Weechat : a user friendly IRC client
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| Software version | 0.3.8 |
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| Operating System | Debian 7 |
| Website | Weechat Website |
| Last Update | 17/07/2013 |
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1 Introduction
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!
2 Installation
The installation part is really easy :
 aptitude
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aptitude install weechat-curses |
To launch it :
| weechat-ncurses
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weechat-ncurses |
3 Configuration
3.1 Freenode configuration
If you want to store your freenode configuration, edit and adapt this configuration file :
 ~/.weechat/irc.conf
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[server_default] [...] nicks = "username1,username2,username3" password = "pass" realname = "realname" username = "username" [...] |
3.2 Autoconnect to channels
If you want to autoconnect to a specific channel :
| ~/.weechat/irc.conf
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[server_default] [...] autoconnect = on autojoin = "#channel1,#channel2" [...] |
And if channel 1 require a password for instance :
| ~/.weechat/irc.conf
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[server_default] [...] autoconnect = on autojoin = "#channel1,#channel2 password" [...] |
