WeeChat
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WeeChat 0.3.2 with the default configuration and the buffers.pl script in use
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| Developer(s) | Sébastien Helleu |
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| Initial release | June 26, 2003 |
| Stable release | 1.5 (May 1, 2016[1]) [±] |
| Preview release | 1.6-dev[2] / Nightly build |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | GNU/Linux, BSD, OS X, GNU Hurd, Microsoft Windows (using Cygwin) |
| Size | 17.2 MB |
| Available in | 7 languages[3] |
| Type | IRC client |
| License | GPLv3 |
| Website | weechat |
WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a free and open-source Internet Relay Chat client, which is designed to be light and fast. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License 3 and has been developed since 2003.
WeeChat comes with a default ncurses interface, but it is possible to use other interfaces (e.g. Glowing Bear,[4] a web frontend).
Features
WeeChat's features include:[5]
- IPv6
- SSL
- Proxy connections
- The screen can be split up to display multiple windows at the same time.
- Incremental text search
- Aspell support for spell checking
- Scripting support for many languages (Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, Scheme with GNU Guile, Javascript with V8 (JavaScript engine))
- FIFO pipes for remote control
- Support for multiple character encodings
- User-defined aliases and shortkeys
Supported platforms
WeeChat supports most platforms and operating systems, including GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Debian GNU/Hurd, HP-UX, Solaris, QNX, Haiku, and Microsoft Windows (via the Cygwin library and API).[6]
Binary packages and builds of WeeChat are available for installation as well as the source code for self compilation.[7] This includes most Linux distributions, such as Debian,[8] Ubuntu,[9] Mandriva Linux,[10] Fedora,[11] Gentoo Linux,[12] Arch Linux,[13] as well as FreeBSD via the FreeBSD Ports system.[14]
Reception
In his review for Free Software Magazine, Martin Brown graded WeeChat with 43 points out of a possible 50, noting that "At first glance, WeeChat is not as friendly or easy to use as Rhapsody", but, "There’s a lot of hidden power built into the application", including Python, Perl, Ruby and Lua extensions which can be selected at installation.[15]
See also
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References
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External links
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- Github page
- Savannah project page (deprecated)
- WeeChat at Freecode
- #weechat connect on freenode
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- Official website missing URL
- Internet Relay Chat clients
- Free Internet Relay Chat clients
- OS X Internet Relay Chat clients
- Unix Internet Relay Chat clients
- Windows Internet Relay Chat clients
- Free software programmed in C
- Cross-platform software
- Lua-scriptable software
- Software that uses ncurses
