LinuxLinks.com
Newbies What Next ? News Forums Calendar

Search





News Sections
Home
General News (3972/0)
Reviews (626/0)
Press Releases (464/0)
Distributions (187/0)
Software (741/0)
Hardware (520/0)
Security (192/0)
Tutorials (320/0)
Off Topic (180/0)


User Functions
Username:

Password:

Don't have an account yet? Sign up as a New User


Events
There are no upcoming events




WeeChat

WeeChat

WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light IRC client for many operating systems. Everything can be done using a keyboard.

The software is highly customizable and extensible with plugins and scripts.

Apart from the usual featureset of modern IRC clients, WeeChat provides incremental text search in buffers, aspell support, a smart hotlist, scripting support for many languages (Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl), FIFO pipes for remote control and support for multiple charsets.

 WeeChat 0.3.4

Price
Free to download

Size
1.3MB
License

GNU GPL v3

Developer
FlashCode, kolter and contributors

Website
www.weechat.org

System Requirements
libruby 1.8
ncurses

Support Sites:
Documentation, FAQ, Plugins, Wiki, Forums, Development Blog, Savannah Project Page, Mailing Lists

Selected Reviews:
The Apps.org

Features include:

  • Connection:
    • Multi-servers connection, with no limit
    • Soft, background connection
    • IPv6 support
    • SSL support
    • Proxy support
    • Auto-reconnection
  • Nicklist
  • Smart hotlist
  • Infobar with highlight notification
  • Horizontal and vertical split
  • Smart "hotlist" in status bar: partial or full names of channels with activity
  • Double charset support (decode/encode)
  • DCC support: files and chats
  • FIFO pipe for remote control
  • Double charset support: one for decoding, one for encoding messages (global and by server/channel)
  • UTF-u support
  • Status and infobar
  • Lag indicator
  • 256 colors support, with unlimited number of nick colors
  • Color for away nicks
  • Auto completion for nicks, commands and args
  • Command alias
  • IRC procy
  • Redirection of IRC commands
  • Command / notify
  • Modifier plugin
  • Auto save chats to files
  • Highly customizable with a dynamic setup
  • Extensible with Perl, Python, Ruby & Lua scripts
  • Plugin API:
    • Custom buffers, nicklists and bars/items
    • Hooks: commands, timers, files/sockets, modifiers, completion
    • Configuration files with custom sections/options
  • Large range of plugins available including alias, demo, fifo, irc, jabber, logger, notify, tcl, xfer, relay
  • Wide range of scripts: weeget.py (scripts manager), buffers.pl (sidebar with list of buffers), jabber.py (jabber/XMPP protocol), go.py (quick jump to buffers), iset.pl (set options interactively), weetris.pl (tetris-like game), mastermind.pl etc
  • Compliant with RFC 1459,2810,2811,2812,2813
  • Available in many languages

Return to IRC Clients Home Page

Bookmark and Share


Last Updated Saturday, April 09 2011 @ 07:21 AM EDT



Group Tests
All Group Tests

Top Free Software
6 Office Suites
6 Lean Desktops
6 Desktop Search
9 Project Management
9 Groupware Apps
14 File Managers
10 Databases
21 Backup Tools
21 DVD Tools
21 Window Managers
21 Productivity Tools
21 Financial Tools
21 Text Editors
21 Video Emulators
21 Home Emulators
42 Graphics Apps
6 CAD Apps
42 Scientific Apps
10 Web Browsers
42 Email Apps
12 Instant Messaging
10 IRC Clients
7 Twitter Clients
12 News Aggregators
11 VoIP Apps
11 Remote Display Apps
9 BitTorrent Apps
42 Best Games
42 More Games
21 More Games
42 Hot Games Part 1
42 Hot Games Part 2
42 Hot Games Part 3
10 Chess Apps
9 Educational Games
42 Audio Apps
42 Video Apps
6 Screencasting Apps
80 Security Apps
9 System Monitoring
6 Family History Apps
11 PDF Tools
6 Music Servers
6 Collection Managers
7 Calculator Apps
8 Geometry Apps
Free Console Apps
14 Multimedia
Programming
8 Compilers
9 IDEs
9 Debuggers
7 Revision Control Apps
6 Doc Generators
'Free' Proprietary
21 Closed-Source Apps
Top Commercial Apps
42 Games
Free Web Software
21 Web CMS
14 Wiki Engines
8 Blog Apps
6 eCommerce Apps
5 Human Resource Apps
10 ERP
10 CRM
6 Data Warehouse Apps
8 Business Intelligence

All Group Tests

Other Articles
Migrating from Windows
Back up your data
Distribution Guide
Distro Portal Pages
20 Free Linux Books
Running Linux Under Windows


Older Stories
Wednesday 12/07
  • Top Free Android Scientific Apps (0)
  • Top Free Android Web Browsers (0)

  • Monday 11/07
  • Top Free Android Photo Tools (0)

  • Wednesday 11/02
  • Top Free Android Email Tools (0)

  • Monday 10/24
  • Top Free Android SSH Tools (0)

  • Sunday 10/23
  • Top Free Android Audio Players (0)

  • Friday 10/14
  • Top Free Android E-book Readers (0)

  • Monday 10/10
  • 8 Best Free Linux Music Notation Software (0)

  • Sunday 10/02
  • 6 Commercial Android Video Players (0)

  • Tuesday 09/20
  • 10 Best Free Android File Managers (0)


  • Vote

    What do you find MOST attractive about Open Source software?

    Amount of customization
    Security
    Freedom provided
    Speed of development
    Quality
    Multiple versions
    Cost
    Potential to contribute
    Ability to modify code
    Results
    2986 votes | 2 comments

    Built with GeekLog and phpBB
    Comments to the webmaster are welcome
    Copyright 2009 LinuxLinks.com - All rights reserved