gocat is a modern, interactive terminal tool for viewing and editing Go game records in SGF (Smart Game Format). It offers a powerful, keyboard-driven interface to navigate, annotate, and modify game records directly from your terminal, making it ideal for Go players and reviewers.

Install gocat via Homebrew:

brew tap hzhang08/gocat
brew install gocat

Install gocat via Cargo:

cargo install gocat

1. Update version in Cargo.toml and commit
2. Run cargo publish --dry-run
3. Run cargo publish
4. Check out main branch on Mac
5. Make sure rust has architecture x86_64-apple-darwin and aarch64-apple-darwin installed, by running rustup target list
6. Run cargo build --target x86_64-apple-darwin --release and cargo build --target aarch64-apple-darwin --release
7. go to target/x86_64-apple-darwin/release and target/aarch64-apple-darwin/release directories and run tar -czvf gocat-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz gocat and tar -czvf gocat-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz gocat
8. To get sha256 of the tar files, run shasum -a 256 gocat-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz and shasum -a 256 gocat-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
9. Go to Github gocat repository and create a new release with the tar files
10. Go to homebrew-gocat repository, update Formula/gocat.rb with the new version and sha256 sums
11. Done

To launch the interactive SGF viewer/editor:

gocat <your_file.sgf>

Replace <your_file.sgf> with the path to your SGF file.

• q Quit
• n / → Next move
• p / ← Previous move
• ] Next commented move
• [ Previous commented move
• g Goto move number
• m Modify current move
• / Search for coordinate
• c Add/Edit move comment
• t Add/Edit triangles
• i Insert new move
• x Remove current move
• h Show this help
• Esc/Enter Close help or input dialogs