primitivus - Salut à Toi's console interface
primitivus [ --profile=PROFILE | --help ]
Primitivus is Salut à Toi's console interface, based on
Urwid.
Primitivus is modal (vi-like), one can switch from one mode to
another in the same way as in vi/vim:
- From any mode, press [Esc] to switch to normal mode.
- From normal mode, press : to switch to command mode.
- From normal mode, press i to switch to insert mode — the one
you use to write messages to your contacts.
Primitivus can be handled either with the mouse, in a very
intuitive way, or with the keyboard. The keyboard shortcuts are explained in
the section KEYBOARD HANDLING.
In the sequel we use the following shortcuts:
- C stands for Ctrl
- M means Meta, on a PC it is usually the Alt key
- S stands for Shift
- C-x
- quit Primitivus
- [tab]
- C-up/down
arrow
- change focus
- C-f 1
- C-f m
- focus on the menu
- C-f 2
- C-f b
- focus on the roster or the chat window
- C-f 3
- C-f e
- focus on the edition line
- M-m
- display/hide the menu
- C-n
- show the next notification
- C-s
- hide/redisplay a pop-up window temporarily
- F2
- hide/display the roster
- C-l
- refresh the screen
- M-j
- join a chat room
- M-p
- hide/display the list of participants
- M-t
- hide/display timestamps
- M-n
- use/don't use short nicks
- M-l
- hide/display frame decorations
- M-s
- change the room's topic appearance by switching between:
- one single line (the topic is cut if it's too long)
- the full topic
- topic hidden
- C-a
- [home]
- move the cursor at the beginning of the line
- C-e
- [end]
- move the cursor at the end of the line
- C-k
- erase the line, starting at the cursor's position
- C-w
- erase the last word
- S-[tab]
- invoke completion (dependent on the context)
- up/down
arrows
- browse sent messages history
- M-d
- hide/display offline contacts
- M-s
- hide/display contacts' status messages
The following commands must be typed in command mode (type
[Esc] to switch to normal mode, then the : at the beginning of
the command will switch to command mode).
- :quit
- quit Primitivus
- :messages
- display log messages (see also the SAT_LOG_LEVEL environment
variable in sat(1))
- :presence [status]
- set your presence status. Invoked without argument, a pop-up will allow
you to choose your presence status; otherwise, you can use the following
arguments:
- :status [message]
- set your status message. Invoked without argument, a pop-up will allow you
to enter a message.
- :history
- set the number of lines of history to display in the chat window
(:history 0 to clear the window)
Salut à Toi was written by Jérôme Poisson
<goffi@goffi.org>.
This man page was converted from the help message and Salut
à Toi's wiki by Matteo Cypriani <mcy@lm7.fr> for the Debian
distribution (2013). It is released under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA 3.0).