#VF-1

VF-1 is a command line client for the Gopher protocol, written in Python and released under the BSD 2-Clause License. It features a unique and minimalistic user interface designed to facilitate rapid keyboard-driven navigation of Gopherspace. It boasts world-beating support for non-ASCII charactersets and ANSI colour codes, as well as experimental support for Gopher over TLS.

By design, VF-1 consists of a single file, vf1.py, and has no mandatory dependencies beyond the Python standard library (although the chardet library will be used opportunistically if installed).

VF-1 naturally has its own Gopherhole. You can use VF-1 (or any other Gopher client!) to access ASCII-formatted versions of the VF-1 man pages there.

The source code lives in a git repo hosted at Sourcehut.

The repository contains the following files (plus some development / packaging related noise):

• LICENSE - text of BSD 2-Clause License
• README.md - the README file you are currently reading
• vf1-tutorial.7 - troff source for the vf1-tutorial(7) man page
• vf1.1 - troff source for the vf1(1) man page
• vf1.py - Python source for VF-1 itself

VF-1 was developed by Solderpunk with substantial contributions from Alex Schroeder (aka Kensanata) and little bits of help from a few other helpful Gopherspace folk. See the top of the vf1.py source file for all contributors.