This document is a WORK IN PROGRESS.
This is just a quick personal cheat sheet: treat its contents with caution!
WeeChat¶
WeeChat is a highly extendable and feature rich IRC client.
Reference(s)
Table of contents¶
Avoid dotfile madness¶
Prior to installation, make sure you stay in control of your home directory.
Prerequisite(s)
See how to handle WeeChat related dotfiles.
Install¶
TODO
Config¶
TODO
Use¶
TODO
sudo pacman -S weechat
sudo pacman -S weechat-matrix
Optional Deps : aspell: spellchecker support
guile: support for guile scripts [installed]
lua: support for lua scripts
perl: support for perl scripts [installed]
python: support for python scripts [installed]
ruby: support for ruby scripts
tcl: support for tcl scripts
In matrix:
/script load /usr/share/weechat/python/weechat-matrix.py
/set matrix.server.matrix_org.username johndoe
/set matrix.server.matrix_org.password jd_is_awesome
automatically load the script:
$ ln -s ../matrix.py ~/.weechat/python/autoload
Automatically connect to the server
/set matrix.server.matrix_org.autoconnect on
If everything works, save the configuration
/save
For using a custom (not matrix.org) matrix server:
Add your custom server to the plugin:
/matrix server add myserver myserver.org
Add the appropriate credentials
/set matrix.server.myserver.username johndoe
/set matrix.server.myserver.password jd_is_awesome
If everything works, save the configuration
/save
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