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1 Multitail + Vim 2 --------------- 3 To make ii a bit more comfortable, use it in combination with the multitail 4 program and for example with vim. Run vim in the server directory and use key 5 mapping like: 6 7 map w1 :.w >>\\#ii/in<cr> 8 map w2 :.w >>\\#wmii/in<cr> 9 10 to post to channels. Thanks to Matthias Kopfermann for this hint. 11 12 Another cool thing is to use it with splitvt so you have multitail windows on 13 top and for example four lines of vim at the bottom. 14 15 There is also a blog post which describes the whole configuration: 16 [http://nion.modprobe.de/blog/archives/440-Using-the-ii-irc-client.html](http://nion.modprobe.de/blog/archives/440-Using-the-ii-irc-client.html) 17 18 Popup Chat Windows 19 ------------------ 20 You can also try [pcw](http://bitbucket.org/emg/pcw) which will (by default) 21 open a new terminal for each channel you join. On startup, and after receiving 22 SIGUSR1, pcw will open a terminal for every channel you are already in. By 23 default it depends on [srw](http://bitbucket.org/emg/srw) as a line editing 24 wrapper. Just run 'pcw ~/irc' (or whichever directory you have ii using) then 25 start up ii. Note that closing a terminal does not exit the channel. If that 26 channel receives a new message the terminal will open again. To leave the 27 channel you must first '/l' and then close the window. (the combination of pcw 28 + ii + bitlbee let me stop using pidgin :-D) 29 30 Web frontend 31 ------------ 32 phpii is a simple web frontend for ii. You can see a demo of it and download 33 the php source here: [phpii 34 homepage](http://yogan.meinungsverstaerker.de/phpii) 35 36 iii 37 --- 38 [iii](https://github.com/c00kiemon5ter/iii) (maybe interactive ii, or 39 something) is a collection of shell scripts to produce a cli frontend to ii. 40 iii looks like a "normal" irc client (ie irssi), working on top of ii. 41 42 It features connections to multiple servers and autojoin of channels, 43 auto-reconnect to servers and channels on network failure, autocompletion 44 through rlwrap, formatted and colored output etc. 45 46 It can be used directly in the command line, or like pcw spawning terminals for 47 each channel, or inside a dedicated tmux session. 48 49 Read the readme file, and do not hesitate to ask c00kiemon5ter for help on 50 freenode and oftc. 51 52 iil 53 --- 54 The [iil](http://chiselapp.com/user/onys/repository/iil/home) (short for 55 iiless) is fast viewer/reader for ii irc client, using your shell and less. 56 57 uii 58 --- 59 [uii](https://github.com/erlehmann/uii) (usable irc it) is a set of shell 60 scripts that provides readline support, uses inotify to monitor channels and 61 pops up notifications. 62 63 im-scripts 64 ---------- 65 [im-scripts](http://github.com/gravicappa/im-scripts) is a set of sh-scripts 66 for convenient use of ii and ji. 67 68 wii 69 --- 70 [wii](http://github.com/younix/wii) is a simple web frontend for ii. 71 It just uses HTML, java-script and shell-script. 72 73 xii 74 --- 75 [xii](http://github.com/younix/xii) is a simple X11 frontend for ii. 76 It is written in plain C based on Xaw and Xt library. 77 78 hysteria 79 -------- 80 [hysteria](http://git.2f30.org/hysteria/) is another set of scripts 81 (mostly shell) which provide support for highlighting, autojoining, etc. 82 83 lchat 84 ----- 85 [lchat](https://github.com/younix/lchat) is a line oriented terminal font-end. 86 87 yaic 88 ---- 89 [Yet Another Ii Client](https://github.com/cemkeylan/yaic) is a shell script 90 for ii with channel switching, proper line folding, and pretty formatting. 91 92 TLS/SSL 93 ------- 94 To connect to a TLS/SSL encrypted channel, it is possible to use the [SSL 95 patch](/ii/patches/ssl) or a proxy: 96 97 [stunnel](https://www.stunnel.org/) is a proxy for an unencrypted TCP 98 connection to TLS: 99 100 In `/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf`: 101 102 [irc.oftc.net] 103 accept = 127.0.0.1:<your-port> 104 connect = irc.oftc.net:6697 105 106 [inetd](http://man.openbsd.org/inetd) listens on multiple TCP ports and can 107 connect a program standard input and output to a TCP socket. 108 109 This enables it to act as a simple proxy using any command line TLS client, 110 such as [openssl s_client](http://man.openbsd.org/openssl#S_CLIENT), 111 [brssl client](https://bearssl.org/gitweb/?p=BearSSL;a=blob;f=tools/brssl.c;h=91372b09f42149a503f9d13db0b78cf0a123611e;hb=HEAD#l43), 112 nc -ssl, socat... or any other: 113 114 In `/etc/inetd.conf`: 115 116 /tmp/irc.oftc.net stream unix nowait nobody /usr/bin/openssl openssl s_client -quiet -connect irc.oftc.net:6697 117 118 Then a proxy should be available as an unix socket for ii to connect to: 119 120 ii -s irc.oftc.net -u /tmp/irc.oftc.net