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	lchat.1 - lchat - A line oriented chat front end for ii.
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	1 .Dd May 13, 2018
	2 .Dt LCHAT 1
	3 .Os
	4 .Sh NAME
	5 .Nm lchat
	6 .Nd line chat
	7 .Sh SYNOPSIS
	8 .Nm
	9 .Op Fl aeh
	10 .Op Fl n Ar lines
	11 .Op Fl p Ar prompt
	12 .Op Fl t Ar title
	13 .Op Fl i Ar in
	14 .Op Fl o Ar out
	15 .Op Fl m Ar mode
	16 .Op directory
	17 .Sh DESCRIPTION
	18 The
	19 .Nm
	20 utility is a command line front end for ii-like chat programs.
	21 It uses
	22 .Xr tail 1
	23 in the background to get output lines from
	24 .Ar out .
	25 .Nm
	26 locates the
	27 .Ar in
	28 and
	29 .Ar out
	30 files inside of the
	31 .Ar directory
	32 path.
	33 .sp 1
	34 The options are as follows:
	35 .Bl -tag -width Ds
	36 .It Fl a
	37 Turn off the bell on external line input.
	38 .It Fl e
	39 Allow to enter empty lines.
	40 .It Fl h
	41 Shows usage text.
	42 .It Fl n Ar lines
	43 Shows
	44 .Ar lines
	45 of chat history at startup.
	46 .It Fl p Ar prompt
	47 Use
	48 .Ar prompt
	49 as prompt for the input line.
	50 .It Fl t Ar title
	51 Use
	52 .Ar title
	53 as title for the terminal window.
	54 In a
	55 .Xr tmux 1
	56 or
	57 .Xr screen 1
	58 environment its change the window name instead of the window title.
	59 .It Fl i Ar in
	60 Use path of
	61 .Ar in
	62 as in-file.
	63 Default is 'in'.
	64 This overrides
	65 .Ar directory .
	66 .It Fl o Ar out
	67 Use path of
	68 .Ar out
	69 as out-file.
	70 Default is 'out'.
	71 This overrides
	72 .Ar directory .
	73 .It Fl m Ar mode
	74 Use the specified
	75 .Ar mode .
	76 Currently, the only valid argument is
	77 .Ar emacs .
	78 See
	79 .Sy MODES
	80 for more information
	81 .It Ar directory
	82 Uses
	83 .Ar directory
	84 to search for in and out file.
	85 Default path is the current working directory.
	86 .El
	87 .Sh FILES
	88 .Bl -tag -width Ds
	89 .It .bellmatch
	90 contains regular expressions that controls bell ring on matching input.
	91 .It .filter
	92 If this file exists and has executable permissions, it is used as a filt…
	93 program for the output lines.
	94 This program should read raw lines from stdin and outputs filtered or
	95 transformed lines to stdout.
	96 .It .prompt
	97 contains the prompt string.
	98 .It .title
	99 contains the terminal window title.
	100 .El
	101 .Sh MODES
	102 .Nm
	103 is able to interpret keypresses differently depending on the mode it is
	104 operating in. Each mode defines a set of keybindings and corresponding a…
	105 The mode cannot be changed while
	106 .Nm
	107 is running.
	108 .Sh SEE ALSO
	109 .Xr ii 1 ,
	110 .Xr tail 1
	111 .Sh AUTHORS
	112 .An -nosplit
	113 The
	114 .Nm
	115 program was written by
	116 .An Jan Klemkow Aq Mt [email protected] .