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General
- light and fast
- available in many languages
- good documentation
- developed from scratch
- multi-platform: GNU/Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, ..
- actively developed, fast support and bugs correction
- 100% GPL and free
IRC protocol
- IRC standards compliant
- SASL authentication (plain, dh-blowfish and external)
- DCC support: files and chats
- smart filter for join/part/quit messages
- CTCP replies customization
- options for target buffer of messages
- IRC proxy
- redirection of IRC commands
Connection
- multi-servers connection, with no limit
- soft, background connection
- IPv6 support
- SSL support
- proxy support (http/socks4/socks5)
- auto-reconnection
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Innovating features
- 256 colors support
- mouse support
- customizable bars around chat area (including nicklist)
- horizontal and vertical window split
- smart hotlist in status bar: partial or full names of buffers with activity
- keys to jump to last read message and highlights in buffer
- dynamic filtering of lines displayed in buffers
- incremental text search in buffers
- FIFO pipe for remote control
- double charset support (encoding/decoding) by buffer
- aspell support: check spelling with one or more languages for each buffer
- extensible with C plugins or scripts (Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl and Scheme)
- scripts manager (easy installation of scripts)
- upgrade of WeeChat binary with save of full state (buffers, ...), without disconnection (except for SSL servers)
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relay with remote GUI:
QWeeChat (python/Qt),
weechat-android,
weecloud (web)
Other useful features
- UTF-8 support
- lag indicator
- color for away nicks
- auto completion for nicks, commands and args
- command alias
- auto save chats to files
- everything is customizable
- dynamic setup
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