3 ii is a minimalistic FIFO and filesystem based IRC client. It creates an irc
4 directory tree with server, channel and nick name directories. In every
5 directory a FIFO file (in) and and normal file (out) is placed.
7 The in file is used to communicate with the servers and the out files include
8 the server messages. For every channel and every nick name there will be new in
11 The basic idea of this is to be able to communicate with an IRC server with
12 standard command line tools. For example if you want to join a channel just do
13 echo "/j #channel" > in and ii creates a new channel directory with in and out
18 Edit config.mk to match your local setup. ii is installed into
19 /usr/local by default.
21 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install ii (if
28 Simply invoke the 'ii' command with required arguments
30 To make ii a bit more comfortable use it in combination with the multitail
31 program and for example with vim. Run vim in the server directory and use
33 map w1 :.w >> \#ii/in<cr>
34 map w2 :.w >> \#wmii/in<cr>
37 If you use the next editor line for a new posting you can use ctrl-p for nick
38 completion if you wrote the nick in the past.
39 Thanks to Matthias Kopfermann for this hint.
41 You can find an example of how this nested environment could look like on:
42 http://nion.modprobe.de/blog/archives/440-Using-the-ii-irc-client.html
46 No configuration is needed.
50 Since I missed the chance to add a proper changelog right from the beginning,
51 please have a look at the commit messages on http://code.suckless.org/hg/ii/
52 they are fairly descriptive on releases prior to 1.2.
56 If you want to contact the developers just write a mail to
57 ii (at) modprobe (dot) de
59 -- Nico Golde, Anselm R. Garbe