I recently decided to give WeeChat a try. I found that it had a nice new feel and less complicated windowing structure then irssi – at least more intuitive to a vim user.

Here is my weechat config.

On debian you can install it with

    apt-get install weechat-curses weechat-scripts weechat-plugins

I really liked the spell-checking plugin which uses aspell to highlight misspelled words as I type them. One thing I missed was the ability to tab complete words from the /usr/share/words list. So I wrote a short lua script to do it…