Gentoo: Bitlbee is sweet!
I recently moved from using pidgin to using bitlbee (net-im/bitlbee). Bitlebee is sweet because it allows me to access “traditional IM” via irssi in a screen session from anywhere that I am via my co-located server. Of course, you can use any irc client that you are familiar with. As more and more of my friends move away from traditional IM, I don’t feel a need to pay as much attention to the various networks. So, it can stay off my desktop without worries. Do you use bitbee? Any fun tips?
Use it and love it! Also am using irssi. Lovely combo!
Hmmmm
Sounds really interesting. I ve never heard of bitlbee before. Thanks for pointing us to this application. I ll definitely give it a try
I’m using bitlbeed since a long time and I like it.
I would suggest you to use the bitlbee_tab_completion [1] script. As all of bitlbeed irssi scripts I found online it’s pretty old, but it retrives the command from bitlbeed server, so it is always up to date.
Here [2] you can find many other scripts, most of them useless, like typing notification
[1] http://scripts.irssi.org/scripts/bitlbee_tab_completion.pl
[2] http://the-timing.nl/stuff/irssi-bitlbee/
Indeed, I have started looking for scripts already. Thanks for the tip.
If you happen to be paranoid(who isn’t :p), either use irssi-otr or grab an otr-branch of bitlbee.
bitlbee+irssi+screen+ssh here
I use a modified version of bitlbee with otr-support.
http://www.freshports.org/irc/bitlbee-otr/