weechat.md

Install

brew install weechat --with-lua --with-perl --with-python --with-ruby

Run

weechat

Connect to Slack

/server add name-of-team xxxxx.irc.slack.com/6667 -autoconnect -ssl -ssl_dhkey_size=512 -ssl_verify=off -password=****** -username=xxxxx -nicks=xxxxx
/connect name-of-team

Find the password in https://xxxxx.slack.com/account/gateways

To message someone

/q <person> Hello

This will open a buffer with the current conversation

To close the buffer:

/close

To list channels

/script install buffers.pl

Enable mouse

/mouse enable

To paste contents of file

pastebinit file.txt

To move between chat windows:

Ctrl-N and Ctrl-P

To click links: hold Alt while selecting

To load history:

Go to :

https://github.com/thoughtbot/weechat-slacklog

curl -o ~/.weechat/ruby/slacklog.rb \
  "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thoughtbot/weechat-slacklog/master/slacklog.rb"

Optionally set the script to autoload when WeeChat starts:

cd ~/.weechat/ruby/autoload && ln -s ../slacklog.rb .

Restart WeeChat or load the script manually:

/script load slacklog.rb

To connect to IRC channels like #lrug:

/server add freenode irc.freenode.com/lrug
/set irc.server.freenode.autoconnect on
/set irc.server.freenode.username "Elena"
/set irc.server.freenode.realname "Elena"

/connect freenode

/join #lrug


/set irc.server.freenode.autojoin "#lrug,#elixir-lang,#ruby,#rubyonrails"

For more settings check out

https://gist.github.com/pascalpoitras/8406501#isetpl

Turning off beeping from beep script

Edit ~/.weechat/plugins.conf

Change to "off" all beep_* variables that are set to "on"