WeeChat

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WeeChat
Software Details:
Version: 1.9 updated
Upload Date: 2 Oct 17
Developer: FlashCode
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 58

Rating: 3.5/5 (Total Votes: 2)

WeeChat (also known as Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is an open source, extensible, cross-platform, fast, modular and lightweight chat client specifically designed for the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) protocol.

It’s extendable through plugins

Key features include a modular and lightweight core with support for additional plugins, multi-protocol architecture, support for multiple languages, support for UTF-8 character encodings, support for multi-servers connections, as well as support for DCC (Direct Client-to-Client) chats and file transfers.

It’s fully compliant with several RFCs

It can be easily extended with the C, Tcl, Ruby, Scheme, Python, Lua or Perl programming languages, and fully compliant with RFCs 1459, 2810, 2811, 2812 and 2813. Complete and comprehensive documentation is available on the project’s website.

Has numerous other attractive features

Among other features, we can mention support for IPv6, SSL and proxy servers, a scripts manager, mouse support, 256 colors, FIFO pipe, built-in spell checker, in-place upgrades, customizable bars, vertical and horizontal split, colors for nicks and away nicks, custom CTCP replies, lag indicator, SASL authentication, anti-flood functionality, incremental text search, and dynamic filtering of lines.

It’s customizable and extensible through scripts

In WeeChat, everything can be done with the keyboard. It is customizable and extensible through scripts. The application comes with many GUI (Graphical User Interfaces) front-ends, available in GTK, Qt and Ncurses.

Supports a wide-range of platforms

This is a multi-platform program written from scratch in the C programming language and designed to support a wide-range of platforms, including GNU/Linux, BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD), GNU Hurd, Mac OS X and

Windows (Cygwin).

Availability and supported architectures

On GNU/Linux, the WeeChat application can be downloaded as source archives, as well as binary packages for the Ubuntu Linux operating system, supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. It can be easily installed on any Linux distribution from the default software repositories.

What is new in this release:

  • improve speed of nicklist bar item callback
  • add auto scroll of buflist bar with new option buflist.look.auto_scroll
  • add option buflist.format.name
  • add variables ${format_name}, ${current_buffer} and ${merged} in buflist
  • display a warning in buflist when the script buffers.pl is loaded
  • add server/channel pointers in trigger IRC callbacks
  • add API functions config_option_get_string and hdata_compare
  • fix bind of Space key
  • many bugs fixed.

What is new in version 1.4:

  • add a parent name in options, display inherited values if null in /set output
  • add option weechat.look.paste_auto_add_newline
  • add /fifo command
  • track real names using extended-join and WHO (IRC)
  • add support of SNI (Server Name Indication) in SSL connection to IRC server
  • add support of IRC "cap-notify" capability
  • add IRC command /cap
  • add hex dump of messages in raw buffer when debug is enabled for irc plugin
  • add option relay.irc.backlog_since_last_message
  • add option script.scripts.download_timeout
  • add scripts to build Debian packages
  • many bugs fixed.

What is new in version 1.3:

  • keep scroll after interactive search in buffer
  • add optional confirmation on /upgrade
  • add signal "signal_sighup"
  • add IRC options irc.color.topic_current, irc.network.channel_encode
  • many bugs fixed.

What is new in version 1.0.1:

  • core: fix crash on buffer close when option weechat.look.hotlist_remove is set to "merged" (closes #199)
  • core: fix highlight of IRC action messages when option irc.look.nick_mode is set to "action" or "both" (closes #206)
  • core: fix compilation of plugin API functions (macros) when compiler optimizations are enabled (closes #200)
  • core: fix window/buffer pointers used in command /eval
  • core: fix modifier "weechat_print": discard only one line when several lines are displayed in same message (closes #171)
  • api: fix bug in function hdata_move when absolute value of count is greater than 1
  • tests: fix build of tests when the build directory is outside source tree (closes #178)
  • tests: fix memory leak in tests launcher
  • aspell: fix compilation with Enchant < 1.6.0 (closes #192)
  • aspell: fix crash with command "/aspell addword" if no word is given (closes #164, closes #165)
  • irc: fix type of value stored in hashtable when joining a channel (closes #211)
  • guile: fix compilation with Guile < 2.0.4 (closes #198)
  • perl: fix detection of Perl >= 5.20 with autotools
  • relay: fix send of signals "relay_client_xxx" (closes #214)
  • script: fix crash on "/script update" if a script detail is displayed in buffer (closes #177)
  • trigger: do not allow any changes on a trigger when it is currently running (closes #189)
  • trigger: fix regex used in default triggers to hide passwords ("\S" is not supported on *BSD) (closes #172)

What is new in version 1.0:

  • plugin "trigger": Swiss Army knife for WeeChat (replaces "rmodifier" plugin)
  • plugin "exec": execute external commands (replaces script "shell.py")
  • bare display: easy click on long URLs and text selection with mouse
  • support of environment variables in /set command
  • hidden buffers
  • negated tags in filters
  • toggle of filters in specific buffers
  • flexible conditions for adding/removing buffers in hotlist
  • text search in buffers with free content
  • support of wildcard "*" inside masks
  • support of nested variables in evaluated expressions
  • tag with host in IRC messages displayed
  • support of "away-notify" IRC capability
  • IRC commands: /allpv, /remove, /unquiet
  • bar items: buffer_short_name, irc_nick_modes
  • unit tests
  • many bugs fixed.

What is new in version 0.4.3:

  • new command /print
  • logical and/or for tags in /filter and hook_print
  • gaps in buffer numbers
  • support of italic text
  • new options to customize default text search in buffers
  • use of IRC monitor command for /notify (if available on server)
  • new IRC server option "ssl_fingerprint"
  • new option to smart-filter IRC mode messages
  • new option for default IRC ban mask
  • support of IPv6 for DCC chat/file
  • auto check CRC32 of files received with DCC
  • many bugs fixed.

What is new in version 0.4.2:

  • rename binary from "weechat-curses" to "weechat" (with symbolic link "weechat-curses" for compatibility)
  • add secured data (encryption of passwords or private data), new command /secure, new file sec.conf
  • search of regular expression in buffer with text emphasis, in prefixes, messages or both
  • add option "scroll_beyond_end" for command /window
  • add optional buffer context in bar items (for example to display bitlbee nicklist in a root bar)
  • new options weechat.look.hotlist_{prefix|suffix}
  • new option weechat.look.key_bind_safe to prevent any key binding error from user
  • new option weechat.network.proxy_curl to use a proxy when downloading URLs with curl
  • display day change message dynamically
  • support of wildcards in IRC commands (de)op/halfop/voice
  • new option irc.look.notice_welcome_redirect to redirect channel welcome notices to the channel buffer
  • new option irc.look.nick_color_hash: new hash algorithm to find nick colors (variant of djb2)
  • add info about things defined by a script in the detailed view of script (/script show)
  • support of "enchant" library in aspell plugin
  • many bugs fixed.

What is new in version 0.4.1:

  • multiple layouts support
  • nick prefix/suffix are now dynamic (and managed by core instead of irc plugin)
  • unmask irc join if nick speaks some minutes after the join
  • new option irc.look.display_join_message to disable some messages after joining a channel
  • new option irc.look.pv_buffer to automatically merge private buffers
  • add support of UHNAMES
  • add DH-AES encryption method for SASL
  • multiple irc servers allowed on same port for irc protocol in relay plugin
  • add WebSocket server support (RFC 6455) in relay plugin (for irc and weechat protocols)
  • send nicklist difference in relay plugin (weechat protocol)
  • add control of autoload for scripts
  • optimizations in aspell plugin
  • many bugs fixed.

What is new in version 0.4.0:

  • add option "diff" for command /set, display default values in output of /set
  • add color support in prefix options
  • add command /eval, use expression in conditions for bars
  • connect by default with IPv6 to servers with fallback to IPv4
  • add aspell suggestions
  • add support of tags in irc messages and "server-time" capability
  • add irc command /quiet
  • add support of IPv6 in relay plugin
  • add backlog for irc protocol in relay plugin
  • display remote IP address for DCC chat/file in xfer plugin
  • add git version in build
  • many bugs fixed.

What is new in version 0.3.9.2:

  • Version 0.3.9.2 is available, it fixes a security problem: untrusted command for function hook_process could lead to execution of commands, because of shell expansions.
  • Upgrade is highly recommended for all users.

What is new in version 0.3.9.1:

  • This release fixes a security problem (buffer overflow when decoding IRC colors in strings). Upgrade is recommended for all users.

What is new in version 0.3.9:

  • add plugin "script" (replacement of weeget.py and script.pl)
  • add support of SSL in relay plugin
  • add color for offline nicks
  • add system resource limits for WeeChat process
  • add zoom on merged buffer (default key: alt+"x")
  • add "Day changed to" in logger backlog
  • add command line option "-r" (or "--run-command") to run command(s) after startup of WeeChat
  • add option "swap" for command /buffer
  • generate alternate IRC nicks dynamically (when all nicks are already in use)
  • fix rejoin of channel protected IRC channels
  • fix freeze in irc and relay plugins with sockets
  • fix color of long lines (displayed on more than one line on screen) under FreeBSD
  • allow update for some variables of hdata
  • add japanese user's guide, scripting guide and tester's guide
  • many bugs fixed.

Requirements:

  • Ncurses

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