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Favorite IRC client? (self.irc)

submitted 2 years ago by lntl to c/irc

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My guess is that most people use Irssi or Weechat. Would be surprised to hear if anyone uses ircii or mirc, and the only way to find out is to ask.

What's your favorite client?

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[–] igemnace 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, I use weechat.

But in the interest of sharing something new: I do also like ii, which is a minimal filesystem-based IRC client. To tail a channel's messages, for example, you could do

tail -f #vim/out

Then to send a message,

echo 'Hello, world!' > #vim/in

Fun for the first five minutes just pulling together a makeshift IRC client with tmux panes and the above, but then you realize the depth of the iceberg with its scriptability with standard Unix pipelines. Tail out into a perl script that pipes back into in for example and you have a bot.