/shell setenv LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /upgrade
Because WeeChat is very light and has new features. Some features (version > = 0.3.x):
multi-protocol support via plugins (IRC, Jabber)
many remote GUI’s in addition to Curses (coming soon)
available in many languages
extensible with plugins (C, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl)
buffers with free content
display filtering by tags and regular expressions
horizontal and vertical window split
customizable and extensible bars
nicklist available in all GUI’s
incremental text search in buffers, jump to highlights
FIFO pipe for remote control
aspell support
double charset (encoding/decoding)
developed from scratch (not based on any other client)
multi-platform
100% GPL and free
More info on this page: http://www.weechat.org/features
Today only a Curses GUI is available.
Other GUI’s will be available as remote clients (currently under development).
The recommended way to compile WeeChat is with cmake.
If you’re compiling with autotools (and not cmake), check that you have latest version of autoconf and automake (WeeChat is developed with autoconf 2.61 and automake 1.10.1).
The other way is to install "devel package", which needs less dependencies. This package is built almost every day using git repository. Note that this package may not correspond exactly to git base and that it’s less convenient than git cloning for installing updates.
For help you can type /help. For help about a command, type /help command. Keys and commands are listed in documentation.
It’s recommended for new users to read the quickstart guide (see the doc page on the website).
A buffer is composed by a number, a name, lines displayed (and some other data).
A window is a screen area which displays a buffer. It is possible to split your screen into many windows.
Each window displays one buffer. A buffer can be hidden (not displayed by a window) or displayed by one or more windows.
It’s common issue, please read carefully and check ALL solutions below.
For versions < 0.2.3, please upgrade to the latest stable version.
For versions > = 0.2.3:
check that weechat-curses is linked to libncursesw (warning: needed on most distributions but not all): ldd /path/to/weechat-curses
check that the "Charset" plugin is loaded with /plugin command (if it is not, then you probably need the "weechat-plugins" package)
check the charset line (on server buffer). You should see ISO-XXXXXX or UTF-8 for terminal charset. If you see ANSI_X3.4-1968 or other values, your locale is probably wrong.
setup global decode value, for example:
with WeeChat < = 0.2.6: /setp charset.global.decode = ISO-8859-15
with WeeChat > = 0.3.x: /set charset.default.decode "ISO-8859-15"
if you are using UTF-8 locale:
check that your terminal is UTF-8 ready (terminal recommended for UTF-8 is rxvt-unicode)
if you are using screen, check that it is run with UTF-8 mode ("defutf8 on" in ~/.screenrc or screen -U to run screen)
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This may be caused by a bad value of the TERM variable in your shell (look at output of echo $TERM in your terminal).
Depending on where you launch WeeChat, you should have:
if WeeChat runs locally or on a remote machine without screen, it depends on the terminal used: xterm, rxvt, ..
if WeeChat runs under screen, you should have screen.
If needed, fix your TERM variable: export TERM="xxx".
This may be caused by bad value of the TERM variable in your shell (look at output of echo $TERM in your terminal).
For example, xterm-color may display such weird chars, you can use xterm which is ok (like many other values).
If needed, fix your TERM variable: export TERM="xxx".
Key bindings are customizable with /key command.
Default key Meta-k (usually Alt-k) lets you grab key code and insert it in command line.
Under OpenBSD, plugin filenames end with ".so.0.0" (".so" for Linux).
You must set that up:
with WeeChat < = 0.2.6:
/set plugins_extension = ".so.0.0"
with WeeChat > = 0.3.x:
/set weechat.plugin.extension ".so.0.0"
Then: /plugin autoload.
You can use the commands /perl, /python, /ruby, /lua and /tcl to load scripts (default path for scripts is ~/.weechat/<language>/).
Scripts are not compatible with other IRC clients.
Notes:
scripts in ~/.weechat/<language>/autoload/ are automatically loaded when WeeChat is starting up.
a tcl plugin is available with version > = 0.3.x.
Yes, you have to use a python script, shell.py (available on WeeChat website) and issue these commands when script is loaded:
/shell setenv LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /upgrade
To have english messages with UTF-8 encoding for terminal, for ISO users, you can issue: /shell setenv LANG=en_US.
You can use a terminal with rectangular selection (like rxvt-unicode, konsole, gnome-terminal, …). Key is usually ctrl + alt + mouse selection.
Another solution is to move nicklist to top or bottom, for example:
with WeeChat < = 0.2.6:
set look_nicklist_position = top
with WeeChat > = 0.3.x:
/bar set nicklist position top
According to WeeChat version:
with WeeChat < = 0.2.6: use script sound.pl (available on scripts page),
and then setup a system command (to play sound, display message, ..) with
this command:
/setp perl.sound.cmd_highlight = "/path/to/command arguments"
with WeeChat > = 0.3.x: use script launcher.pl (available on scripts page),
and then setup a system command (to play sound, display message, ..) with
this command:
/set plugins.var.perl.launcher.signal.weechat_highlight "/path/to/command arguments"
Many other scripts exist for notification, please look at plugins/scripts page: http://www.weechat.org/plugins
According to WeeChat version:
with WeeChat < = 0.2.6:
/ignore * join #weechat freenode
/ignore * part #weechat freenode
/ignore * quit #weechat freenode
(channel and/or server may be "*", /help ignore for help)
with WeeChat > = 0.3.x:
smart filter (keep join/part/quit from users who spoke recently):
/set irc.look.smart_filter on
/filter add irc_smart * irc_smart_filter *
(/help irc.look.smart_filter and /help filter for help)
global filter (hide all join/part/quit):
/filter add jpk * irc_join,irc_part,irc_quit *
(/help filter for help)
The /ignore command is an IRC command, so it applies only for IRC buffers (servers and channels). It lets you ignore some nicks or hostnames of users for a server or channel (command will not apply on content of messages). Matching messages are deleted by IRC plugin before display (so you’ll never see them).
The /filter command is a core command, so it applies to any buffer. It lets you filter some lines in buffers with tags or regular expression for prefix and content of line. Filtered lines are only hidden, not deleted, and you can see them if you disable filters (by default, the key alt + "=" toggles filters).
There are 3 ways:
you can join us on IRC: irc.freenode.net, channel #weechat
you can use the savannah website:
report a bug: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=weechat
request a new feature: https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?group=weechat
send a patch: https://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?group=weechat
you can mail developers, look at support page for developer’s mails: http://www.weechat.org/about (you can subscribe and send to "support" mailing list)
The full list is on this page: http://www.weechat.org/download
We do our best to run on as many platforms as possible. Help is welcome for some OS' we don’t have, to test WeeChat.
There’s many tasks to do (testing, code, documentation, …)
Please contact us via IRC or mail, look at support page: http://www.weechat.org/about
You can give us money to help development. Details on http://www.weechat.org/donate