Irssi

Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.

Being a fullscreen, termcap based client, with many features, Irssi is easily extensible through scripts and modules.

Unlike some text mode IRC clients, Irssi is not based on the ircII code, and was written from scratch.

The software is written in the C programming language and in normal operation uses a text-mode user interface.

Irssi 0.8.15

Price Free to download Size 0.9MB License GNU GPL Developer Timo Sirainen Website www.irssi.org System Requirements Perl 5 ncurses Support Sites: Documentation and Tutorials, A Guide to Efficiently Using Irssi and Screen, An Illustrated Guide to Split Windows in Irssi, Scripts, Settings, Irssi Scripts Selected Reviews: The Apps.org

Features include:

• Autologging - will log channes, queries and special windows
• Modular Formatting and themes
• Configurable keybindings - allows users to modify the default keybindings and create your own so you can customize your client
• Paste detection - tries to detect when you are pasting large amounts of text, by looking at the speed that characters are entered
• Perl scripting
• Irssi-proxy - plugin which allows to bind a port to each IRC server you are connected to
• Transparent upgrading
• Recode support

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Last Updated Monday, October 15 2012 @ 12:06 PM EDT