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.Dd February  7, 2020
.Dt CATGIRL 1
.Os
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.Sh NAME
.Nm catgirl
.Nd IRC client
.
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl ev
.Op Fl a Ar auth
.Op Fl c Ar cert
.Op Fl h Ar host
.Op Fl j Ar join
.Op Fl k Ar priv
.Op Fl n Ar nick
.Op Fl p Ar port
.Op Fl r Ar real
.Op Fl u Ar user
.Op Fl w Ar pass
.Op Ar config ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
program is a TLS-only
curses IRC client.
.
.Pp
Options can be loaded from files
listed on the command line.
Files are searched for in
.Pa $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/catgirl
unless the path starts with
.Ql /
or
.Ql \&. .
Each option is placed on a line,
and lines beginning with
.Ql #
are ignored.
The options are listed below
following their corresponding flags.
.
.Pp
The arguments are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl a Ar user Ns : Ns Ar pass , Cm sasl-plain = Ar user Ns : Ns Ar pass
Authenticate as
.Ar user
with
.Ar pass
using SASL PLAIN.
Since this requires the account password
in plain text,
it is recommended to use SASL EXTERNAL instead with
.Fl e .
.
.It Fl c Ar path , Cm cert = Ar path
Load the TLS client certificate from
.Ar path .
If the private key is in a separate file,
it is loaded with
.Fl k .
With
.Fl e ,
authenticate using SASL EXTERNAL.
.
.It Fl e , Cm sasl-external
Authenticate using SASL EXTERNAL,
also known as CertFP.
The TLS client certificate is loaded with
.Fl c .
.
.It Fl h Ar host , Cm host = Ar host
Connect to
.Ar host .
.
.It Fl j Ar join , Cm join = Ar join
Join the comma-separated list of channels
.Ar join .
.
.It Fl k Ar path , Cm priv = Ar priv
Load the TLS client private key from
.Ar path .
.
.It Fl n Ar nick , Cm nick = Ar nick
Set nickname to
.Ar nick .
The default nickname is the user's name.
.
.It Fl p Ar port , Cm port = Ar port
Connect to
.Ar port .
The default port is 6697.
.
.It Fl r Ar real , Cm real = Ar real
Set realname to
.Ar real .
The default realname is the same as the nickname.
.
.It Fl u Ar user , Cm user = Ar user
Set username to
.Ar user .
The default username is the same as the nickname.
.
.It Fl v , Cm debug
Log raw IRC messages to the
.Sy <debug>
window
as well as standard error
if it is not a terminal.
.
.It Fl w Ar pass , Cm pass = Ar pass
Log in with the server password
.Ar pass .
.El
.
.Sh COMMANDS
.Ss Chat Commands
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Ic /join Ar channel
Join a channel.
.It Ic /me Op Ar action
Send an action message.
.It Ic /notice Ar message
Send a notice.
.It Ic /quit Op Ar message
Quit IRC.
.It Ic /quote Ar command
Send a raw IRC command.
.El
.
.Ss UI Commands
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Ic /window Ar name
Switch to window by name.
.It Ic /window Ar num , Ic / Ns Ar num
Switch to window by number.
.El
.
.Sh KEY BINDINGS
.Ss Line Editing
.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
.It Ic C-a
Move to beginning of line.
.It Ic C-e
Move to end of line.
.It Ic C-u
Delete line.
.El
.
.Ss Window Keys
.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
.It Ic C-l
Redraw the UI.
.It Ic M-m
Insert a blank line in the window.
.It Ic M- Ns Ar n
Switch to window by number 0\(en9.
.El
.
.Ss IRC Formatting
.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
.It Ic C-z b
Toggle bold.
.It Ic C-z c
Set or reset color.
.It Ic C-z i
Toggle italics.
.It Ic C-z o
Reset formatting.
.It Ic C-z r
Toggle reverse color.
.It Ic C-z u
Toggle underline.
.El
.
.Pp
To set colors, follow
.Ic C-z c
by one or two digits for the foreground color,
optionally followed by a comma
and one or two digits for the background color.
To reset color, follow
.Ic C-z c
by a non-digit.
.
.Pp
The color numbers are as follows:
.Pp
.Bl -column "99" "orange (dark yellow)" "15" "pink (light magenta)"
.It \ 0 Ta white Ta \ 8 Ta yellow
.It \ 1 Ta black Ta \ 9 Ta light green
.It \ 2 Ta blue Ta 10 Ta cyan
.It \ 3 Ta green Ta 11 Ta light cyan
.It \ 4 Ta red Ta 12 Ta light blue
.It \ 5 Ta brown (dark red) Ta 13 Ta pink (light magenta)
.It \ 6 Ta magenta Ta 14 Ta gray
.It \ 7 Ta orange (dark yellow) Ta 15 Ta light gray
.It 99 Ta default
.El
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.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Pa $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/catgirl
Configuration files are search for first in
.Ev $XDG_CONFIG_HOME ,
usually
.Pa ~/.config ,
followed by the colon-separated list of paths
.Ev $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS ,
usually
.Pa /etc/xdg .
.It Pa ~/.config/catgirl
The most likely location of configuration files.
.El
.
.Sh EXAMPLES
Command line:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
catgirl -h chat.freenode.net -j '#ascii.town'
.Ed
.Pp
Configuration file:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
host = chat.freenode.net
join = #ascii.town
.Ed
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.Sh STANDARDS
.Bl -item
.It
.Rs
.%A Waldo Bastian
.%A Ryan Lortie
.%A Lennart Poettering
.%T XDG Base Directory Specification
.%D November 24, 2010
.%U https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
.Re
.
.It
.Rs
.%A Kyle Fuller
.%A St\('ephan Kochen
.%A Alexey Sokolov
.%A James Wheare
.%T IRCv3.2 server-time Extension
.%I IRCv3 Working Group
.%U https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/server-time-3.2
.Re
.
.It
.Rs
.%A Lee Hardy
.%A Perry Lorier
.%A Kevin L. Mitchell
.%A William Pitcock
.%T IRCv3.1 Client Capability Negotiation
.%I IRCv3 Working Group
.%U https://ircv3.net/specs/core/capability-negotiation-3.1.html
.Re
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.It
.Rs
.%A S. Josefsson
.%T The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings
.%I IETF
.%N RFC 4648
.%D October 2006
.%U https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648
.Re
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.It
.Rs
.%A C. Kalt
.%T Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol
.%I IETF
.%N RFC 2812
.%D April 2000
.%U https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2812
.Re
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.It
.Rs
.%A Mantas Mikul\[u0117]nas
.%T IRCv3.2 userhost-in-names Extension
.%I IRCv3 Working Group
.%U https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/userhost-in-names-3.2
.Re
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.It
.Rs
.%A Daniel Oaks
.%T IRC Formatting
.%I ircdocs
.%U https://modern.ircdocs.horse/formatting.html
.Re
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.It
.Rs
.%A William Pitcock
.%A Jilles Tjoelker
.%T IRCv3.1 SASL Authentication
.%I IRCv3 Working Group
.%U https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/sasl-3.1.html
.Re
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.It
.Rs
.%A Alexey Sokolov
.%A St\('ephan Kochen
.%A Kyle Fuller
.%A Kiyoshi Aman
.%A James Wheare
.%T IRCv3 Message Tags
.%I IRCv3 Working Group
.%U https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/message-tags
.Re
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.It
.Rs
.%A K. Zeilenga, Ed.
.%T The PLAIN Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Mechanism
.%I IETF
.%N RFC 4616
.%D August 2006
.%U https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4616
.Re
.El
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.Sh AUTHORS
.An June Bug Aq Mt june@causal.agency
.
.Sh BUGS
Send mail to
.Aq Mt june@causal.agency
or join
.Li #ascii.town
on
.Li chat.freenode.net .