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.
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
- Mouse support
- Cursor mode (free movement of cursor on screen)
- Contexts for keys
- Split of outgoing IRC messages
- Color for offline nicks
- System resource limits for WeeChat process
- Available in many languages
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