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Elpher 2.7.0: the text/gemini update

📧 Messages: 3
🗣️ Authors: 3
📅 First Message: 2020-05-16 00:13
📅 Last Message: 2020-05-17 21:43

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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Ben <benulo (a) systemli.org>

📅 Sent: 2020-05-16 02:19
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I love this! Elpher was already the best client I've used so far, but 
this update just takes the cake. 1000x improvement.

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Jason McBrayer <jmcbray (a) carcosa.net>

📅 Sent: 2020-05-17 21:43
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plugd <plugd at thelambdalab.xyz> writes:

> Anybody using elpher might be interested to know that I've just pushed a
> number of gemini-centric improvements/changes.

Thanks so much for this! I've really been looking forward to it.

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| Jason F. McBrayer                    jmcbray at carcosa.net  |  
| If someone conquers a thousand times a thousand others in |  
| battle, and someone else conquers himself, the latter one |  
| is the greatest of all conquerors.  --- The Dhammapada    |

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