Elpher 2.7.0: the text/gemini update
- 🗣️ From: plugd (plugd (a) thelambdalab.xyz)
- 📅 Sent: 2020-05-16 00:13
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Hi all,
Anybody using elpher might be interested to know that I've just pushed a
number of gemini-centric improvements/changes.
Changes specific to text/gemini:
- Text wraps at word boundaries near 80 columns or the window width,
whichever is smaller.
- Text wrapping works sensibly with bullets, indenting wrapped lines.
- Pre-formatted text blocks work.
- Styles are applied to headers (different font sizes by default and
when possible.
- Removed the left hand margin which used to contain link types, which
was a result of reusing gophermap rendering functions and doesn't
make as much sense in gemini (which lacks a finite set of link types).
Links are still coloured according to protocol, however.
Changes relating to network connections:
- I've optimized the functions responsible for retrieving gemini, gopher
and finger content, resulting in a massive improvement in transfer
rate. (That's a very positive way to say that I've replaced a very
silly function with a more sensible one.) It wasn't practical to
download mp3s previously, now it is.
- Given the slew of new servers, I've altered the default server
certificate verification policy to, erm, not verify certificates.
Even though this behaviour is configurable, I feel a bit dirty about
this. Hopefully I'll find a way to implement a proper tofu behaviour
in the future.
Changes missing from this update:
- !! Support for client certificates. :-( !!
The new version is already up on MELPA and should be up on MELPA Stable
within the hour.
Cheers,
Tim
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