Weechat: A User Friendly IRC Client

Introduction link

WeeChat is a fast, light and extensible chat client. It runs on many platforms (including Linux, BSD and Mac OS).

WeeChat is:

• modular: a lightweight core with plugins around
• multi-protocols: IRC and Jabber (other soon)
• extensible: C plugins and scripts (Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl and Scheme)
• free software: released under GPLv3 license
• fully documented: user’s guide, API, FAQ,.. translated in many languages

Development is very active, and bug fixes are very fast!

Installation link

The installation part is really easy:

  aptitude install weechat-curses
  

To launch it:

  weechat-ncurses
  

Configuration link

Freenode configuration link

If you want to store your freenode configuration, edit and adapt this configuration file (~/.weechat/irc.conf):

  [server_default]
[...]
nicks = "username1,username2,username3"
password = "pass"
realname = "realname"
username = "username"
[...]
  

Autoconnect to channels link

If you want to autoconnect to a specific channel (~/.weechat/irc.conf):

  [server_default]
[...]
autoconnect = on
autojoin = "#channel1,#channel2"
[...]
  

And if channel 1 requires a password for instance (~/.weechat/irc.conf):

  [server_default]
[...]
autoconnect = on
autojoin = "#channel1,#channel2 password"
[...]
  

References link

• Weechat Website