#Weechat install script how to#
#Weechat install script password#

It should be noted that support from the WeeChat developer is only provided for the latest release and the current development version. You will need to install the weechat package. WeeChat has UTF-8 support and may use multiple character sets for encoding and decoding messages. It allows for multiple connections to multiple servers. It is designed with extensibility in mind, featuring a wide array of options, plug-ins (such as spell checking) and several scripting languages. set is a modern IRC client, based on a powerful text-driven interface. On the weechat buffer you will see the client connecting and disconnecting, so is a good way to debug connection issues. Or just be smart and setup the SSL version. We can tell weechat to load this sslcert without restarting by running:Īnd here’s the gotcha, you will fail to connect via SSL until you create an instance of the weechat relay protocal (listening socket) with ssl in the name of the protocol: NOTE: To change or see where weechat is looking for the cert is to see what the value of ‘_cert_key’ or just do a:Â /set relay.* Openssl req -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout relay.pem -x509 -days 365 -out relay.pem However, that’s great for a test, but we probably want SSL, so we need a SSL cert:

#Weechat install script password#

NOTE: 8001 is the port, so you can change this, and the password to whatever you want.

I first simply followed WeechatAndroid’s guide. But there was a gotcha, which is why I’m writing about it. Now that you have some things configured lets setup the relay script/plugin.

#Weechat install script how to#

There are plenty of places that can tell you how to configure it connect to freenode etc. But go, means you can easily jump, and if you add a go.py keybinding:Īn will lauch it, so you can type away, is really easy.īut we are probably getting away from our selves. Which will then allow you to use your mouse to select a buffer, although this will break normal copy and pasting, so maybe not worth the effort, but thought I’d mention it.Īlthough of course normally you’d use the weechat keybindings to access them, to go to a buffer, or to goto the last active buffer. But turns out you can also turn on mouse support with: urlserver.py – automatically shorens long urls so they don’t break if they overlap over a line.go.py – allows you to quickly search the buffers.– makes a left side window listing the buffers (or channels).Noting that there are heaps of scripts to install, but lets explain these: script install Â go.py colorize_nicks.pyÂ urlserver.py Now while we are inside weechat, lets first start by installing/activating some scripts: So we’ll start by running weechat (inside a tmux or screen): I’ll assume you have installed weechat in whatever distro your using. However, as you’ll always want to be connected, it’s nice to know how to change configuration while it’s running… you know, so you can play. So really all you need to do is place or edit the config file directly.

Once you start weechat, you can simply configure things, when you do, it writes it to its config file. Mostly gleened from various internet sources.

So in case any of you wanted to do the same, this is my current tmux + weechat setup. One such client is WeechatAndroid, which in itself isn’t a IRC client, but actually a client that can talk to a already running weechat… This is exactly what I want. To my surprise weechat has a /relay command which allows other clients to connect. Many years ago I used weechat, it was awesome, so I thought why not go and have a play. But I’ve been cleaning up my cloud accounts, and thought of the good old days when you’d simply run a console IRC client in screen or tmux. But for IRC, I have been using quassel, as it gives me a client on my phone.