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Bato spartan and gemini browser home

2024-08-07

bato is spartan and gemini tui browser for terminals. It can parse gemtext and markdown and browse files on local disk.

bato screenshot [IMG]

bato displaying a markdown file [IMG]

bato is available in my ssh service, connect with ssh and then press b:

ssh kiosk@apps.noulin.net

bato.gz (gziped elf executable 2024-02-22 no gemini)

Build

Bato depends on `sheepy` and `openssl`.

Sheepy is a build system for using C as a scripting language like python. It takes less than 5 minutes to install sheepy on a machine:

apt-get install gcc git
git clone https://spartatek.se/git/sheepy.git
cd sheepy
sudo -H ./install.sh

Then install bato like this:

sudo spm -g install bato

Usage

F1 or ? for help, q quit.

Features:

- Support for spartan protocol and local files

- Support for gemini protocol

- History

- Bookmarks

- Mouse and keyboard support

- Jump to headers within page

- Gemtext support

- Markdown support

- Support for TOFU, trust and tempory trust

- Support for gemini input

- Query from command line with -q option

- Support for client certificates (= identities, client certificates are not sent when redirects are absolute URLs)

- Identities are saved ~/.bato/identities/ in pem format

- Connections are synchronous (TUI freezes), when a server doesn't respond after 10s, the connections is closed.

- Redirects are limited to 5

- Inertial scrolling is available

- Right click goes back in history

TODO:

- sidebar has fixed sized

- dialog panels have fixed size and position

- emoji length is counted incorrectly, the UI gets messed up

- search doesn't work on markdown pages

Spartan root

Noulin's capsule

The configuration files are located in ~/.bato/

Delete ~/.bato to restart from scratch.

Markdown support

About the markdown syntax:

Bato markdown flavor

- GFM github flavored markdown

- *italic*

- _underline_

- __bold__

- -faint-

- %inverse%

- !conceal/hidden!

- ~crossed~

- ^blink^

- colors

[fgx800034](#x800034)

[fg9](#9) [fg15](#15) - standard 16 terminal **colors**

background color

[fgx12AB34 bgxffffff](#x12AB34#xffffff)

[fgxffAB34 bg1](#xffAB34#1)

[bgxffffff](##xffffff) < default fg color

[fgd bg1](##1) [fg9 bg2](#9#2) - standard 16 terminal colors

- anchors: destination [|id] and link [to id](|id)

- html entities: &xUnicodeHex; or &name;

- tables

| foo | bar |

| --- | --- |

| baz | bim |

| bot | bel |