holding down the up/down keys (or k/j keys) zooms to the top or
> bottom of the menu and stop without endlessly cycling in circles. This
> is something that always bugged me about the UMN Gopher client.
I'm glad you like it so far!
Yes, I think too that the scrolling is better this way, and if you
prefer to have static pages, you can still scroll by full page too.
> A few suggestions:
>
> 1. Provide option to specify the pager so sacc can for example point
> to a custom-keyed Less with "h" as quit to continue with hjkl and
> navigate out of some text I'm reading in the pager.
You just have to set your prefered pager in the PAGER environment
variable.
> 2. Avoid the [Press Enter to continue] when quitting the pager after
> reading something. Just quit the pager and go straight back to the
> menu.
Yes, this is something we need to take care of.
I just added it for my personal taste because of less -E, which would
just not show some small text files, but indeed this is more
problematic than useful.
> 3. Some way to adjust test/menu highlight colors via the config file.
At the moment there are no colors involved, just inverted text (bg/fg).
If we add some colors at some point, they'll be configurable through
the config file indeed!
> Thanks for putting this out there!
Thank you for your interest, I'm a little busy these days but more work
on it is coming!
— Quentin
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