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WeeChat - Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat |
WeeChat - Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat |
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WeeChat FAQ, 2003-09-19 |
WeeChat FAQ, 2003-10-27 |
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1- Compiling |
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1.1 I heard about many GUI for WeeChat. How can I compile/use them? |
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1.2 I can't compile WeeChat CVS. |
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2- Using WeeChat |
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2.1 Why using WeeChat ? Irssi and xchat are so good... |
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2.2 I've launched WeeChat, but I'm lost, what can I do? |
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2.3 How can I customize key bindings? |
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3- Development |
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3.1 How should I report bugs? |
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3.2 How should I submit patches? |
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3.3 How should I submit new feature request? |
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3.4 Will WeeChat be ported to *BSD, QNX, MacOS X, Microsoft Windows? |
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3.5 I want to help WeeChat developers. What can I do? |
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3.6 Can I give money or other things to WeeChat developers? |
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| 1- Compiling | |
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1.1 I heard about many GUI for WeeChat. How can I compile/use them? |
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Curses GUI is built by default. |
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To build Gtk or Qt GUI you've to specify extra options to ./configure script: |
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--enable-gtk to enable gtk GUI |
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--enable-qt to enable Qt QUI |
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Type ./configure --help to see available options. |
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WARNING: only Curses GUI is ok today. Other GUI are under development! |
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1.2 I can't compile WeeChat CVS. |
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Check that you have latest version of autoconf and automake. |
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WeeChat has been developed with autoconf version 2.56 and automake version 1.7. |
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You should have at least these versions in order to compile WeeChat CVS. |
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If you can't or don't want to install these versions, you can download and |
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install "devel package", a package built almost every day, based on CVS. |
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Note that this package may not correspond exactly to CVS base. |
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2.1 Why using WeeChat ? Irssi and xchat are so good... |
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Because WeeChat is very light and has new features. |
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Some new features: |
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* many GUI (Curses, Gtk, Qt), |
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* extensible with scripts (Perl, Python, Ruby), |
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* developed from scratch (not based on any other IRC client) |
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* multi-platform |
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* 100% GPL and free |
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This is the "geekest Irc client" ;) |
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2.2 I've launched WeeChat, but I'm lost, what can I do? |
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For help you can type /help. For help about a command, type /help command. |
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2.3 How can I customize key bindings? |
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Today you can't do that. This will be available in a future version. |
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3.1 How should I report bugs? |
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There is 3 ways to report bugs: |
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1. you can join us on IRC: irc.freenode.net, channel #eci |
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If no one can help you (huh?), try another way, see below. |
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2. you can submit your bug at this url: |
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http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=weechat |
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3. you can mail your problem, look at support page for developer's mails: |
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http://weechat.flashtux.org/support.php |
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(you can subscribe and send to "support" mailing list) |
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3.2 How should I submit patches? |
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There is 3 ways to submit patches: |
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1. you can join us on IRC: irc.freenode.net, channel #eci |
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If no one can help you (huh?), try another way, see below. |
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2. you can submit your patch at this url: |
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http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?func=addpatch&group=weechat |
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3. you can mail your patch, look at support page for developer's mails: |
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http://weechat.flashtux.org/support.php |
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(you can subscribe and send to "support" mailing list) |
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3.3 How should I submit new feature request? |
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There is 2 ways to submit your feature request: |
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1. you can join us on IRC: irc.freenode.net, channel #eci |
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If no one can help you (huh?), try another way, see below. |
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2. you can mail your feature request, look at support page for developer's |
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mails: |
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http://weechat.flashtux.org/support.php |
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(you can subscribe and send to "support" mailing list) |
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3.4 Will WeeChat be ported to *BSD, QNX, MacOS X, Microsoft Windows ? |
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Yes. Future versions will be available for these OS. |
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3.5 I want to help WeeChat developers. What can I do? |
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There's many tasks to do (code, documentation, ...) |
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Please contact us with IRC or mail, look at support page: |
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http://weechat.flashtux.org/support.php |
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3.6 Can I give money or other things to WeeChat developers? |
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