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14 .Dd $Mdocdate: March 28 2021$
29 is an interactive browser for the Gemini protocol.
30 It is able to process text/gemini and more in general every text/* file.
32 also features tabs, bookmarks and out-of-band TOFU verification.
34 The arguments are as follows:
35 .Bl -tag -width tenletters
37 Display version and usage.
40 Only check the configuration file for validity.
42 Specify an alternative configuration file.
44 .Pa $HOME/.telescope/config
49 aims to use the "Trust, but Verify (where appropriate)" approach.
50 The idea is to define three level of verification for a certificate:
53 the server fingerprint does NOT match the stored value
55 the server fingerprint matches the store one
57 the fingerprint matches and has been verified out-of-band
62 level is enough, but where is appropriate users should be able to
63 verify out-of-band the certificate.
65 At the moment, there is no built-in support for an out-of-band
68 Known certificates are store in
69 .Pa ~/.telescope/known_hosts
70 with a format similar to the
74 Each line is a record and it's made up by three fields, separated by a
75 single space, according to the following format:
80 the hostname, optionally followed by a colon (":") and a port number.
82 is the hash of the certificate, as outputted by
83 .Xr tls_peer_cert_hash 3 .
86 0 means trusted, 1 verified.
88 .Sh DEFAULT KEY BINDINGS
89 The default key bindings are very similar to GNU Emacs, but care has
90 been taken to include also bindings familiar for
95 In the following examples, C-x means Control-x, M-x means Meta-x,
96 where the Meta key may be either a special key on the keyboard or the
97 ALT key; otherwise ESC followed by the key X works as well, and C-M-x
98 means to press the key X together with both Control and Meta.
100 Keys are usually a single character, like
104 but some special keys are accepted as well.
106 .Bl -tag -width 16m -offset indent -compact
116 Previous page/Page up
136 Depends on the configuration of the terminal emulator.
137 Usually is shift tab though.
139 .Ss GNU Emacs-like keys
140 .Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxx -offset indent -compact
154 move-beginning-of-line
170 execute-extended-command
204 .Ss Xr vi 1 Ns -like keys
205 .Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxx -offset indent -compact
219 move-beginning-of-line
251 execute-extended-command
254 .Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxx -offset indent -compact
272 .Ss Neither Emacs nor vi specific
273 .Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxx -offset indent -compact
287 .Ss Minibuffer-specific keys
288 .Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxx -offset indent -compact
290 mini-complete-and-exit
298 mini-delete-backward-char
300 mini-delete-backward-char
302 mini-delete-backward-char
314 move-beginning-of-line
318 move-beginning-of-line
322 mini-previous-history-element
324 mini-next-history-element
326 mini-previous-history-element
328 mini-next-history-element
330 .Sh INTERACTIVE COMMANDS
331 Follows the documentation for the interactive commands.
332 These commands can be bound to a key or executed with
333 .Ic execute-extended-command .
334 .Ss Movement commands
335 .Bl -tag -width execute-extended-command -compact
337 Move point one character backward.
338 .It Ic backward-paragraph
339 Move point one paragraph backward.
340 .It Ic beginning-of-buffer
341 Move point to the beginning of the buffer.
343 Move point to the end of the buffer.
345 Move point one character forward.
346 .It Ic forward-paragraph
347 Move point one paragraph forward.
348 .It Ic move-beginning-of-line
349 Move point at the beginning of the current (visual) line.
350 .It Ic move-end-of-line
351 Move point at the end of the current (visual) line.
353 Move point to the next link.
355 Move point to the next heading.
357 Move point to the next (visual) line, in the same column if possible.
358 .It Ic previous-button
359 Move point to the previous link.
360 .It Ic previous-heading
361 Move point to the previous heading.
363 Move point to the previous (visual) line.
365 .Ss Bookmark-related commands
366 .Bl -tag -width execute-extended-command -compact
368 Add a link to the bookmark file.
369 It preloads the minibuffer with the current URL.
370 .It Ic list-bookmarks
371 Load the bookmarks page.
373 .Ss Tab-related commands
374 .Bl -tag -width execute-extended-command -compact
376 Close the current tab.
377 .It Ic tab-close-other
378 Close all tabs but the current one.
380 Move the current tab after the next one, wrapping around if
383 Move the current tab before the previous one, wrapping around if needed.
387 Focus next tab, wrapping around eventually.
389 Focus the previous tab, wrapping around eventually.
392 .Bl -tag -width execute-extended-command -compact
394 Clears the echo area.
395 .It Ic execute-extended-command
396 Prompts for a command name using the minibuffer.
397 .It Ic kill-telescope
400 .It Ic load-current-url
401 Prompts for an URL, the minibuffer is preloaded with the current
406 Load the next item in the history list.
408 Toggle olivetti mode (i.e. horizontal centering of the lines of the
411 Load the previous item in the history list.
413 Follow the link on the current line.
414 .It Ic push-button-new-tab
415 Follow the link on the current line on a new tab.
417 Redraw the screen, useful if some background program messed up the
420 Scroll down by one visual page.
421 .It Ic scroll-line-down
422 Scroll down by one line.
423 .It Ic scroll-line-up
424 Scroll up by one line.
426 Scroll up by one visual page.
428 Toggle side window with help about available keys and their associated
431 .Ss Minibuffer commands
432 .Bl -tag -width execute-extended-command -compact
434 Abort the current minibuffer action.
435 .It Ic mini-complete-and-exit
436 Complete the current minibuffer action.
437 .It Ic mini-delete-backward-char
438 Delete the character before the point.
439 .It Ic mini-delete-char
440 Delete the character after the point.
441 .It Ic mini-kill-line
442 Delete from the point until the end of the line.
443 .It Ic mini-next-history-element
444 Load the previous history element.
445 .It Ic mini-previous-history-element
446 Load the next history element.
449 The following aliases are available during
450 .Ic execute-extended-command :
451 .Bl -tag -width 16m -compact
458 .It Ic q No and Ic wq
461 .Sh CONFIGURATION FILE
464 reads the configuration file at
465 .Pa ~/.telescope/config
466 or the one given with the
470 The format of the configuration file is fairly flexible.
471 The current line can be extended over multiple ones using a
474 Comments can be put anywhere in the file using a hash mark
476 and extend to the end of the current line, but backslashes can't be
477 used to extend comments over multiple lines.
479 The following constructs are available:
481 .It Ic set Ar opt No = Ar val
488 .Bl -tag -width twelveletters -compact
491 If not zero, enable colours.
494 is not set, 0 otherwise.
497 If greater than zero, lines of text will be formatted in a way that
498 don't exceed the given number of columns.
502 URL for the new tab page.
512 .It Ic proxy Ar proto Ic via Ar url
515 as proxy for all URLs with
519 must be a Gemini URI without path, query and fragment component.
520 .It Ic style Ar name Ar option
521 Change the styling of the element identified by
523 Multiple options may be specified within curly braces.
524 Valid style identifiers are:
525 .Bl -tag -width 14m -compact -offset Ds
537 for the heading of a preformatted block
539 for the content of a preformatted block
541 for the closing line of a preformatted block
546 .It Ic attr Ar prefix Oo Ar line Oo Ar trail Oc Oc
547 Sets the text attributes.
548 If only one value is given,
552 default to that; if two values are given then
556 Each attribute is a comma-separated list of keywords:
557 .Bl -tag -width underline -compact -offset Ds
561 best highlighting mode for the terminal.
565 reverses background/foreground colors.
567 makes the text blinking.
571 extra bright or bold.
573 .It Ic bg Ar prefix Oo Ar line Oo Ar trail Oc Oc
574 Sets the background color.
575 Follows the same behaviour as
577 regarding the optional parameters.
578 Supported colors are: default, black, red, green, yellow, blue,
579 magenta, cyan and white
580 .It Ic fg Ar prefix Oo Ar line Oo Ar trail Oc Oc
581 Sets the foreground color.
584 .It Ic prefix Ar prfx Op Ar cont
585 Sets the prefix for the given line to
589 as the prefix for the continuation lines
590 .Pq i.e. when a long line gets wrapped.
593 is not given its value will be the same of
598 .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
599 .It Pa ~/.telescope/bookmarks.gmi
601 .It Pa ~/.telescope/config
602 Default configuration file.
603 .It Pa ~/.telescope/known_hosts
604 Contains a list of host keys for all the hosts the user has visited.
605 See the TOFU section for more info.
606 .It Pa ~/.telescope/session
607 Contains the list of opened tabs in the last session, one per line.
610 and loaded on startup.
613 The following is my config file:
614 .Bd -literal -offset indent
615 # ignore the NO_COLOR environment variable
616 set enable-colors = 1
625 attr normal underline
633 It's possible to browse
635 .Pq i.e. simple websites
636 using programs like the duckling-proxy by defining a proxy in
637 .Pa ~/.telescope/config :
638 .Bd -literal -offset indent
639 proxy http via "gemini://localhost:1965"
640 proxy https via "gemini://localhost:1965"
645 without any configuration use
646 .Bd -literal -offset indent
647 telescope -c /dev/null
653 program was written by
654 .An Omar Polo Aq Mt op@omarpolo.com .
