What is the best IRC client?

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Propagandhi · Post by **Propagandhi** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:27 pm

irssi.
ssh + screen + irssi

hook · Post by **hook** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:42 pm

i voted for BitchX

BitchX and irssi are two of the very best IRC clients i've seen ...irssi being a more slender version of the BitchX beast.
a great plus that irssi has is the tab-autocompletion of filenames.

right now i'm mostly using kopete as a IRC client, but that's mainly based on the fact that i have all my other communication tools there

when there's a need for some heavy-duty IRCing, irssi and BitchX still rock

Xchat? ...never liked that one

...it's probably pretty good, but i just don't like it :/

khiloa · Post by **khiloa** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 11:53 pm

Thanks for the replies guys.

noup · Post by **noup** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:01 am

GAIM here, i don't use irc that often nowadays, though...

khiloa · Post by **khiloa** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 2:26 am

I used GAIM once just to try it..

XiuX · Post by **XiuX** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 2:53 am

BitchX forever

,... BitchX2 ! coming soon...

hook · Post by **hook** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 3:32 am

XiuX wrote:,... BitchX2 ! coming soon...

you're joking right?

v2 of the bitch? ...woohoo, that should be great

r_howie · Post by **r_howie** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 2:33 pm

Another vote for irssi. It's scriptable in perl and supports regex in many places (such as /ignore)... enough said!

frekiR · Post by **frekiR** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 5:34 pm

irssi all the way!
I just love it

Muso · Post by **Muso** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:27 pm

stonent wrote:vi!

Oh wait... Wrong discussion.

Emacs! Actually Emacs can do irc

Muso · Post by **Muso** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:30 pm

In all honesty ... Xchat is king. I only use irssi from ssh or vc. When I'm in X ... which is most of the time... xchat is one of the few programs that I always have running. The script variations are incredible and it runs beutifully from a nice h2o-gtk2-saphire gui

Koala Kid · Post by **Koala Kid** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:41 pm

XChat for Gnome
Konversation if you have kdelibs installed

KozmoNaut · Post by **KozmoNaut** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 10:12 am

Athas wrote:
stonent wrote:vi!

Oh wait... Wrong discussion.
I don't care, I can still vote for Emacs, I'm sure there's an IRC-package out for it somewhere

http://emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EmacsIRCClient

'nuff said.

superjaded · Post by **superjaded** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 10:16 am

Already been done.

Still using what I did back then too: irssi + screen.

khiloa · Post by **khiloa** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 12:57 am

superjaded wrote:Already been done.

Still using what I did back then too: irssi + screen.

Wups. I did a quick search and didn't find any other IRC client threads. Guess imaybe I should have looked a little harder.

G-Style · Post by **G-Style** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:04 am

XChat is the best for me.

Desecrater · Post by **Desecrater** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:16 am

What happened to BitchX ?? I rememebr liking that one back in the Slackwar 7 days

superjaded · Post by **superjaded** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:39 am

I remember liking BichX back before I found out about irssi as well.

Well, heck, I probably would still be using BitchX (well, EPIC4 + my own homebrew script that I lost) if I didn't have a need to be able to customize my DCC settings (what ip to listen on, what ports to listen on, etc).

khiloa · Post by **khiloa** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:43 am

I spent awhile on irssi yesterday and.. it really wasn't bad!

It would be great if it had a user list on the side such as XChat's.

nasteratu · Post by **nasteratu** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:00 pm

I used BitchX for a little bit but switched to irssi, both are very nice but irssi wins my vote. I was not much a fan of Xchat, probably because I have not used it too often but eh its nice

slarti` · Post by **slarti`** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:29 pm

irssi. Fulfills my needs - I rarely use DCC or CTCP or anything else.. I just talk alot on #gentoo

Xchat is nice as GUI client, but screen... wow.

C-a S then C-a C or put another screen in the pane with C-a p/n

You can split screen!

I don't use SSH to my server for irssi.. uptimes are for wieners. Anyway, it's all of 500MHz in a server which I mainly play with BeOS on.

zerojay · Post by **zerojay** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 6:37 am

My top3 would be:

1) kvirc (cvs version, v3 comes out soon.. destroys v2)
2) irssi (recently tried it out and got over my initial problems with it.
3) bitchx (used it for a long time, but it's showing it's age. v2 should be nice).

Worst 3:
1) Xchat (ugh, there's so much I want to say, but instead I'll say it's one good feature is being scriptable in a few languages like perl)
2) Konversation (the gui makes absolutely no sense)
3) ksirc (Just.. horrid)
4) Any IM program with an IRC plugin (if it's not scriptable, it's basically useless to me, plus I find that they are almost all SLOW)

Seamaiden · Post by **Seamaiden** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 7:13 am

After starting off with mIRC (in <gulp> Winders), I was weaned onto Xchat with my first Linux install. It works in both my partitions (yes, I have to keep a Windows partition on this machine for certain apps), easy to set up, and.. stuff. I'd like to check out some other (free) apps, but been too busy.

hook · Post by **hook** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 11:56 am

heh ...recently i've been using Kopete also for my IRC needs ...it's fairly basic still (still no DCC!!!!), but when it comes to just talking it's ok ...i still think BitchX (and irssi) is the best, though!!

...i just like having all my messenger services in one place

Post by **Halcy0n** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 2:12 pm

XChat all the way. Its the easiest for me to use and does everything that I want it to.

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