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HexChat README
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X-Chat ("xchat") Copyright (c) 1998-2010 By Peter Zelezny.
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HexChat ("hexchat") Copyright (c) 2009-2012 By Berke Viktor.
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This program is released under the GPL v2 with the additional exemption
that compiling, linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed. You may
provide binary packages linked to the OpenSSL libraries, provided that
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all other requirements of the GPL are met.
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See file COPYING for details.
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For building instructions, see http://www.hexchat.org/developers/building
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What is it?
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HexChat is an IRC client for Windows and UNIX operating systems. I.R.C. is
Internet Relay Chat, see http://irchelp.org for more information about IRC
in general. HexChat runs on most BSD and POSIX compliant operating systems.
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Requirements:
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* GTK+ 2.10
* GLib 2.12
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HexChat is known to work on, at least:
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* Windows XP/Vista/7/8
* Linux
* FreeBSD
* OpenBSD
* NetBSD
* Solaris
* AIX
* IRIX
* DEC/Compaq Tru64 UNIX
* HP-UX 10.20 and 11
* MacOS X
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Notes for packagers:
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If you need your packages to work on i386, you don't need to compile with
--disable-mmx, because it's also checked at run-time.
Python Scripts:
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Scripts for XChat 1.8.x are not compatible, a brand new interface has been
written. The documentation can be found here:
https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/wiki/Python-Interface
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Consider using the Python interface for your scripts, it's a very nice
API, allows for loading/unloading individual scripts, and gives you
almost all the features of the C-Plugin API.
Perl Scripts:
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Perl 5.8 or newer is required. The documentation can be found here:
https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/wiki/Perl-Interface
Scripts for XChat 1.8.x are compatible with the following exceptions:
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* IRC::command will not interpret %C, %B, %U etc.
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* user_list and user_list_short:
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If a user has both op and voice, only the op flag will be 1.
* add_user_list/sub_user_list/clear_user_list
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These functions do nothing.
* notify_list
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Not implemented. Always returns an empty list.
* server_list
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Lists servers that are not connected aswell.
* Some print events may have new names and some were added.
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* Text printed by scripts must now be UTF8.
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* Text passed to scripts (via add_message_handler) will be encoded in UTF8.
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Autoloading Scripts and Plugins:
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The root of your HexChat config is:
* Windows: %APPDATA%\HexChat
* Unix: ~/.config/hexchat
Referred to as <config> from now. HexChat automatically loads, at startup:
* <config>/addons/*.lua Lua scripts
* <config>/addons/*.pl Perl scripts
* <config>/addons/*.py Python scripts
* <config>/addons/*.tcl Tcl scripts
* <config>/addons/*.dll Plugins (Windows)
* <config>/addons/*.so Plugins (Unix)
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Control Codes:
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%% - A single percentage sign
%C - Control-C (mIRC color code)
%B - Bold Text
%U - Underline Text
%R - Reverse Text
%O - Reset all Text attributes
%XXX - ASCII XXX (where XXX is a decimal 3 digit number)
(Eg: %007 sends a BEEP)
%Cforeground,background will produce a color code, eg: %C03,10
These are now disabled by default (see Settings > Prefs > Input Box).
Instead you can insert the real codes via ctrl-k, ctrl-b and ctrl-o.