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title: "Short quickstat on tmux & WeeChat for GUIless support"
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category: [english]
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tags: [english, irc, tmux]
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---
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*Sometimes you don't have GUI when you need remote support, luckily you
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don't need it even if you have only one device.*
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## What is what?
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* Tmux is terminal multiplexer which allows you to have "multiple
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terminals" in one terminal. You can also detach it which means returning
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to the terminal where you ran tmux leaving tmux and everything there
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running and later return to it.
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* WeeChat is popular text based IRC client.
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## Installing things
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*Note: WeeChat has multiple optional depedencies, but I am only listing
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the most important ones (I will return to it later) unless they are all
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in one package.*
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* Arch & deriatives:
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* `sudo pacman --needed -S tmux weechat perl gpm pastebinit`
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* Debian & deriatives:
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* `sudo apt-get install weechat-curses weechat-plugins gpm pastebinit`
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## tmux
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Just run `tmux` and you will find yourself in a new shell, but with tmux
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bar on the bottom where you see open "windows".
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Basic navigation:
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*Note: Tmux users ctrl + b by default instead of ctrl + a as it was
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developed in screen. That can be changed with tmux.conf (check further
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reading after WeeChat).
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* Ctrl + b + c = new "window"
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* Ctrl + b + number = move to "window" number
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* Ctrl + b + x = kill "window"
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* Ctrl + b + w = interactive "window" selection
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* Ctrl + b + d = detach tmux (return with `tmux attach`)
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## WeeChat
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Time to finally go to IRC. Go to tmux first and there run `weechat` (or
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if your distribution has ancient version of WeeChat, `weechat-curses`, but
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in that case you should upgrade (if your distribution is
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[Debian/Ubuntu/Raspbian, use this repository](https://weechat.org/download/debian/))).
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WeeChat welcomes you and suggests you to read at least the quickstart
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guide and recommends reading user's guide too, but in this case we
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can skip those.
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First we must connect to the network where the support channel of our
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distribution is.
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1. Add the network to WeeChat.
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* freenode: `/server add freenode chat.freenode.net/6697 -ssl -autoconnect`
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2. Connect there.
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* `/connect freenode`
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3. Join the channel of your distribution.
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* `/join #distribution`
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* you can also join multiple channels at once by separating them by
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commas e.g. `/join #channel,#channel2`.
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You might want to have friendly channel listing and be able to click the
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channels with mouse? That is why you installed perl and gpm (you might
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need to `sudo systemctl start gpm` or whatever init system you use).
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1. `/script install buffers.pl`
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2. `/mouse enable`
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Now you should see bar with the core buffer (`weechat`), server buffers
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merged to it (`freenode`) and `#distribution`. If mouse doesn't work, you
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can `/buffer X` where X is the number to move. For moving between merged
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buffers move to the buffer and press Ctrl + x.
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And the last thing, if you need to see just plain lines without
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sidebars or anything, press `alt + l` (`alt` can be replaced with `esc`).
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## pastebinit
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You are often wanted to pastebin something which can be difficult without
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GUI. Luckily there is pastebinit which you can use instead of typing
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everyting by hand.
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Usage:
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* `pastebinit file.txt` to pastebin the content of `file.txt`
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* `dmesg | pastebinit` to pastebin output of `dmesg`
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Pastebinit replies by givig you address to the paste which you can then
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give to IRC.
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Alternatives to pastebinit with some pastebins:
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* [ix.io](http://ix.io/): `command | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io`
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* [sprunge.us](http://sprunge.us/): `command | curl -F 'sprunge=<-' http://sprunge.us`
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These also answer by giving you link to the paste.
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## Further reading
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* tmux
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* [my ~/.tmux/tmux.conf](https://github.com/Mikaela/shell-things/blob/master/conf/tmux.conf)
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* [TMUX – The Terminal Multiplexer (Part 1) | Hawk Host Blog](http://blog.hawkhost.com/2010/06/28/tmux-the-terminal-multiplexer/)
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* [TMUX – The Terminal Multiplexer (Part 2) | Hawk Host Blog](http://blog.hawkhost.com/2010/07/02/tmux-%E2%80%93-the-terminal-multiplexer-part-2/)
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* `man tmux`
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* WeeChat
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* [WeeChat documentation index (multiple languages)[https://weechat.org/doc/)
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* [Quick Start guide](https://weechat.org/files/doc/stable/weechat_quickstart.en.html)
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* [User's guide](https://weechat.org/files/doc/stable/weechat_user.en.html)
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* [FAQ](https://weechat.org/files/doc/weechat_faq.en.html)
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* [My IRC page](https://mikaela.info/irc/)
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* At the time of writing there are two posts about WeeChat.
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* pastebinit
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* [pastebinit homepage](https://www.stgraber.org/category/pastebinit/)
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* `man pastebinit`
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