ref: e3891778c83a97906861a85285ea917704999bc0
parent: a5ae981cea9b4fe5371545182c0ee2bd7f49802d
author: jrmu <jrmu@inter9>
date: Wed Oct 4 10:33:06 EDT 2023
IRC on 9
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+# Irc
+
+<http://9front.org/extra/rc/> has wcirc and
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+<http://9front.org/extra/src/> has irc7 and ircs
+
+there are probably newer versions of these in sources, or shithub, or other places
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+<http://code.9front.org/hg/irc7/>
+
+A few TUI IRC clients like irssi and weechat can easily handle 100s of networks with 1000s of channels.
+
+Imagine for a moment 9 had an irc filesystem, similar to the existing ircfs projects [for inferno][1] and [for linux][2]. A general purpose tool can be run inside acme to keep track of any changes within a tree hierarchy. All recently written files can be highlighted inside acme, and the most recently updated file can be jumped to, and a tail of the last few lines displayed. This would be a general purpose replacement not just for irssi and weechat, but would be useful for monitoring any type of communications (email, xmpp, matrix) as well as system logs.
+
+ [1]: https://github.com/Plan9-Archive/ircfs-limbo
+ [2]: https://github.com/machinaut/ircfs
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