irssi -- Modular text-mode IRC client<hr>
<a href="http://irssi.org/">http://irssi.org/</a><hr>
Irssi is a modular IRC client that currently has only text mode user
interface, but 80-90% of the code isn't text mode specific so other
UI could be created pretty easily. Also, Irssi isn't really even IRC
specific anymore, there's already a working SILC module available.
Support for other protocols like ICQ could be created some day too.
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