circo is a small IRC client for the terminal. It provides a list of views (buffers) to differentiate between channels, users, and other messages. Each buffer has its own input text while other relevant informations such as server and nickname are always visible at the top.
Despite it's minimal design, circo is definitely not a suckless piece of code. It don't even follows in all respect the UNIX philosophy but it provides a very power bridge to the IRC servers with a such small code base. In this regard circo is unique.
Altough it's compactness, circo is a powerful tool with almost all the features one would expect from an IRC client for the console:
- UTF-8 support
- Colors support
- Tab completion
- One screen per chan/user
- Infinite scrolling
- Resize handling
- Commands history
- Raw IRC commands
None of the CTCP specification has been (nor will be) implemented, which means no DCC at all. In other words: direct chat and files sending are not available.
Some refactor and cleanups are needed but it's mostly working.
The circo IRC client is actively developed and I'm having a lot of fun in writing it. If you'll also find yourself having fun with circo, please consider submitting a pull request.