Browsing gopher in Emacs

Browsing gopher in Emacs #emacs

🕜︎ - 2019-05-04

There's a nice mode to browse gopher sites in Emacs: gopher.el on Microsoft Github.

First impressions:

Cool!
Links should be highlighted better - underlined?
Going back is B - which is annoying to type, why not a lower case letter? I'm used to q from Magit, Gnus and many other places in Emacs - that would be my preference.
When you to back, the cursor is put at the top of the page, rather than where it was, which makes browsing a bunch of pages less easy, as you have to remember how far down the page/list you got.
I don't have w3m installed, so I had to uncomment 4 lines to make gopher.el load; maybe that could Just Work™ automatically?

repo link is broken https://github.com/msnyder-info/gopher.el , looks like user msnyder-info deleted all github repos, and I could not find gopher.el anywhere

I hadn't noticed - I have put the clone of the repository I have (from 2019) on koldfront.dk/git/gopher.el so at least that is available.

Thanks for the heads up!

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