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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ -This is a CLI web/gopher/file browser inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Mode_Browser][Line Mode Browser]]. +This is a CLI/emacs web/gopher/file browser inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Mode_Browser][Line Mode +Browser]]. -It combines [[http://pandoc.org/][pandoc]] with external downloaders such as [[https://curl.haxx.se/][curl]], adding +It utilizes [[http://pandoc.org/][pandoc]] and external downloaders such as [[https://curl.haxx.se/][curl]], adding support for Gopher directories and plaintext files, and invoking external applications (e.g., image and PDF viewers) depending on its configuration. @@ -56,18 +57,15 @@ paginate: true * Excluded features -- Usage of content types reported by network protocols: HTTP content - types are ignored, Gopher item types are used only loosely and - indirectly, and pancake mostly relies on URIs for format detection. - Usually it works, but can be improved -- though that would slightly - complicate both the configuration and the codebase, which may be not - worth it. +The following features were not implemented, since the complication +may be not worth the benefits, but maybe they will be in the future: + +- Usage of content types reported by network protocols: pancake relies + on URIs for format detection, what usually works, but can be + improved. - Semantic markup for embedding: it might be useful to provide - semantic markup to ~pancake-mode~ (and for embedding in general) in - order to e.g. buttonize links (and embed images, perhaps), but it's - tricky to draw a line between that and just serializing pandoc - structures, skipping the rendering altogether. Simplicity would - suffer, too. + denotations to ~pancake-mode~ (and for embedding in general) in + order to buttonize links, render TeX math, embed images, etc. * Screenshots |