beirc

A clim-based IRC client

beirc is a graphical Internet Relay Chat client using the clim (or mcclim) graphical library and built on top of cl-irc. beirc is the creation of Gilbert Baumann.

Features

• Multiple channels on multiple servers (one channel per tab)
• Ignore nicks (messages from selected nicks completely removed from display)
• Focus nicks (messages from selected nicks bolded on display)
• Clickable URLs
• Rewritable URLs (rewrite specbot replies to point to your local copy of the HyperSpec)
• Nickname highlighting (right click on a nick to get a menu of possibilities)
• Tab completion of nicknames
• Total customizability - write whatever functionality you want!

Quickstart

1. Install the software (there is an asd). You'll need CVS versions of cl-irc and mcclim, Max-Gerd Retzlaff's tab-layout-pane, and a threaded lisp.
2. Start with (beirc:beirc)
3. /Connect (you'll be prompted for server and nick)
4. /Join (you'll be prompted for channel)
5. Type to talk, or /me etc.
6. Click to select URLs, the channel to switch to, the nick to query etc.

Mailing Lists

• beirc-devel for developers
• beirc-cvs CVS log feed.
• beirc-announce for announcements.

Download

This project has not released any files.

CVS

You can browse our CVS repository or download the current development tree via anonymous cvs, as described here.

2005-10-01