Freetalk is a console based chat client for Google Hangout and other XMPP servers. It has context sensitive auto-completion for buddy names, commands, and even ordinary English words. Similar to GNU Emacs, You can customize and extend Freetalk with Scheme language.
Latest release: v4.1
$ git clone https://github.com/GNUFreetalk/freetalk.git freetalk.git
$ cd freetalk.git;
$ ./autogen.sh;
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ sudo make install
To start with you can use Freetalk by just running 'freetalk' and then doing
/login to specify your Jabber account and password. To avoid
having to do this every time, you can put your account details in freetalk
startup file called ~/.freetalk/freetalk.scm. Look at other
examples/freetalk.scm to know how to use them
There is comprehensive documentation in info format in the doc/ directory, which you should be able to read by typing:
$ info freetalk
If you face any problems installing, using Freetalk, or if you have any feedback/developer questions, feel free to open Freetalk issues
Freetalk is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <gnu@gnu.org>. There are also other ways to contact the FSF.
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