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X-Chat README
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X-Chat ("xchat") Copyright (c) 1998-2010 By Peter Zelezny.
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This program is released under the GPL v2 with the additional exemption
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that compiling, linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed. You may
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provide binary packages linked to the OpenSSL libraries, provided that
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all other requirements of the GPL are met.
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See file COPYING for details.
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What is it?
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X-Chat is an IRC client for UNIX operating systems. I.R.C. is Internet
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Relay Chat, see http://irchelp.org for more information about IRC in
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general. Xchat runs on most BSD and POSIX compliant operating systems.
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Requirements:
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* GTK+ 2.10 (this is available at http://www.gtk.org).
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X-Chat is known to work on, at least:
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* Linux
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* FreeBSD
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* OpenBSD
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* NetBSD
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* Solaris
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* AIX
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* IRIX
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* DEC/Compaq Tru64 UNIX
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* HP-UX 10.20 and 11
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* MacOS X
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* Windows XP/2000/Vista/7
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Notes for packagers:
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If you need your packages to work on i386, you don't need to compile with
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--disable-mmx, because it's also checked at run-time.
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Python Scripts:
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Scripts for 1.8.x are not compatible, and a brand new interface has be
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written. Documentation can be found here: http://xchat.org/docs/.
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Consider using the Python interface for your scripts, it's a very nice
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API, allows for loading/unloading individual scripts, and gives you
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almost all the features of the C-Plugin API.
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Perl Scripts:
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Scripts for 1.8.x are compatible with the following exceptions:
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* IRC::command will not interpret %C, %B, %U etc.
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* user_list and user_list_short:
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If a user has both op and voice, only the op flag will be 1.
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* add_user_list/sub_user_list/clear_user_list
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These functions do nothing.
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* notify_list
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Not implemented. Always returns an empty list.
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* server_list
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Lists servers that are not connected aswell.
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* Some print events may have new names and some were added.
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* Text printed by scripts must now be UTF8.
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* Text passed to scripts (via add_message_handler) will be encoded in UTF8.
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Autoloading Perl Scripts and Plugins
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* X-Chat automatically loads, at startup:
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~/.xchat2/*.pl Perl scripts
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~/.xchat2/*.py Python scripts
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~/.xchat2/*.so Plugins
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$(libdir)/xchat/plugins/*.so plugins
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(this usually translates to /usr/lib/xchat/plugins/*.so)
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Control Codes:
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%% - A single percentage sign
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%C - Control-C (mIRC color code)
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%B - Bold Text
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%U - Underline Text
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%R - Reverse Text
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%O - Reset all Text attributes
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%XXX - ASCII XXX (where XXX is a decimal 3 digit number)
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(Eg: %007 sends a BEEP)
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%Cforeground,background will produce a color code, eg: %C03,10
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These are now disabled by default (see Settings > Prefs > Input Box).
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Instead you can insert the real codes via ctrl-k, ctrl-b and ctrl-o.
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