Awesome
IRCCloud Terminal Client
Do you miss the R(etro) in IRC? Still have dreams about BitchX? Who doesn't! For all of this to work you need an IRCCloud account. If you're not familiar with IRCCloud, then I think you should check it out!
Navigation
- <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Space</kbd>: Select channel
- <kbd>Tab</kbd>: Auto-complete nicks
- <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>b</kbd>: Switch to channel with most recent activity
- <kbd>PgUp</kbd>/<kbd>PgDown</kbd>: Scroll in the channel buffer
- <kbd>Home</kbd>, <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>a</kbd>: Move to the beginning of the line
- <kbd>End</kbd>, <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>e</kbd>: Move to the end of the line
- <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>k</kbd>: Delete from the cursor to the end of the line
- <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>w</kbd>: Delete the last word before the cursor
- <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>u</kbd>: Delete the entire line
Configuration
A configuration file is automatically generated if you don't already have one, typically the first time you start the client.
The file is created in ~/.config/irccloud
. Add the username and password you use for IRCCloud. You can also add trigger
words (like your own nick) to get special notifications on channels where those trigger words are mentioned.
There's also a last_chan
field which will be the first channel you see when you start your client,
this is set to the channel you were viewing the last time you closed the client. This way you always get
back to where you last left off!
You can also set the only_messages
flag to true
if you don't want to see join/leave etc.
messages in your chat buffers.
username: your_username_here/email
password: secret_password_here
last_chan: '#gonuts'
triggers:
- cakes
- my_own_nick
- cat.gif
only_messages: false
Installing
go get -u github.com/termoose/irccloud
Make sure $GOPATH/bin
is added to the $PATH
variable. Then run:
irccloud
On the first run a config file will be generated for you in ~/.config/irccloud
, update it with your IRCCloud username and password.
If you want to specify a custom config file you can do so with -c
:
irccloud -c /my/custom/config.yaml
Homebrew
brew install termoose/tap/irccloud-cli
Flatpak (Linux)
Probably soon
TODO
Get text input working, return = send text to channelMake sure channel join opens a new bufferProperly quit on Control+C, so it doesn't mess up the terminalNew query window opened for new private messagesShow the latest active channels, sorted list of oldest to newest activity- Don't quit when we lose websocket connection, display "Reconnecting" dialogue and retry until Ctrl+C
- Create a loading bar based on
numbuffers
inoob_include
- Make auto-completion on nicknames in the current channel buffer
- Add list of trigger names to config, include own nick by default?
- Special highlight for channels with trigger events in event bar
Show timestamps on chat messagesSupport nick change messagesShow non-message data in chat like join/leave events- Find out how to change channel view with alt+Fn or something similar
- Show operator/voice status in channel member list
- Get and show fancy ANSI splash art, BitchX style!
- Should we handle multiple servers? Does irccloud do this? How? (it kinda works)
- Add support for IRCCloud file upload
- Get image preview in terminal, ascii-render fallback in unsupported terminal
- Support IRCCloud's pastebin service, query users with very large text inputs if they want to use pastebin service