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stupid mIRC...Whats a good IRC client?
nstgc:
I've used mIRC and its fine, but I use XChat usually.
Xiong Chiamiov:
Used to use irssi, but really couldn't be arsed to get it set up the way I wanted it. Switched to WeeChat some time ago, and have been rather happy. The real reason I switched was that it's extensible in Python, Ruby and Lua (and Perl and Tcl), rather than irssi's just-Perl, although I haven't actually written any scripts for it yet.
The fact that I can hotswap the running binary when I update it is pretty cool, too.
JoonasTo:
--- Quote from: Xiong Chiamiov on October 12, 2010, 05:16:47 AM ---Used to use irssi, but really couldn't be arsed to get it set up the way I wanted it. Switched to WeeChat some time ago, and have been rather happy. The real reason I switched was that it's extensible in Python, Ruby and Lua (and Perl and Tcl), rather than irssi's just-Perl, although I haven't actually written any scripts for it yet.
The fact that I can hotswap the running binary when I update it is pretty cool, too.
--- End quote ---
Irssi has the live update too. Don't really see why anyone would need it. Maybe if you're going for world record uptime or something...
Now that's geeky!
Sosseres:
--- Quote from: JoonasTo on October 12, 2010, 10:48:07 AM ---Irssi has the live update too. Don't really see why anyone would need it. Maybe if you're going for world record uptime or something...
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It means you don't have to restart the client. Average time I leave mIRC running is probably 15 days (over a 4 year period). Then something forces me to restart my computer or I turn it off for some random reason. I don't update mIRC since restarting the client is a bigger pain than lacking an update.
Xiong Chiamiov:
--- Quote from: JoonasTo on October 12, 2010, 10:48:07 AM ---
--- Quote from: Xiong Chiamiov on October 12, 2010, 05:16:47 AM ---Used to use irssi, but really couldn't be arsed to get it set up the way I wanted it. Switched to WeeChat some time ago, and have been rather happy. The real reason I switched was that it's extensible in Python, Ruby and Lua (and Perl and Tcl), rather than irssi's just-Perl, although I haven't actually written any scripts for it yet.
The fact that I can hotswap the running binary when I update it is pretty cool, too.
--- End quote ---
Irssi has the live update too. Don't really see why anyone would need it. Maybe if you're going for world record uptime or something...
--- End quote ---
My irc client runs inside a screen session on a vm, so it doesn't get brought up and down all the time. Being able to hotswap the binary means that I don't have to configure auto-rejoining of channels and such.
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