Any IRC clients similar to Opera's old native one?
reddit / irc

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Kizzycocoa · 2014-04-27 00:00

I recently dumped Opera due to it's direction, and my having to use
their old browser for a few years due to this direction.

I've switched to Firefox, but their chatzilla addon simply doesn't cut
it for me. I'm looking for a free multi-user simple IRC client, which
remembers channels for each user, much like how Opera's has done it.

I don't suppose anyone here can help me?

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mjh215 · 2014-04-27 02:45

I'm not sure if it remembers channels/users but I've been working on
switching to HexChat, I liked the feel of it for some similarities in
formating to Opera...

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[deleted] · 2014-04-27 06:29

What operating system are you using? I'm assuming Windows.

Have you tried [Hexchat](http://hexchat.github.io/)?

what about [mIRC](http://www.mirc.com/)?

Both expandable in the fact that Hexchat supports Python\Perl, and
mIRC supports its own scriptable language.

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loozerr · 2014-04-27 14:24

Pidgin's irc function is quite similar, but I think Hexchat would be a
better choice.

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Kizzycocoa · 2014-04-27 16:55

Thanks everyone! Hexchat seems to be going very well!


I only have 2 questions about it.


1) how can I have multiple users on one network?

2)is there a way to save a list of rooms without auto-connecting to
them?


thanks again!! =)

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Kizzycocoa · 2014-04-27 18:49

Ok, I found out how to do multiple network users! the only issue I
have is persistance of listing channels which I do not want to auto-
join. is there any way to save these channels in hexchat?

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aftli · 2014-04-27 18:51

I just learned of this HexChat. From their homepage:

> IRC client based on XChat, but unlike XChat it’s completely free for
both Windows and Unix-like systems.

Am I missing something? I thought XChat was free, and it's open
source. I don't see any way to buy it from their site.

EDIT: Nevermind, [figured it
out](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XChat#License_change). I wasn't
aware of that.

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aperson · 2014-04-27 23:27

xchat is also effectively dead.  No recent development at all.
Hexchat is actively developed (heck, I donated to get a feature into
the program).

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TingPing · 2014-04-28 17:59

We already talked in [#hexchat](irc://chat.freenode.net/hexchat) about
this but for anybody else curious here is a script for saving
bookmarks: [bookmarks.py](https://github.com/TingPing/plugins/blob/mas
ter/HexChat/bookmarks.py)