Freetalk: Overview

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1 Overview

Freetalk is a freely available console based Jabber client-cum-bot. It has many features, but to highlight,

Highly extensible through ‘Scheme’ language. (see Customization) (see Extension language)
Console based client with Readline interface featuring command line editing, history, context sensitive autocompletion etc … (see Tips and Tricks).
Most of the features in Freetalk are fully customizable, either through command line arguments (see Invoking), or startup file (see freetalk.scm)
With a new concept called ‘dynamic-commands’, a command can appear and disappear dynamically, based on the context.
history feature records all your conversions in ~/.freetalk/history/login-id/buddy-name.
Finally, Freetalk is free software. This means that everyone may use it, redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation (see Freetalk License)