[users] [ANN] telescope -- yet another browser

[Jonathan McHugh]

Hi Omar,

Thanks for your work.

Just a quick heads up, your Guix link featured on your HTTPS project homepage (I cant access Gemini on this device atm) is broken.

It links to version 0.2 (giving a server error on the Guix page^1, whereas 0.3 is now available (and
=> https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/telescope-0.3/

I noticed the inputs into the system, nice and lightweight!
=> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/web-browsers.scm#n911

Im looking forward to testing it.

Btw, what your impression of tinmop? I havent tried it yet.

^1 I dont recall the Guix HTTP package page navigating by version number. It makes sense I suppose.


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Jonathan McHugh
indieterminacy@libre.brussels

July 1, 2021 6:52 PM, "Omar Polo" <op@omarpolo.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> During the last 3/4 months I've been working on a yet another Gemini
> ncurses client: telescope
> 
> => gemini://telescope.omarpolo.com
> => https://telescope.omarpolo.com
> 
> It's obviously a project only for fun, in a very-WIP stage and with lots
> of missing pieces, but it's improving and I've reached the point where I
> think I can present it to a wider audience.
> 
> The main difference between telescope and others (I've only tried tinmop
> and amfora as TUI clients) is the Emacs (and w3m) inspired interface:
> instead of scrolling a page and typing a number to open a link, you have
> a cursor you can move freely around the page.
> 
> The default keybindings are heavily inspired from Emacs, but I tried at
> least to include some keys familiar to vi(1) users, so hjkl, gg, G, gT
> etc. work. All the keybindings are customizable anyway.
> 
> The current list of features is honestly quite short:
> * color and keybindings are customizable
> * history
> * rudimentary bookmark management
> * tabs (on startup reloads the last set of tabs)
> * streaming pages
> * rich set of commands to move around the page
> * splitted in three different process, each one is pledged (this only
> on OpenBSD ofc; will add seccomp/landlock in the future, probably)
> 
> while the TODO list is ever-growing!
> 
> I know there are various annoyances still (I just fixed the resize
> "jump" in the main branch for instance), but as I was saying, it has
> now reached a point where I think it's starting to become "usable". I'd
> love to receive feedbacks (and even more patches! :P)
> 
> Telescope 0.3 is available on guix, thanks to cage who did the work.
> Precompiled binaries for linux amd64 and aarch64 are available from the
> site, but it's very easy to compile from source since it only depends on
> libevent, libncursesw, libtls and yacc/bison. It's known to compile and
> run on FreeBSD too.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Omar Polo