IRC Client in Terminal

Here's a solid IRC client for the terminal.

Install a client

Want more terminal time? What better place for programmer chat?

irssi is a solid little IRC chat client. Install it:

sudo apt install irssi

Choose a server

Well, where do we want to go? Let's chat Elixir. It used to be on freenode but moved to Libera.Chat.

Connect and chat

In your terminal, start the program:

irssi

Once it starts up, you can write commands within irssi:

/connect liberachat

/nick jtwookie

/join #elixir

/quit

Between join and quit, get chatty.

Help

Within irssi, see available commands and docs on each:

/help

/help nick

Or see the online docs.