Weechat Bliss - Two minute spates

Back in Weechat Karmageddon, I spoke about a script I wrote to make giving hubot karma easy-peasy. In this post, we’ll talk about the rest of my weechat setup.

Overview

Weechat has two main ways to extend its stock functionality, scripts and plugins. Plugins are C programs that are dynamically loaded. Writing C programs to extend my IRC client is more work than I care for so I stick to scripts.

Since I use scripts from perl, python and ruby I make sure to install weechat with support for those languages.

~~$ brew install weechat —ruby —python —perl~~ $ brew install weechat --with-ruby --with-python --with-perl

Scripts

Here’s a quick list of scripts that I use regularly:

weechat-notification-center-rb — notifies you in Mac OS X Notification center
weechat-nerdbot-karma — bestows karma, nerdbot style
buffers.pl — lists your current buffers
urlgrab.py — quickly open up links of the cat images shared by coworkers

Once weechat has started, you may type /script help to get an interactive script manager. Unofficial scripts will not be listed in the interactive script manager so you’ll need to follow the installation instructions for weechat-notification-center-rb and weechat-nerdbot-karma.

Startup

I currently run camper_van as a proxy to my work campfire rooms, so I run ~~camper_van~~ camper_van in one terminal and then I set up a custom profile with a handy shortcut and startup command in iTerm2 to start up weechat.

Configuration

Here’s an example irc.conf for weechat.

[server] freenode.addresses = "chat.freenode.net/6667" freenode.proxy freenode.ipv6 freenode.ssl freenode.ssl_cert freenode.ssl_priorities freenode.ssl_dhkey_size freenode.ssl_verify freenode.password freenode.capabilities freenode.sasl_mechanism freenode.sasl_username = "jonathanwallace" freenode.sasl_password = "***************" freenode.sasl_timeout freenode.autoconnect = on freenode.autoreconnect freenode.autoreconnect_delay freenode.nicks freenode.username freenode.realname freenode.local_hostname freenode.command freenode.command_delay freenode.autojoin = "#rubyist,#rails,#rubyonrails,#ruby,#atlrug,#javascript,#axlsx,#bnr ***your channel password***" freenode.autorejoin freenode.autorejoin_delay freenode.connection_timeout freenode.anti_flood_prio_high freenode.anti_flood_prio_low freenode.away_check freenode.away_check_max_nicks freenode.default_msg_part freenode.default_msg_quit freenode.notify campfire.addresses = "127.0.0.1/6667" campfire.proxy campfire.ipv6 campfire.ssl campfire.ssl_cert campfire.ssl_priorities campfire.ssl_dhkey_size campfire.ssl_verify campfire.password = "bignerdranch:****your campfire API key******" campfire.capabilities campfire.sasl_mechanism campfire.sasl_username campfire.sasl_password campfire.sasl_timeout campfire.autoconnect campfire.autoreconnect = on campfire.autoreconnect_delay campfire.nicks campfire.username campfire.realname campfire.local_hostname campfire.command campfire.command_delay campfire.autojoin = "#playground,#sales_marketing,#public,#serious_business,#serious_coding,#team_car_ram_rod" campfire.autorejoin campfire.autorejoin_delay campfire.connection_timeout campfire.anti_flood_prio_high campfire.anti_flood_prio_low campfire.away_check campfire.away_check_max_nicks campfire.default_msg_part campfire.default_msg_quit campfire.notify

I had to make a slight modification to how urlgrab worked so here’s my urlgrab.conf file. I believe it was adding quotes around %s for localcmd.

# # urlgrab.conf -- weechat v0.3.9.2 # [color] color_bg_selected = green color_buffer = red color_buffer_selected = red color_time = cyan color_time_selected = cyan color_url = blue color_url_selected = blue [default] historysize = 10 localcmd = "open '%s'" method = "local" output_main_buffer = on remotecmd = "ssh -x localhost -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa -C "export DISPLAY=":0.0" && firefox '%s'"" time_format = "%H:%M:%S" url_log = "~/.weechat/urls.log"

Usage

I switch buffers with /b <buffer number. I bestow karma via /karma <name> <amount>. And examining urls is a snap with /url <ordinal position of url most recent first> e.g., /url 1 opens up the most recent url in the current buffer.

Coming up

You may look forward to what I had to do to install camper_van (war story!) and another plugin to start camper_van in the background as a hook_process on weechat so there’s no need to run camper_van in its own terminal.