Gopherus v1.2

[Mateusz Viste]

Hello, today Gopherus v1.2 got published.

Gopherus is a multiplatform, console-based gopher client. According to
the Observable Gopherspace Universe Project (OGUP), there are over 200
active gopher servers in the gopherspace today. Gopherus changelog
follows.

Gopherus v1.2 [19 Jan 2020]:
- [new] bookmarks ("b" key),
- [new] UTF-8 support,
- [new] IPv6 support (except on the DOS target),
- [new] full terminal width used now (no longer limited to 80 columns),
- [new] all files from current folder can be downloaded by pressing
F10,
- [new] SDL versions have a resizeable (scalable) window,
- [new] SDL versions react to keypad arrows as well as normal arrows,
- [new] user may abort a connection during its 'connecting...' phase,
- [new] home page shortcut key (F2),
- [fix] fixed buffer overflow within menu lines parser,
- [fix] SDL UI does not enforce software rendering any more,
- [fix] improved pgup/pgdown keys logic in menus,
- [fix] wordwrapped menu entries are displayed in parent's colors,
- [fix] Windows sockets are properly closed (patch by Gisle Vanem),
- [fix] function keys react properly when used with the CURSES
interface,
- [fix] telnet links are recognized now (but unsupported),
- [mnt] Windows build no longer distributed (do it yourself),
- [mnt] DOS 32-bit build no longer distributed (use the 16-bit
version).


http://gopherus.sourceforge.net


Mateusz

[Computer Nerd Kev]

Mateusz Viste <mat...@xyz.invalid> wrote:
> Hello, today Gopherus v1.2 got published.

I wonder why you didn't post this to comp.infosystems.gopher? Oh
well, not cross-posting in case there was a good reason. I'm about
to start talking about the Linux build in a MSDOS group though (I
haven't got a DOS system with networking set up).

> Gopherus is a multiplatform, console-based gopher client. According to
> the Observable Gopherspace Universe Project (OGUP), there are over 200
> active gopher servers in the gopherspace today. Gopherus changelog
> follows.
>
> Gopherus v1.2 [19 Jan 2020]:
> - [new] bookmarks ("b" key),

This is a very needed addition. Would be nice to be able to
customise the entry names though. Hmm, ~/.gopherus.bookmarks
looks fairly editable... Yep, OK I've found out how to do that.

> - [new] full terminal width used now (no longer limited to 80 columns),
> - [new] all files from current folder can be downloaded by pressing
> F10,

Great.

> - [fix] function keys react properly when used with the CURSES
> interface,

Ah, that wasn't just a problem for me then.

Other notes:
^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think it should be mentioned in build.txt that the Linux build
now depends on ncursesw instead of ordinary ncurses. I didn't have
the ncursesw dev package installed, and it took me a while to figure
out what was going wrong on as I knew that ncurses-dev was
installed.

Performance is much better now when scrolling down gophermaps (with
the Linux/ncursesw build). It doesn't trim the list of sdf.org users
for being too long now either.

External viewers and a configuration file would be nice, though
already planned in todo.txt. For the latter, it would be nice if it
also had an option to set a default downloads directory.

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[Mateusz Viste]

2020-01-20 at 07:40 +0000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> I wonder why you didn't post this to comp.infosystems.gopher? Oh
> well, not cross-posting in case there was a good reason.

No good reason, that was my omission. Fixed now, thanks for bringing
that up.

> > - [new] bookmarks ("b" key),
>
> This is a very needed addition. Would be nice to be able to
> customise the entry names though. Hmm, ~/.gopherus.bookmarks
> looks fairly editable... Yep, OK I've found out how to do that.

Indeed, the file is a crude gophermap - easy to edit. I did not add any
way to customize the entries within the UI simply because I don't need
it myself (and I am not interested in building the boring logic for
that). :)

> I think it should be mentioned in build.txt that the Linux build
> now depends on ncursesw instead of ordinary ncurses.

Good point.

> Performance is much better now when scrolling down gophermaps (with
> the Linux/ncursesw build). It doesn't trim the list of sdf.org users
> for being too long now either.

Happy to hear.

> External viewers and a configuration file would be nice, though
> already planned in todo.txt. For the latter, it would be nice if it
> also had an option to set a default downloads directory.

All planned, yes. Although I cannot promise any timeline. Life keeps me
pretty busy, cannot invest as much time into hobbies as I'd like to...

Thanks for your feedback!

Mateusz

[Bozo User]

UTF8 support? Under DOS? Wow.