WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light IRC client for many operating systems. Everything can be done with a keyboard, and it is customizable and extensible with C plugins and scripts. It is compliant with RFCs 1459, 2810, 2811, 2812, and 2813.
| Tags | Communications Chat IRC |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPLv3 |
| Operating Systems | Mac OS X POSIX BSD Windows Windows Linux GNU/Hurd Unix QNX Solaris |
| Implementation | C |
| Translations | English French German Spanish Hungarian Polish Russian Czech |
Recent releases


Changes: This version fixes a bug with detection of the gnutls library.


Changes: This version fixes a charset decoding problem.


Changes: This version fixes one major bug, namely a crash with some special characters in IRC messages.


Changes: Some commands were improved: server (copy and rename servers), connect (use temporary servers), and buffer (scroll options). A new key for jumping to the previous buffer was added. Many bugs were fixed. The license is now the GPLv3.


Changes: This version introduces smart completion, the /reconnect command, %M for completion with current channel nicks, a new color for text not found in the buffer history, and fixes for many bugs.