Minimal IRC client written in bash, featuring the full power of readline for
input and keybindings, tab completion of nicks and unique (or semi-unique)
nick colors.
===> The following configuration options are available for birch-g20200327:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
birch was successfully installed.
Caveats (or limitations):
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* Nick column is fixed and truncated to 10 columns wide.
This is something fixable down the line. It merely serves to
simplify the alignment of messages into two columns (nick and
messages).
* Lines are word-wrapped to a fixed 60 columns.
This is also fixable down the line though a lot more painful
than the nick column issue. POSIX fold is used to achieve the
word wrapping but doesn't take into account non-printable
characters and unicode.
What this means is that wrapping will always be a little _off_
as escape sequences, IRC formatting and unicode will throw
out all attempts at calculating the "visible" line length.
It's an interesting problem to solve. I've made a myriad of
attempts at writing a suitable function in bash though they're
all too slow (as expected!).
* No automatic server reconnect.
This should be fairly easy to fix though I need to figure out
the best way of doing so.
* No SSL (sadly).
The network connection is through bash's builtin /dev/tcp
feature which doesn't allow for SSL.
Keybindings:
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Ctrl+n - Next buffer.
Ctrl+p - Previous buffer.
Tab - Completion of nicks and channels.
Further, all readline keybindings are available for use. See the
readline or bash manpages for a list of these.
Keybindings to birch may also be set via a .inputrc file. Which
can be configured by setting `$BIRCH_INPUTRC`.
(BIRCH_INPUTRC=/path/to/birch-inputrc birch)
Commands:
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Channels
/join <channel> - Join a channel.
/part <channel> - Leave a channel.
/quit - Quit out of birch.
Messages
/msg <nick> <message> - Message a user.
/me <message> - Send an action.
Navigation
/next - Next buffer.
/prev - Previous buffer.
/<num> - Buffer by number (0 indexed).
Other
/nick <nick> - Change nickname.
/names - Display all nicks in channel.
/topic - Display channel topic.
/raw <args> - Send a raw IRC message.
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner)
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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