Hi Guys,
for some days I've been looking for a suckless irc client.
I've taken a look and used ii[1] but I did not find it very usable for
me.
So I've been using sic[2] which has been great for me, I had to make
some wrappers to improve the experience, like ignoring PARTs, JOINs, etc.
sic -h irc.freenode.net -n badosu |\
grep -v '< QUIT (\|< JOIN (\|< PART (\ |< NICK ('
One thing I've been missing from it though has been a notifier for when
someone would message me, so I've search the internet for something that
could trigger a notify-send when a string was matched on a line.
Since I could not find one, I've started grep-notify[3].
The idea is very simple, it would be used like this:
sic -h irc.freenode.net -n badosu |\
grep -v '< QUIT (\|< JOIN (\|< PART (\ |< NICK (' |\
grep-notify "[^(]badosu[^)]" irc.freenode.net
So that I could receive a nice message with libnotify.
It's current status is very prototypical and it's by no measure near to
something that I would like to share or tell others to use, I know it's working
for simple things though.
So, back to my original goal, I am still having some problems, output
stops being printed after a certain threshold, ~ 20 lines, when using it
with sic, I don't know yet why.
If you guys have any idea or know of another program that could help me
with this, it would be great!
Best, Amadeus.
[1]: http://tools.suckless.org/ii/
[2]: http://tools.suckless.org/sic/
[3]: https://github.com/badosu/grep-notify/blob/master/grep-notify.c
