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Text-mode IRC client From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Irssi (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈirsːi] (listen)) is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client program for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Microsoft Windows. It was originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later in January 1999.[1]
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A screenshot of Irssi. | |
| Original author(s) | Timo Sirainen |
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| Developer(s) | The Irssi team |
| Initial release | January 1999[1] |
| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C, Perl[3] |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | IRC client |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later[4] |
| Website | irssi |
The program has a text-based user interface was written from scratch using C. It may be customized by editing its config files or by installing plugins and Perl scripts. Though initially developed for Unix-like operating systems, it has been successfully ported to both Windows and macOS.
Irssi is written in the C programming language and in normal operation uses a text-mode user interface.[5]
According to the developers, Irssi was written from scratch, not based on ircII (like BitchX and epic).[6] This freed the developers from having to deal with the constraints of an existing codebase, allowing them to maintain tighter control over issues such as security and customization.[6] Numerous Perl scripts have been made available for Irssi to customise how it looks and operates.[7] Plugins are available which add encryption[8][9] and protocols such as ICQ and XMPP.[10][11]
Irssi may be configured by using its user interface or by manually editing its configuration files, which use a syntax resembling Perl data structures.[5]
Irssi was written primarily to run on Unix-like operating systems, and binaries and packages are available for Gentoo Linux, Debian, Slackware, SUSE (openSUSE), Frugalware, Fedora, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,[12] NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, Solaris,[13] Arch Linux,[14] Ubuntu,[13] NixOS,[15] and others.
Irssi builds and runs on Microsoft Windows under Cygwin, and in 2006, an official Windows standalone build was released.[16]
For the Unix-based macOS, text mode ports are available from the Homebrew, MacPorts, and Fink package managers, and two graphical clients have been written based on Irssi, IrssiX, and MacIrssi.[13] The Cocoa client Colloquy was previously based on Irssi,[17] but it now uses its own IRC core implementation.[18]
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