circo

claudio's IRC oasis
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      1 Hello
      2 =====
      3 circo is a small IRC client for the terminal. It provides a list of views
      4 (buffers) to differentiate between channels, users, and other messages. Each
      5 buffer has its own input text while other relevant informations such as server
      6 and nickname are always visible at the top.
      7 
      8 Despite it's minimal design, circo is definitely not a suckless piece of code.
      9 It don't even follows in all respect the UNIX philosophy but it provides a very
     10 power bridge to the IRC servers with a such small code base. In this regard
     11 circo is unique.
     12 
     13 Altough it's compactness, circo is a powerful tool with almost all the features
     14 one would expect from an IRC client for the console:
     15 
     16 - UTF-8 support
     17 - Colors support
     18 - Tab completion
     19 - One screen per chan/user
     20 - Infinite scrolling
     21 - Resize handling
     22 - Commands history
     23 - Raw IRC commands
     24 
     25 None of the CTCP specification has been (nor will be) implemented, which means
     26 no DCC at all. In other words: direct chat and files sending are not available.
     27 
     28 Status
     29 ======
     30 Some refactor and cleanups are needed but it's mostly working.
     31 
     32 The circo IRC client is actively developed and I'm having a lot of fun in
     33 writing it. If you'll also find yourself having fun with circo, please consider
     34 submitting a pull request.