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I'm currently using irssi as my irc client, which is ok, mostly, but there are a couple of things that would make the chat experience better:

  1. readline support -- the ability to use vi key bindings in chat like I do everywhere else would be good.
  2. Tab completion on nicks that doesn't add a space after the nick, so that I can add punctuation without hitting the backspace key.

I tried googling for IRC readline, but the results were disappointing. Does anyone know of a commandline irc client which has readline support, or know of a way to configure irssi to use it?

Barton Chittenden
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    Just some pointers: vim mode for irssi: https://github.com/shabble/irssi-scripts/tree/master/vim-mode and also some more alternatives http://superuser.com/questions/243625/any-irc-clients-with-vi-key-binds and for something completely different http://micropipes.com/blog/2012/04/09/10-years-of-irssi-use-and-i-switched-to-weechat-last-weekend/ – doktor5000 May 15 '15 at 12:52
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    No, I don't know – anyone May 15 '15 at 14:40
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    You might want to try at http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/ – roaima May 15 '15 at 14:50
  • @roaima Only for the other client bit, not for the configuring irssi bit. And anyway the question is on-topic here (and more likely to be answered here, for that matter). – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' May 15 '15 at 16:58

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