Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I now have irc running here and had tried epic5 earlier but couldn't > figure which if any of its themes would be good for the command line > accessibility I'm using. Another couple environments I tried were erc > inside of emacs (comes with current emacs already installed), and > bitchx. I've used quite a few IRC clients myself. I don't know how epic5 compares to older versions, but I used older versions of this many many years ago, often with the -d switch for dumb terminals. This disabled the curses GUI. I did the same thing with ircii back in the day. In fact, ircii -d was what I used in the 1990s, when all I had was a Braille 'n Speak, a modem, and a shell account. These days, I might point people who want to run without curses at sic. For a more full-featured console client, irssi is good, but the default configuration is very, very annoying to use with Speakup. My irssi config files are a real mess, and I'd have to do a bit of work to make them publicly shareable. But I could do that if I get requests. Weechat is also nice, and here again, the default configuration really sucks with Speakup. Yeah, I detest most curses apps. I could probably share my weechat config. But honestly, what I need to do is figure out the simple list of commands needed to generate a usable configuration for both clients and then post those somewhere. Finally, there's my favorite, erc within emacs, which you mentioned in your message. I love it. I moved away from it at one time, because I really needed the flexibility of irssi within screen, but I will probably end up moving back to it sooner rather than later. I only use it with emacspeak. The nice thing about the erc emacspeak combo is that you can enable or disable autospeaking of messages on a channel by channel basis. It's all very well integrated into emacs, so it's highly customizable. Of course, if you want to script it, you'll need to know some Emacs Lisp. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list