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WeeChat FAQ, 2008-01-02
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WeeChat FAQ, 2009-01-03
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=======================
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Intended audience:
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1.2
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================================================================================
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Q: I can't compile WeeChat CVS.
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Q: I can't compile WeeChat after cloning git repository.
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A: Check that you have latest version of autoconf and automake.
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A: If you're compiling with autotools (and not cmake), check that you have
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latest version of autoconf and automake.
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WeeChat has been developed with autoconf version 2.61 and automake
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version 1.10.
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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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You should have at least these versions in order to compile WeeChat.
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If you can't or don't want to install these versions, you can download
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and install "devel package", a package built almost every day using git
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repository.
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Note that this package may not correspond exactly to git base.
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2.1
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A: Because WeeChat is very light and has new features.
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Some new features:
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* many GUI (Curses, Gtk, wxWidgets, Qt)
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* multi-protocols support via plugins (IRC and other soon)
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* many deported GUI in addition to Curses (coming soon)
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* available in many languages
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* nicklist available in all GUI
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* extensible with plugins (C, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua)
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* extensible with plugins (C, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl)
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* horizontal and vertical window split
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* infobar highlight
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* FIFO pipe for remote control
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* developed from scratch (not based on any other IRC client)
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* developed from scratch (not based on any other 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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More info on this page: http://weechat.flashtux.org/features.php
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A: A window is used when you split screen vertically or horizontally.
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A buffer is a "view" for a window. Each window displays a buffer, and
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many windows may display same buffer.
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Examples of buffers: server messages, channel, DCC list, ..
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Examples of buffers: server messages, channel, xfer control, ..
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2.4
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UTF-8 for terminal charset. If you see ANSI_X3.4-1968 or other values,
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probably your locale is wrong.
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- setup global decode value, for example:
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/setp charset.global.decode = ISO-8859-15
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with WeeChat <= 0.2.6: /setp charset.global.decode = ISO-8859-15
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with WeeChat >= 0.2.7: /set charset.default.decode "ISO-8859-15"
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- if you are using UTF-8 locale, check that your terminal is UTF-8
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ready. Terminal recommended for UTF-8 is rxvt-unicode.
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2.6
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================================================================================
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Q: How can I load Perl scripts?
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Are Perl scripts compatible with other IRC clients ?
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Q: How can I load Perl/Python/Ruby/Lua/Tcl scripts?
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Are scripts compatible with other IRC clients ?
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A: You can use /perl command to load scripts (default path is
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~/.weechat/perl).
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Note that scripts in ~/.weechat/perl/autoload are automatically loaded
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when WeeChat is starting up.
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Perl scripts are not compatible with other IRC clients.
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A: You can use commands /perl, /python, /ruby, /lua and /tcl to load
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scripts (default path for scripts is ~/.weechat/<language>).
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Note that scripts in ~/.weechat/<language>/autoload are automatically
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loaded when WeeChat is starting up.
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Scripts are not compatible with other IRC clients.
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2.7
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================================================================================
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Q: How can I load Python scripts?
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Are Python scripts compatible with other IRC clients ?
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A: You can use /python command to load scripts (default path is
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~/.weechat/python).
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Note that scripts in ~/.weechat/python/autoload are automatically loaded
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when WeeChat is starting up.
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Python scripts are not compatible with other IRC clients.
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2.8
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================================================================================
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Q: How can I load Ruby scripts?
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Are Ruby scripts compatible with other IRC clients ?
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A: You can use /ruby command to load scripts (default path is
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~/.weechat/ruby).
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Note that scripts in ~/.weechat/ruby/autoload are automatically loaded
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when WeeChat is starting up.
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Ruby scripts are not compatible with other IRC clients.
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2.9
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================================================================================
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Q: How can I load Lua scripts?
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Are Lua scripts compatible with other IRC clients ?
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A: You can use /lua command to load scripts (default path is
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~/.weechat/lua).
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Note that scripts in ~/.weechat/lua/autoload are automatically loaded
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when WeeChat is starting up.
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Lua scripts are not compatible with other IRC clients.
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2.10
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================================================================================
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Q: When I'm using weechat under screen, I have weird chars, when I switch
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window for example, how to fix that?
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@@ -170,7 +137,7 @@ A: This may be caused by bad value of TERM variable (look at echo $TERM).
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is ok (like many other values).
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2.11
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2.8
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================================================================================
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Q: I want to change language used by WeeChat for messages, but without
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exiting WeeChat, is it possible?
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users, you can issue: /shell setenv LANG=en_US)
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2.12
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2.9
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Q: With Curses GUI, how can I copy/paste text without pasting nicklist ?
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A: You can use a terminal with rectangular selection (like rxvt-unicode,
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konsole, ...).
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Other solution is to move nicklist to top or bottom, for example:
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/set look_nicklist_position = top
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with WeeChat <= 0.2.6: /set look_nicklist_position = top
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with WeeChat >= 0.2.7: /bar set nicklist position top
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2.13
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2.10
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Q: How to be warned when someone highlights me on a channel ?
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A: You can use sound.pl script (available on scripts page), and then
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setup a system command (to play sound, display message, ..) with this
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command :
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/setp perl.sound.cmd_highlight = "/usr/bin/command arguments..."
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with WeeChat <= 0.2.6:
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/setp perl.sound.cmd_highlight = "/path/command arguments"
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with WeeChat >= 0.2.7:
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/set plugins.var.perl.sound.cmd_highlight "/path/command arguments"
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3.1
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