dylanaraps/birch

An IRC client written in bash

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birch's Issues

How to scroll ?

Hi, first thank you for making this aesthetic irc client. It might be stupid question, but how to scroll to see previous message? I'm using alacritty terminal and sometime using termux app to open birch but i can't scroll to see the previous message.

Again, thank you.

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$temp_dir/birch-$pid-$2: No such file or directory

I get the following messages from time to time:

path/to/birch: line 87: /tmp/birch-[pid]-[#nickname-random-text]: No such file or directory

Out of curiosity, I added the following to irc_print():

tee -a $HOME/birch-log.txt >> /dev/null << EOT

time: $(date)
pid: $pid
channel: $chan
channels: ${channels[*]}
temp_dir: $temp_dir
arg1: $1
arg2: $2

EOT

And here's the output I receive, where the second paragraph's arg1 and arg2 seems to be what's causing the No such file or directory error:

time: Tue 04 Feb 2020 03:26:55 PM CET
pid: 17947    
channel: #archlinux
channels: #kisslinux
temp_dir: /tmp
arg1:        <-- ^[[1;36mNekit1234007^[[m has quit ^[[1m#[email protected] QUIT :Ping timeout: 272 seconds^[[m
arg2: #[email protected] QUIT :Ping timeout: 272 seconds

time: Tue 04 Feb 2020 03:27:02 PM CET
pid: 17947
channel: #archlinux
channels: #kisslinux #archlinux
temp_dir: /tmp
arg1:        <-- ^[[1;34msigmundv^[[m has quit ^[[1m#sigmundv!sigmundv@nat/ibm/x-mngnfelapcnukspr QUIT :Ping timeout: 265 seconds^[[m
arg2: #sigmundv!sigmundv@nat/ibm/x-mngnfelapcnukspr QUIT :Ping timeout: 265 seconds

time: Tue 04 Feb 2020 03:27:05 PM CET
pid: 17947
channel: #archlinux
channels: #kisslinux #archlinux
temp_dir: /tmp
arg1:        --> ^[[1;36mNekit1234007^[[m has joined ^[[1m#archlinux^[[m
arg2: #archlinux
                                                                                                        
time: Tue 04 Feb 2020 03:27:19 PM CETpid: 17947
channel: #archlinux
channels: #kisslinux #archlinux
temp_dir: /tmp
arg1:        --> ^[[1;34mTripleDES^[[m has joined ^[[1m#archlinux^[[m
arg2: #archlinux

Not sure if I should edit out any nicknames etc for privacy concerns; let me know and I'll edit it.

Furthermore, not sure if this is due to misuse from my end or if it's something worth looking into.

Inverted current channel tab

Discussion

This might just be personal preference, but I dislike the way of highlighting the current channel by inverting the colors, as it is done currently. This is a pet peeve of mine in general, having such a glaring element.

I've patched my fork to use bold instead. It's less readable but more aesthetic IMO:

What does the community think? What about underline?

Feature wishlist

• Command line flag for specifying custom port
• Multi-channel join at startup
• Option to specify server username (not to be confused with the nickname)
• Buffer list
• Keyboard nav for buffers
• Respond to VERSION, PING, ACTION Action done. Not going to bother with others.
• A /me command
• Nick highlight color
• Optional notifications
• Send raw commands (/r CMD perhaps)
• Nickname tab completion

Can't msg NickServ on freenode

when I try to identify myself with nickserv I get the error
no text to send
idk why that's happening

Unable to connect to irc.talkabout.cf

I used the following to join an irc network:

./birch -s irc.talkabout.cf -u testing -c '#a11y'

It acts like it joined but when I type something, it shows the following:

-- No external channel messages (#a11y)

The /names command shows no one else. The port is the default of 6667 and when I tried adding it with the -P flag nothing changed. It works just fine on freenode though.

Minor typ0: Second 'in' when you probably meant 'is'

birch/birch

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# size in cells in unreliable. This command always

V.cool script btw.