Recently I have been to pycon-india (will blog about that too!) there Sayan and Vivek introduced me to weechat which is a terminal based IRC client, from the time I saw Sayan’s weechat configuration I was hooked to it.
The same night I started configuring my weechat , it’s such a beautiful IRC client I was regretting why did I not use it before. It just transforms your terminal into IRC window.
For fedora you need to do:
sudo dnf install weechat
Some of the configuration and plugins you need are :
buffer notify-sendThat’s pretty much it but that doesn’t stop there you can make that client little more aesthetic. You can set weechat by using their documentation .
The clean design kind of makes you feel happy, plus adding plugin is not at all a pain. In the weechat window you just say /script install buffer.pl and it just installs it in no time. There are various external plugin in case you want to use them and writing plugin is actually fun , I have not tried that yet.
I also use to use bigger font but now I find this size more soothing to eyes. It is because of weechat I got to know or explore about this beautiful tool called tmux , because on normal terminal screen weechat lags , what I mean by lag is the keystroke somehow reach after like 5-6 seconds which makes the user experience go bad. I pinged people on IRC in #weechat channel with the query the community is amazing they helped me to set it up and use it efficiently , they only told me to use tmux or screen . With tmux my session are persistent and without any lag.
To install tmux on fedora:
sudo install tmux
tmux is a terminal multiplexer which means it can extend one terminal screen into many screen . I got to learn a lot of concepts in tmux like session , pane and windows . Once you know these things in tmux its really a funride. Some of the blogs I went through for configuring and using tmux the best I found was hamvoke , the whole series is pretty amazing . So basically my workflow goes for every project I am working on I have a tmux session named after it, which is done by the command:
tmux new-session -s <name_session>
Switching between two session can be done by attach and detach . And I have one constant session running of weechat . I thought I have explored every thing in tmux but that can’t be it , I came to know that there is a powerline for tmux too. That makes it way more amazing so this is how a typical tmux session with powerline looks like.
I am kind of loving the new setup and enjoying it. I am also constantly using tmux cheatsheet :P because it’s good to look up what else you can do and also I saw various screencast on youtube where tmux+vim makes things amazing.
Do let me know how you like my setup or how you use it .
Till then, Happy Hacking!