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I'd like to hear some pros and cons for the different clients!
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First of all: there's a shitload of IRC clients out there, so you might want to try a few before settling on one. A quick survey of #diku reveals that used IRC clients include irssi, xchat, ERC (for Emacs), WeeChat, penis (although I'd go out on a limb and guess that "decko_" spoofs his CTCP version reply), mIRC and Colloquy. Graphic
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I'd personally recommend WeeChat. If you're adventurous, have a look at Bitlbee (other chat networks -> IRC gateway, http://bitlbee.org/). For a more complete list of IRC clients, have a look at the Wikipedia article "Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients". |
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There exist only one IRC client that is worth working with: irssi. Everything else happens to be crap as soon as you grow the number of networks and the number of channels. Place your irssi session in a screen or tmux on a long-running host and you are set. People have scaled irssi to some 20-30 networks and 500+ channels. And it copes with it. Many other clients stop before that. Irssi does require some setup though - but if you run Xmonad you can't use that argument against it! http://quadpoint.org/articles/irssi is a decent introduction. Be sure to grab the hilightwin.pl script for Irssi. This allows you to have a separate split window in which all your highlight messages go to. It helps when your channel count grows above 10-20 or so. |
The "(Linux)" in the header should either be removed or set as a tag instead. Maybe add a "software" tag as well?
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