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1 => /gallery/ Gallery
2 => /telescope.1.txt Docs
4 # Telescope
6 > Telescope is a w3m-like browser for Gemini.
8 ``` Ascii art of the word “Telescope” and “v0.6.1”
9 _______ __
10 |_ _|.-----.| |.-----.-----.----.-----.-----.-----.
11 | | | -__|| || -__|__ --| __| _ | _ | -__|
12 |___| |_____||__||_____|_____|____|_____| __|_____|
13 |__| v0.6.1
14 ```
16 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.
18 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 care has been taken to add keys familiar for vi and CUA users too.
20 => https://asciinema.org/a/426862 Asciinema record
22 ## Install
24 => https://repology.org/project/telescope/versions Some distros provide a package — thanks to the maintainers!
26 otherwise build from sources:
27 => https://github.com/omar-polo/telescope/releases/download/0.6.1/telescope-0.6.1.tar.gz telescope-0.6.1.tar.gz
29 The dependencies are:
30 * libncurses
31 * libevent
32 * libtls (from either LibreSSL or libretls)
33 * yacc (or GNU bison)
35 Once all the dependencies are installed, building is as easy as:
37 ```Example of how to compile from source
38 $ curl -LO https://github.com/omar-polo/telescope/releases/download/0.6.1/telescope-0.6.1.tar.gz
39 $ tar xzvf telescope-0.6.1.tar.gz
40 $ cd telescope-0.6.1
41 $ ./configure
42 $ make
43 $ sudo make install # eventually
44 ```
46 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-0.6.pub) or GPG. The hash of the signify public key is also included in the SHA256 file and signed with my GPG too. The signify public key for the next release ‘telescope-0.7.pub’ is also included.
48 => https://github.com/omar-polo/telescope/releases/download/0.6.1/SHA256 SHA256
49 => https://github.com/omar-polo/telescope/releases/download/0.6.1/SHA256.gpg SHA256.gpg
50 => https://github.com/omar-polo/telescope/releases/download/0.6.1/SHA256.sig SHA256.sig
51 => https://github.com/omar-polo/telescope/releases/download/0.6.1/telescope-0.6.pub telescope-0.6.pub
52 => https://github.com/omar-polo/telescope/releases/download/0.6.1/telescope-0.7.pub telescope-0.7.pub
54 ```Example of how to verify the signature with signify
55 $ signify -C -p telescope-0.6.pub -x SHA256.sig
56 Signature Verified
57 telescope-0.6.pub: OK
58 telescope-0.6.1.tar.gz: OK
59 telescope-0.7.pub: OK
60 telescope.linux.aarch64: OK
61 telescope.linux.amd64: OK
62 ```
64 Finally, it’s possible to fetch the sources using git:
66 => //git.omarpolo.com/telescope/ git repository
67 => https://github.com/omar-polo/telescope GitHub mirror
70 ## Changelog
72 0.6.1 “Piccola storia ignobile” bugfix release — Released November 29, 2021
74 * Handle gracefully when landlock is disabled at runtime. Reported and tested by Nikolay Korotkiy, thanks!
77 0.6 “Piccola storia ignobile” — Released November 29, 2021
79 ## New features
81 * added a pane that lists all the downloads (current or not)
82 * download-path is customizable
83 * sandbox/safe mode: telescope won't write anything to the file system.
84 * XDG-style directories if ~/.telescope does not exists; idea and implementation by Andrea Feletto, thanks! (there's a script also by him in contrib to migrate the setup)
86 ## Improvements
88 * prefill the save prompt with the file name
89 * use landlock on linux if available
90 * add HOSTCC and HOSTCFLAGS variables for the configure script to allow cross-compiling (‘pagebundler’ needs to be built with the host compiler no matter what.) Prompted and tested by Nikolay Korotkiy, thanks!
92 ## Bug fixes
94 * fix diff syntax highlighting with more than one header involved
95 * [gemini] fix item line detection: a space is required after the `*' character
96 * handle empty replies (i.e. no header.) Found thanks to ondollo' capsule :)
97 * fixed a crash on macOs, by Nikolay Korotkiy (sikmir on github). Thanks!
98 * mention that telescope expects an UTF-8 environment in the CAVEATS section of the manpage