CLIM-GOPHER

Browse Gopherspace in Common Lisp.

Requirements

For html links to work properly xdg-utils must be installed on linux.

This application also depends on the library cl-gopher, available at https://github.com/knusbaum/cl-gopher

It also depends on various libraries available through quicklisp

To Run

Make sure cl-gopher and clim-gopher are in a location that quicklisp can find them (for instance, ~/quicklisp/local-projects)

Then execute the following:

(ql:quickload 'clim-gopher)
(clim-gopher:browser)

Controls:

Clicking items should be the main method for exploration. A left click on an item will navigate to that item.

Menu items exist at the top of the browser:

• Back and Refresh should work as expected.
• History Toggles a pane that displays your session's browsing history. These items are clickable.
• Bookmarks Toggles a pane that displays your bookmarks. These are saved across sessions.
• Bookmark This Page Creates a new bookmark of the current page
• Toggle Uri Display should toggle whether or not the gopher URIs are displayed along side the links.

Right-clicking items (including those in the History and Bookmarks panes) should display a menu including the items:

• Go Line - Same as left-clicking. Navigate to this item.
• Add Bookmark - Create a bookmark to the item.
• Remove Bookmark - If a bookmark exists to the item, remove it from the bookmarks.

Distribution and Other Ways to Launch

Building a stand-alone binary

The build-exe.lsh script should build a stand-alone application. This script, however, currently relies on sbcl and several system-specific things. It may work as is, but you may have to modify it to make it work.

Modifications you may need:

• Change the shebang line so that it works with your lisp
• Change the `(load "~/quicklisp/setup.lisp") line to work with your lisp environment

Once the binary is built, you should be able to launch the resulting gopher binary

The flags are:

• -h - Print a help message and exit

A Gopher URL may be passed as an argument to the program, to start the browser on that page:

$ gopher sdf.org/

If you find any issues with the software, or have ideas for improvements, please create an issue on this repo, or even better, send a Pull Request!