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IRSSI has a vim mode plugin, and you can get most(all?) the IM protocols with bitlbee.

http://irssi.org/

https://github.com/shabble/irssi-scripts/tree/master/vim-mode (up one level for the readme)

http://www.bitlbee.org/

It's a great doc and I think everyone should watch it. As for the IM conversation, I think that's just for production value. But I think that they are trying to make it look like a terminal based IRC client, such as Irssi

I use irssi installed from MacPorts.

You may need some time to get it customized and to learn the nice things it can do under it's minimal interface, but it's far the best IRC client for me.

There are much of themes, scripts and tips for nearly everything you can think of.

For people who like using Linux, I recommend setting up irssi and bitlbee. This will make irssi into a chat program that can access IRC, AIM, MSN, gchat (using jabber), and fbchat (using jabber) (and probably more; these are the ones I know about). You can put your irssi in a screen session on a server you can SSH into, and now you have your chat program accessible from any computer that knows how to SSH. You can customize your irssi how you like with custom scripts or themes (for IRC I recommend a nickcolor script and hilightwin.pl), and you can log everything yourself (but you'll be responsible for taking the backups), and you won't risk your IM client being bought out by another company (you might have to move machines sometimes).

I admit the phone interface is a little poor, but that's because what I use is an SSH client app, not an app specifically designed for irssi usage.

I do exactly this with Irssi on a Linux box. You can setup an irssi-proxy which would always be connected to the networks and channels of your choosing, then you can connect to that proxy from any computer using any client you want, simultaneously even.

Quite frankly, no.

I have created mine (screenshot) back in the days without much more than what you're linking at. My best advice is to try and find, among those already published, a theme that most closely resemble something you like and use that as a template to modify upon. My inspiration was lilah, for example. You start off from a theme, and little by little you understand how everything works (look for a commented .theme file) and what you want to modify.

I still very happily ~~ab~~use irssi every day, but it makes me kind of sad seeing that pretty much nothing is moving towards 0.8.16... anyway, hope I helped you a bit ;)

I don't know about other clients, but in <em>irssi</em> (not GUI) you can just ignore these messages. Proper "friends" scripts should work.

/ignore -network freenode ##javascript JOINS PARTS QUITS NICKS Also:

/ignore JOINS PARTS QUITS /ignore -regexp -pattern "is (away|gone|back)" * ACTIONS

I have to admit that I'd never heard of Meebo as I use irssi via cygwin and gmail chat. After looking into it, I can see the advantages of using Meebo, and I have to assume that Google will integrate the best of its features into gmail chat and quietly do away with anything that's not applicable. By the way, has anyone used aardvark lately?

Hey Way =)

I obviously had some of the same issues with CraftIRC, but the issues always stemmed from losing connection to the irc server for whatever reason (network hiccup, issue with espernet...). I now connect CraftIRC through a local proxy/bouncer (I use irssi's proxy module, but something like PsyBNC or ZNC would work equally well), so even if things go nutty CraftIRC never loses its connection and it's been fine ever since.

That said I'm definitely looking for something better as newer versions of it don't work with HeroChat - such that I'm now stuck using ancient versions of both HeroChat and CraftIRC to keep it working until I find a better solution. I'll probably be looking at both of the suggestions mentioned here myself.

Well as far as I know, irssi takes it's color pallet from .Xdefaults, does it not?

http://irssi.org/documentation/formats

Edit: sorry misunderstood your question. Yeah, the conversion from hex to 256 colors isnt straight forward.

I use this perl script to print the available colors, this is what I've been using to try to match things up. Irssi takes its colors for sure from the system colors.

I have a fairly simple but hacky solution for this, we'll be able to define a custom color palette for irssi alone from hexcodes, so you won't have to mess up your system colors.

Esper is a company or something, they run a service on port 6667 called IRC or Internet Relay Chat - a protocol that's been around since before HTTP iirc.

The usual way to connect is with an IRC client like mIRC or irssi and use that. Most people stay connected to the network without saying much, just lurking. The #redditeu channel is pretty active though!

#starcraft on the same Esper IRC network is more US-centric and has more activity still, but you're unlikely to find people for a EU tournament in there. At least not as many.

You might have heard of Quakenet or Freenode, they're both big IRC networks as well. I'd give it a shot, it's a great community environment!

I'll try and play regardless, hopefully I'm around at that time!