Fast, light and extensible chat client - console client

 WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light chat client
 for many operating systems. Everything can be done with a keyboard.
 It is customizable and extensible with plugins/scripts, and includes:
  - support of IRC protocol (native)
  - support of XMPP/Jabber protocol (with additional script)
  - nicklist
  - smart hotlist
  - horizontal and vertical split
  - double charset support (decode/encode)
  - FIFO pipe for remote control
  - 256 colors support
  - incremental text search
  - dynamic filtering of buffer content
  - Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, Scheme and PHP scripting
  - script manager
  - spell checking
  - highly customizable and extensible
  - and much more!
 .
 This package provides the console client (ncurses).