sic irc & weechat buffer multiplex

10. 11. 2021

Simple suckless irc client, in Debian repos, read the man.

It multiplexes also all channel traffic into one output, that you don’t have to switch different channel buffers, that’s actually a feature.

Neat.

NAME
       sic - simple irc client

SYNOPSIS
       sic [-h <host>] [-p <port>] [-n <nick>] [-k <keyword>] [-v]

OPTIONS
       -h <host>
              Overrides the default host (irc6.oftc.net)

       -p <port>
              Overrides the default port (6667)

       -n <nickname>
              Override the default nick ($USER)

       -k <keyword>
              Specifies the keyword to authenticate your nick on the host

       -v     Prints version information to standard output, then exits.

COMMANDS
       :j #channel
              Join a channel

       :l #channel
              Leave a channel

       :m #channel/user msg
              Write a message to #channel/user

       :s #channel/user
              Set default channel/user

       Everything which is not a command is simply send the server.

Something similar for weechat

watch -n 7 -t "cat ~/.weechat/logs/* | grep -v '▬▬▶' | grep -v '◀▬▬' | sort | tail -n 30"
# or to skip first word
watch -n 7 -t "cat ~/.weechat/logs/* | grep -v '▬▬▶' | grep -v '◀▬▬' | sort | tail -n 30 | cut -d' ' -f2-"

Or weewatch script.

Edit: It turns out that buffer merging is also possible inside weechat itself

# add #debian to current buffer mux
/buffer merge irc.libera.#debian

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