Weechat is an “irc” client with a ton of plugins , and it can connect to a lot more things than simply irc, (you can use bitlbee to proxy to things). : Buffers So others than some custom colors you can see buffers.pl (which is the bar that’s on the left , it’s quite useful) To install it use: /script install buffers.pl Iset Another i would like to recommend is iset , it let you change settings from weechat itself it looks something like: Againt to install simply: /script install iset.pl There’s a ton of different plugin but this was supposed to be about my favourites , so me as many others use slack to communicate : WeeSlack my mate Ryan wrote this plugin to “connect” weechat with the slack api: _wee-slack - A WeeChat plugin for Slack.com. Synchronizes read markers, provides typing notification, search, etc.._github.com rawdigits/wee-slack I’t super useful and it hasn’t let me down once ( Normal electron based slack chat client used about a GB of mem , not anymore) Go.py It becomes kind of annoying to search through buffers , if you have a lot of them open (buffers are like conversations) , so go let’s you search through buffers and match their names So i have it bound to meta-f , you can type parts of the name of the buffer and go.py will match the buffer with whatever “regex” you’re typing /script install go.py This one is a must. Urlgrab.py If you’re in slack it’s likely someone will send you a link to check out , maybe a PR or some cat’s videos , to avoid reaching out to the mouse and select the link like a grandpa on his first win95 attempt we will use urlgrab.py /script install urlgrab.py It will match the latest url on the buffer and open it with your favourite command , in my case: And you can also list all the urls that have been sent to you by typing /url: So you can make a binding to /url **enter, to open the one you’ve selected :) : HighMon Highmon is a special buffer where all messages that contain your nickname are stored , so you can look them up easily. /script install highmon.pl That’s all for today , I think these are the ones i use the most , i normally have a few shortcuts for pretty much everything , you can create them with iset or by hand on weechat.conf for example. Thanks for reading!

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