Using Chawan as a gopher browser
Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:30:47 +0200
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Recently  I logged  an issue  with the  author of  the Chawan  text
browser about  the rendering of  gophermaps. I was  quite surprised
when he fixed  the issue rapidly and made it  available. He fixed a
bug, missing space between item type  and title. OCD me also wanted
the item  types to line  up as they do  in Lynx. The  author solved
this my moving gopher item types to CSS, making it possible to edit
the type. My ~/.config/chawan/config.toml now looks like this:

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 [buffer]
 images = true
 user-style = '''
 @media (-cha-content-type: "text/gopher") {
     a[item-type]::before { content: "( UNKN) " }
     a[item-type='0']::before { content: "( FILE) " }
     a[item-type='1']::before { content: "(  DIR) " }
     a[item-type='3']::before { content: "(  ERR) " }
     a[item-type='5']::before { content: "(  DOS) " }
     a[item-type='7']::before { content: "(QUERY) " }
     a[item-type='m']::before { content: "(  MSG) " }
     a:is([item-type='s'], [item-type='>'])::before 
     { content: "(  SND) " }
     a[item-type='g']::before { content: "(  GIF) " }
     a[item-type='h']::before { content: "( HTML) " }
     a[item-type='I']::before { content: "(  IMG) " }
     a[item-type='9']::before { content: "(  BIN) " }
     a[item-type='p']::before { content: "(  PNG) " }
     a[item-type=';']::before { content: "(  VID) " }
 }
 '''
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I don't think I'll move from Lynx yet, but the main advantages are:
 - gopher,gemini and web browsing  
 - excellent html page rendering (IMHO the best there is) 
 - images in web pages

On the  down side "i" item types aren't spaced to line up  with the
rest, which  is maybe  fixable in  the css.  It's also  slower than
Lynx as my X220 doesn't have a GPU.  But who knows,  it might float 
your boat, give it a try!

https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/
gopher://spike.nagatha.fr/0/phlog/2025/2025-06-15-00-00-Howto-install-Chawan-on-Artix.txt