WeeChat
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| Developer(s) | Sébastien Helleu |
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| Initial release | June 26, 2003 |
| Stable release | 4.4.0 (August 17, 2024[1]) [±] |
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| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux Unix-like Mac OS X/Darwin BeOS/Haiku Microsoft Windows[2] |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Size | 1.1 MB |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | IRC client |
| License | GNU General Public License 3 |
| Website | weechat.flashtux.org |
WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a console IRC client, which is fast and light, it is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License 3. Everything can be done with a keyboard. It is customizable and extensible with plugins and scripts.
Features
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.
Development version
The development version is an almost complete rewrite of WeeChat, in progress since 2007. It has many new features, such as multiple protocol support (which?), custom filtering by tags or regex (with smart join/part/quit filter), a completely new plugin API, custom bars with custom items, buffers with free content, support for merging multiple buffers[3], nick grouping in the nicklist, and a new display engine which is faster than the previous one[4].
Supported platforms
WeeChat supports a wide variety of platforms and operating systems, including Linux, various BSD derivations (FreeBSD, NetBSD,OpenBSD), Mac OS X, Debian GNU/Hurd / Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, HP-UX, Solaris, QNX, OpenBeOS and Microsoft Windows (via the Cygwin library and API)[2].
Ready-to-use packages and builds of WeeChat are available for a variety of platforms and operating systems.[5] It is also distributed with many Linux distributions, including Debian,[6] Ubuntu,[7] Mandriva Linux,[8] Fedora,[9] Gentoo,[10] and Arch Linux.[11] WeeChat is also available to FreeBSD users via the FreeBSD Ports system.[12]
References
- ^ "Version 4.4.0". weechat.org. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
- ^ a b "WeeChat: Supported Operating Systems". 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
- ^ http://dev.weechat.org/post/2009/06/10/Merge-of-buffers
- ^ http://wiki.flashtux.org/wiki/WeeChat_0.3.0
- ^ "WeeChat: Downloads". 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
- ^ "Debian: WeeChat packages". Retrieved 2009-04-14.
- ^ "Ubuntu: WeeChat packages". Retrieved 2009-04-14.
- ^ "Mandriva: WeeChat packages". Retrieved 2009-04-14.
- ^ "Fedora: WeeChat packages". Retrieved 2009-04-14.
- ^ "Gentoo: WeeChat packages". Retrieved 2009-04-14.
- ^ "Arch Linux: WeeChat packages". Retrieved 2009-04-14.
- ^ "FreeBSD Ports: WeeChat". Retrieved 2009-04-14.
Further reading
- Review of WeeChat
- Article in Yalm magazine, written by Thomas Rudolph (in German)
