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	Making VF-1 Sexy
	August 06th, 2019
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	VF-1 is fast, but it's also pretty basic. It doesn't (yet) do
	pretty colors by types or anything sweet like that. Many of you
	are probably fine with that. "Colors are useless" people... I
	hear you, but I don't agree.

	In fact, even if the colors aren't structured, I still want them!
	I've been piping my VF-1 output through lolcat for a few months.
	It's brilliant, but was incomplete.

	Not to mention any names, but some of you don't wrap your text. I
	try not to be picky about whether wrapping happens at 80cols or at
	67cols, but when a gopher doesn't wrap at all it makes it very
	hard to read. I'll be honest, I usually just skim those posts as a
	result.

	"Why," I ask myself, "don't they just run it through fold(1)?"

	"Duh," I answer myself, "they don't want to or don't care."

	"But self, it would make my reading more convenient!"

	"Come'on, tomasino. What part of _don't care_ did you not get?"

	"I suppose you have a point. You're pretty smart."

	"Damn right..."

	"So..."

	"Oh crap--"

	"Why don't you solve it on the client end?"

	And I sigh and say, "Of course. VF-1 lets me lolcat. Why not fold
	as well? It should be simple."

	If you don't care about lolcat and only want to fold output
	automatically in VF-1, here's what you do. Add the following line
	to your ~/.vf1rc:

	$ cat ~/.vf1rc

	handler text/plain fold -sw 80 %s


	If you want to lolcat it too, like me, then you need to do a
	little bit more. I'm not sure what method VF-1 uses internally to
	parse the handlers, but it chokes hard on pipes. So, I wrote a very,
	very basic shell script to do it for me.

	$ cat ~/bin/goph

	#!/bin/sh
	FIN=${1:-"/dev/stdin"}
	fold -sw 80 "$FIN" \| lolcat -f

	Put that in your PATH and now you can pipe anything you want to
	'goph' and have it be pretty. It'll also take a file input. Then,
	in your ~/.vf1rc, you can add:

	$ cat ~/.vf1rc

	handler text/plain goph %s

	Let there be color, and pretty wrapping. Enjoy.