https://github.com/LukeEmmet/Romulus

A cross platform Gemini console client in C# with a simple user interface
https://github.com/LukeEmmet/Romulus

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A cross platform Gemini console client in C# with a simple user interface

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/LukeEmmet/Romulus
• Owner: LukeEmmet
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2021-05-19T20:13:13.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-07-21T21:15:48.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-02-09T21:59:42.060Z (4 months ago)
• Language: C#
• Size: 169 KB
• Stars: 12
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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• awesome-gemini - Romulus - interactive TUI client with menus and mouse support (Clients / Terminal)
• awesome-cli-apps - Romulus - A cross-platform Gemini console client in C# with a simple user interface, interactive menus and mouse support. (<a name="browser"></a>Web browser)
• cli-apps - Romulus - A cross-platform Gemini console client in C# with a simple user interface, interactive menus and mouse support. (<a name="browser"></a>Web browser)

README

        
# Romulus

A cross platform Gemini console client in C# with a simple user interface.

# Usage

```

Romulus 

```

# Features

* Interactive menus

* Mouse support, including wheelmouse scrolling for consoles that support it

* Monochrome yet beautiful gemtext rendering, by using whitespace and layout to indicate the page elements and structure. 

* Fixes vertical spacing between elements for a global homogenous gemtext style

* Pretty text rendering, including hanging bullets, nice quotations and the like

* Interactive table of contents for each page

* Fast history navigation, including remembering page offset

* Bookmark support

# Screenshots

Gemini home page

![](screenshot_gemini_home.png)

Menu showing the structure of a page

![](screenshot_structure_menu.png)

# Download

A binary download for Windows x64 is available on https://www.marmaladefoo.com/pages/romulus

# Building

Romulus is a .NET Core C# application, so it should be able to be compiled on the supported platforms, including Windows and Linux.

Romulus uses the [SmolNetSharp](https://github.com/LukeEmmet/SmolNetSharp) library  which should be checked out into a sibling folder, for example

```

Projects

└─Romulus

└─SmolNetSharp

```

Romulus uses the Gui.cs console library

https://github.com/migueldeicaza/gui.cs

# Known issues

* Windows Terminal does not yet support mouse - use standard command shell

* Linux shell - on returning from application control characters may be send to the shell on mouse moving (fix: start a new shell instance)

# Feedback

* send feedback to: luke @ marmaladefoo . com