Gopher

Introduction

Rogallo has support for visiting Gopher servers. Much like when visiting a Gemini server, you can type in the URI of the location you wish to visit. Gopher URIs begin with gopher://.

Supported item types

Rogallo has direct support for a number of Gopher item types. These types will be handled by or rendered in Rogallo itself. Any other type will be turned into the most appropriate URI and passed to the operating system to be handled by other tools.

0 - Text

If an item is declared to be text, Rogallo will assume that it is safe to be treated as a text/plain type and, when selected, it will be shown in the viewer.

1 - Menu (directory)

If an item is declared to be a menu, Rogallo will follow the URI.

7 - Search

If an item is declared to be a search, when selected, Rogallo will prompt you for the query before following the link.

h - HTML

If an item is declared as being HTML, and the selector starts with URL:, what follows the URL: will be turned into a URI that can be followed.

Configuration

When showing Gopher maps, Rogallo will optionally prefix lines with a "badge" related to the type of line. The choices made for each "badge" for each type might not be to everyone's taste, so you can configure this in the gopher.yaml file found in the configuration directory.

Default

The default configuration looks like this:

show_type_badges: true
type_badges:
  '0': 📄
  '1': 📁
  '2': 📇
  '3': ❌
  '4': 📦
  '5': 💾
  '6': 📜
  '7': 🔍
  '8': 🖥️
  '9': 📦
  I: 🖼️
  P: 📄
  X: 📄
  d: 📄
  g: 🖼️
  h: 🌐
  i: ℹ️
  s: 🎵
  unknown: ❓

Using badges

Item type badges are turned on and used by default. If you wish to turn them off, set the show_type_badges setting to false.

show_type_badges: false

Configuring badges

You can control what is shown for each badge. By default the values are various characters themed after the types. If you wish to show different text, change the values for each defined type. For example, if you wanted to use simple three-latter codes:

type_badges:
  '0': "(TXT)"
  '1': "(DIR)"
  '2': "(CSO)"
  '3': "(ERR)"
  '4': "(HQX)"
  '5': "(DOS)"
  '6': "(UUE)"
  '7': "(FND)"
  '8': "(TEL)"
  '9': "(BIN)"
  I: "(IMG)"
  P: "(PDF)"
  X: "(XML)"
  d: "(DOC)"
  g: "(BIN)"
  h: "(WEB)"
  i: "(INF)"
  s: "(SND)"
  unknown: "(???)"