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Should have some test input and outputs.
Probably use the gemini stress tests for this.

This could probably be a finite state machine reading one character at a time, although the input and output should be buffered to remain fast.

For now only https links properly translated to <a href="...">...</a>.

The use of <br/> everywhere isn't a very semantic use, and almost all can be removed:

• text should translate to <p>text</p>
• Empty lines should translate to <p><br/></p>
• Inline elements that must be on a line by themselves (such as <a>) should translate to <a style="display: block;">content</a>

Inspired by https://codeberg.org/talon/gmi-web

Like v0.4.0 Release, please upload and distribute pre-built binaries in v0.4.1.

Ampersand, angle brackets and quotes all should be escaped

I clone the project on thet latest version on master branch (84cfa53)
zig version : 0.10.1
I'm on archlinux x86_64 Linux 6.2.12-arch1-1

The error :

/home/david/src/gmi2html/src/main.zig:208:16: error: member function expected 0 argument(s), found 1
    while (args.next(allocator)) |maybeArg| {
           ~~~~^~~~~
/usr/lib/zig/std/process.zig:777:9: note: function declared here
    pub fn next(self: *ArgIterator) ?([:0]const u8) {
    ~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
referenced by:
    callMain: /usr/lib/zig/std/start.zig:614:32
    initEventLoopAndCallMain: /usr/lib/zig/std/start.zig:548:51
    remaining reference traces hidden; use '-freference-trace' to see all reference traces

error: gmi2html...
error: The following command exited with error code 1:
/usr/bin/zig build-exe /home/david/src/gmi2html/src/main.zig -fno-strip --cache-dir /home/david/src/gmi2html/zig-cache --global-cache-dir /home/david/.cache/zig --name gmi2html -fsingle-threaded --enable-cache
error: the following build command failed with exit code 1:

Some errors that probably should be handled:

• file not found
• file is dir
• access denied
• unrecognized argument

• -h should show help, which should also be shown if no input is given
• -v should show the version

Maybe something like

• --inline-images
• --inline-video
• --inline-audio
• --inline-all

A web page probably isn't that useful if all the links point to places inaccessible from a web browser.
Ideas:

• Provide a domain to the flag and urls matching that domain become https e.g. gemini://thing.com => https://thing.com. This works if the whole gemini site is mirrored on the the web
• Link to a gemini web portal. This works all the time but isn't great if the site is mirrored on the web, people will be viewing pages through a portal they could just be seeing on the web.
• Users just pipe the gemtext through awk or something before gmi2html allowing them to do whatever works best but making their life slightly harder

The code would be a lot simpler if all input was done through stdin