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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] .
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