hhirtz / senpai

Your everyday IRC student (mirror)

NOTICE me :senpai!

Welcome home, desune~

senpai is an IRC client that works best with bouncers:

• no logs are kept,
• history is fetched from the server via CHATHISTORY,
• networks are fetched from the server via bouncer-networks.

How do I use this?

mkdir -p ~/.config/senpai
cat <<EOF >~/.config/senpai/senpai.scfg
address chat.sr.ht
nickname senpai
password "my password can't be this cute (2010)"
# alternatively, specify a command to fetch your password:
# password-cmd  gopass show irc/<username>
EOF
go run ./cmd/senpai

Then, type /join #senpai on Libera.Chat and have a... chat!

See doc/senpai.1.scd for more information and doc/senpai.5.scd for more configuration options!

Debugging errors, testing servers

If you run into errors and want to find the WHY OH WHY, or if you'd like to try things out with an IRC server, then you have two options:

1. Run senpai with the -debug argument (or put debug true) in your config, it will then print in home all the data it sends and receives.
2. Run the test client, that uses the same IRC library but exposes a simpler interface, by running go run ./cmd/test -help.

Contributing and stuff

Contributions are accepted as patches to the mailing list and as pull requests on Github.

Browse tickets at https://todo.sr.ht/~taiite/senpai.

License

This senpai is open source! Please use it under the ISC license.

Copyright (C) 2021 The senpai Contributors