Snipe
snipe is a text-oriented (currently curses-based) "instant" messaging client intended for services with persistence. One such service is roost, which is a frontend for zephyr. snipe is also has minimal support for IRCCloud.
At the moment, to get it working, you need python 3.4. (3.3 might be sufficient but I have not tested it) and the aiohttp library; there is a fork of aiohttp with minimal debian packaging at my github.
M-g in the messager window requires parsedatetime.
It points itself at roost-api.mit.edu by default. If you want to override that, you can use the roost.url config key. At the moment, you need to set up subscriptions by some other means; import-subs in the roost-python repo is useful for this.
It is known that there are bugs and missing features everywhere. I would mostly characterize this as "demoable" but not yet "usable". As always, if it breaks you get to keep both pieces.
Keybindings
(the Meta (Alt?) prefix can always be typed as Escape)
All Windows
| key | binding |
|---|---|
| ^X ^C | Quit |
| ^Z | Suspend |
| ^X 2 | Split current window |
| ^X 0 | delete current window |
| ^X 1 | delete other windows |
| ^X o | switch windows |
| ^X e | pop up an empty editor window |
| ^X 4 m | split to a messager window |
| ^X 4 / | split to a messager window with a specified filter |
| Meta–Escape | evaluate python expressions |
| Meta–= | set configuration keys (^U Alt-= shows you the current configuration) |
| Meta–[number], ^U | emacs-like arguments |
| ^L | force a reframe |
Most Windows
| key | binding |
|---|---|
| ^V, ⇟ | Page Down |
| Meta–v, ⇞ | Page Up |
"Messager" windows
| key | binding |
|---|---|
| p, ↑ | previous message |
| n, ↓ | next message |
| {, Meta–p | previous message like this one |
| }, Meta–n | previous message like this one |
| [ | previous "stark" point(best guess as when you scrolled to the bottom and stopped reading) |
| ] | next "stark" point |
| . | set a "stark" point |
| s | send a message (see Sending, below) |
| f | followup (publicly, if applicable) to the current message |
| r | reply (privately) to the current message |
| Meta–<, ↖, Shift-↖ | First (currently loaded) |
| Meta–>, ↘, Shift-↘ | Last message |
| ^X [ | previous day |
| ^X ] | next day |
| ^Space, ^@ | set mark |
| ^X ^X | exchange point and mark |
| Meta-g | goto an absolute time in the message window |
| / 0, Meta–/ 0 | Reset the filter to the default |
| / =, Meta–/ = | Edit the current filter |
| / -, Meta–- | Filter everything |
| / g, Meta–/ g | set a foreground/background color rule for the current filter (and reset) |
| / f, Meta–/ f | set a foreground color rule for the current filter (and reset) |
| / b, Meta–/ b | set a background color rule for the current filter (and reset) |
| / c, Meta–/ c | push an approximate match filter on a specified class |
| / p, Meta–/ p | push a filter on personal messages |
| / s, Meta–/ s | push a filter on specified sender |
| / /, Meta–/ / | push a filter based on the current message. More ^Us increase specificity, if the backend supports it |
| / w, Meta–/ Meta–/ | pop the filter stack |
| / S, Meta–/ S | Save the current filter (with a prefix, save as the default) |
| Meta–i | popup a window with gunk about the current message |
| R S | dump zephyr (roost) subscriptions into a window |
| R s | subscribe to a zephyr class |
| R u | unsubscribe from a zephyr class |
"Editor" windows
Basically emacs, for now
| key | binding |
|---|---|
| ^F, → | forward character |
| ^B, ← | backward character |
| ^N, ↓ | next line |
| ^P, ↑ | previous line |
| ^A, ↖ | beginning of line |
| ^E, ↘ | end of line |
| Meta–<, Shift-↖ | Beginning of buffer |
| Meta–>, Shift-↘ | End of buffer |
| Meta–f | forward word |
| Meta–b | backward word |
| Meta–w | copy region |
| ^Space, ^@ | set mark |
| ^X ^X | exchange point and mark |
| ^D, ⌦ | delete character forward |
| ^H, ^?, ⌫ | delete character barckward |
| ^X f | set fill column |
| ^K | kill to end of line |
| ^W | kill region |
| ^Y | yank |
| Meta-y | yank-pop |
| ^_, ^X u | undo |
| ^T | transpose characters |
| ^O | open line |
| Meta-^H, Meta-⌫ | kill word backwards |
| Meta-d | kill word forwards |
| ^X i | insert file |
| ^X ^Q | toggle readonly |
"Sender"/"Prompt" windows are like "Editor" windows except
| key | binding |
|---|---|
| ^J, ^C ^C | send message, complete operation |
| ^X 0, ^G | delete current window & abort operation |
| Meta-p | previous history |
| Meta-n | next history |
| [tab] | where appropriate, complete |
Replies, specifically
| key | binding |
|---|---|
| ^C ^Y | yank replied-to-message with '> ' prefix |
Sending
The "general" form of an address for sending is backendname; address, where address is a ascii blob entirely determined by the
backend. For the roost backend, it looks (and behaves) a lot like the arguments
to zwrite; e.g. roost; -c kcr -i snipe or roost;kcr. You can
abbreviate the backend name to the shortest unique prefix, which in
the case of roost and irccloud are, conveniently, r and i
respectively.
For the irccloud backend, addresses are of the form irccloud; server.domain.name recipient,
e.g. irccloud; irc.debian.org kcr. You can use unique substrings of the server name; e.g.
i;debian #debian-devel.
