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                                           |__| v0.8.1

Telescope is a w3m-like browser for Gemini

Telescope is written entirely for fun, as a hobbystic project in my free time. As such, it lacks a ton of features you’ll find in more mature Gemini browsers, but it also has some unique ones.

The UI is strongly inspired from Emacs and W3M, so you’ll find some familiar concepts, such as the minibuffer or the tabline, and the default keybindigs also reflect this, but keys familiar for vi and CUA users are also present by default.

Install

Some distros provide a package — thanks to the maintainers!

Source code and precompiled binaries for linux are available:

• telescope-0.8.1.tar.gz
• git repository
• GitHub mirror
• telescope.amd64

The dependencies are:

• libncurses
• libevent
• libtls (from either LibreSSL or libretls)
• yacc (or GNU bison)

Once all the dependencies are installed, building is as easy as:

$ curl -LO https://github.com/omar-polo/telescope/releases/download/0.8.1/telescope-0.8.1.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf telescope-0.8.1.tar.gz
$ cd telescope-0.8.1
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install # eventually
    

A SHA256 file containing the checksums is available. However, that only checks for accidental corruption: you can use signify (SHA256.sig and the public key telescope-0.8.pub). The hash of the current and next signify public key is also included in the SHA256.

• SHA256
• SHA256.sig
• telescope-0.8.pub
• telescope-0.9.pub

How to verify the signature with signify:

$ signify -C -p telescope-0.8.1.pub -x SHA256.sig
Signature Verified
telescope-0.8.1.tar.gz: OK
telescope-0.8.pub: OK
telescope-0.9.pub: OK
telescope.amd64: OK
    

Changelog

0.8.1 “Le Scarpe Volanti” buildfix release — Released May 25, 2022

• Fix the build on macos. Reported by sikmir, thanks!

0.8 “Le Scarpe Volanti” — Released May 25, 2022

New features

• save and restore scroll position
• new command reply-last-input; idea from a conversation with thfr@, thanks!
• allow push urls to an already opened telescope session
• autocompletions for load-url and load-current-url
• new command write-buffer (with alias w)
• new command mini-kill-whole-line for the minibuffer
• split the minibuffer input into words and try to match out of order

Improvements

• move aliases at the top of the completions
• add alias `open' for load-url; suggested by Florian, thanks!
• update emoji-data.txt to 14.0.0
• persist the list of visited URLs to the disk
• fix builds out-of-tree
• correctly mark variables in the manpage so it's possible to jump to them
• rework completions selection: the selected entry is *always* the one used. if nothing is selected, the minibuffer content is used instead.
• merge the ui and fs processes
• rate-limit the update of the download pane

Bug fixes

• fix parsing of invalid link lines
• initialize each tab' loadingev timer event
• fix the build on recent version of musl