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<h1>repartee</h1>
<p>A modern terminal IRC client built with Ratatui, Tokio, and Rust. Inspired by irssi, designed for the future.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
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<div class="card-body">Esc+1–9 window switching, /commands, aliases. If you know irssi, you already know repartee.</div>
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<div class="card-body">Click buffers and nicks, drag to resize side panels. Terminal client, modern interaction.</div>
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<div class="card-body">Batches join/part floods into single events so your scrollback stays readable.</div>
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<div class="card-body">Full IRCv3 suite: server-time, echo-message, away-notify, account tags, BATCH netsplit grouping, SASL SCRAM-SHA-256, and more.</div>
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<div class="card-body">Memory-safe, zero-cost abstractions, fearless concurrency. Built on tokio async runtime.</div>
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<h2>Quick Install</h2>
<pre><code class="language-bash">cargo install repartee
repartee
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<p>That's it. No build steps, no configuration required. Connect to a server with <code>/server add</code> and you're chatting.</p>
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