Want Very Lightweight No-Frills IRC Client reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- vellauno · 2015-09-10 00:10 I typically use mIRC at home, but for my Windows 7 computer at work I want a lightweight, standalone, no-frills IRC client that can basically only connect to a network and join a channel for chat only. No DCC, no scripting, no channel management, no frills wanted. The only things I am interested in are stability and reliability. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Encoded-Writer · 2015-09-10 00:37 https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/circ/bebigdkelppomhhjaaianni iifjbgocn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- farded · 2015-09-10 00:38 irssi sounds like what you want. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fastolph · 2015-09-10 00:42 Text only terminal applications might be what you want then. They still do a lot but most of it won't get in the way. Check out weechat and irssi. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- vellauno · 2015-09-10 00:52 I forgot to mention, work computer is running Windows 7. But I can try Cygwin. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2015-09-10 00:52 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wobblyweasel · 2015-09-10 02:06 weechat FTFY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jepatrick · 2015-09-10 05:45 ~~weechat~~ irssi, FTFY. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- vellauno · 2015-09-10 06:30 In the end, I went with irssi. Seems to be doing the trick. Now I am just trying to figure out how to change the info in the status bars. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rgzzo · 2015-09-10 06:40 [irssi themes](http://www.irssi.org/themes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wobblyweasel · 2015-09-10 10:38 but why? no nice colors, no script repo, no nice mobile client, hell it can't even properly cut outgoing utf-8 messages so your text becomes mojibake. why? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- StoleAGoodUsername · 2015-09-10 11:52 > lightweight no frills ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wobblyweasel · 2015-09-10 12:23 if you can notice performance difference between the two you are probably running on a calculator, and the feature set depends on what you choose to compile ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jepatrick · 2015-09-10 14:56 What are you talking about? There are plenty of nice themes for it, there is a script repo but vellauno said that they didn't want scripts, and yeah there is not mobile client, but ZNC works well and is a better option. As for Mojibake, it doesn't effect most English speaker. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wobblyweasel · 2015-09-10 15:36 Oh, right, i see now that they finally added support for more than 16 colors. Script repo? What's the command to install a script from the repo? ZNC is a very sad option, not to mention the looks of most mobile irc clients. As for "doesn't effect most English speakers"... But hey, why stop here? Vertical buffer list? Vertical splits? Bracketed paste? Mouse support? Filters? Especially the killer [smart filter](http://dev.weechat.org/post/2008/10/25/Smart-IRC-join-part- quit-message-filter). Does irssi even have a read marker? Anways, you didn't say why you'd choose irssi over weechat. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ZarkBit · 2015-09-10 16:18 Go with irssi. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jepatrick · 2015-09-10 21:40 > What's the command to install a script from the repo? curl mostly. I think the word you mean with Weechat is a script manager. And yes irssi doesn't have a script manager. If I want a feature I either look it up, or just write one. irssi does have mouse support. There are scripts for filters, smart filters, read markers etc. No support for vertical buffer list(which I wouldn't really use) or vertical splits (though I think there is a bounty for this), and bracketed paste mode is being developed from what I understand. I really do want to point out that the scripting API for weechat is superbad and a little on the terrifying scale of things. [Specifically this](https://weechat.org/files/doc/devel/weechat_scripting.en.html#po inters). Don't get me wrong, there are more options in weechat, and some features I wouldn't mind. But really I think the difference we have is a difference of prospective. Personally I would rather have a very simple client that I can extend to get only the feature set I want. It sounds like you would rather have a more feature packed chat client, which is completely acceptable. The reason why suggested irssi over weechat, was they were asking for "No DCC, no scripting, no channel management, no frills wanted". irssi is about as frill-less as it gets. Plus I don't want to suggest something that has a know issue with that may cause a seriously bad exploitation vector. Also, out of curiosity, what do you use bracketed paste for? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wobblyweasel · 2015-09-10 22:36 scripts.irssi.org is it? Using http:// for scripts in the era of free TSL certs is inexcusable. Yeah what you linked to is indeed a problem. If you are tinkering with weechat you keep it under ZNC. And the source of some things like buffers.pl is.. daunting. On the other hand, here's a lot of progress. On yet another hand, there are very few real devs out there. And you really can get weechat with no frills, it's really easy to turn it all off using cmake. As for bracketed paste... I don't really remember but I thought it was essential when I turned it on. Something about not pasting walls of text by accident and slow connections.. There were some flaws with time-based accidental big paste detection. P.S. I was one of the biggest opponents of the vertical buffer list and I endured for months but in the end— ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jepatrick · 2015-09-11 02:08 Yeah, scripts.irssi.org is a mess. I usually just hit up github. But yeah weechat is growing well. It has a different design paragon then one I like, but its a good app. As for bracketed paste. Yeah generally there just a terminal code that is passed in at the beginning and end of a script. Once its in irssi, I was going to go a head a write a plugin to automatically post pastes to gist and paste the link, but its no there. I was just wondering what other people are using it for. I'm just used to pasting things are more then 1 line into a bin of some sort. Anywho, I'm going to work on a side project. Have a good one wobbly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- vellauno · 2015-09-14 04:35 So I installed irssi (which is exactly what I was looking for, thanks by the way) and was running it in cygwin... then I thought to myself 'all I do on this machine is browse the internet and type stuff up in word processors, so why I am bogging down my system with bloated windows junk?'. I then proceeded to uninstall Windows and put in LXLE instead. IRC clients (along with all my work really) run much smoother now. Problems solved =P