<div class="im" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Ian Hinder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.hinder@aei.mpg.de" target="_blank">ian.hinder@aei.mpg.de</a>></span> wrote:</span></div>
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<div style="word-wrap: break-word; "><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">My problem was that I didn't find an easy way to have it connect automatically - I was using Adium in Mac OS. Adium is a multi-protocol chat program, so some of the way it works doesn't fit very naturally with IRC, but I didn't want to run a separate program.</span></div>
</div></div></blockquote><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><br></div></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); ">In the past, the best IRC client I could find for OSX was Colloquy [http://<a href="http://colloquy.info/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">http://colloquy.info/</a>]. It's not perfect, but I remember it being quite good in the past.I know you would rather not run a separate IRC client, but Adium really isn't an ideal solution right now, so you might find it better using Colloquy. You can also then hide the chat window (Cmd+H) rather than minimizing it.</div>
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<div style="word-wrap: break-word; "><div><div>It would be nice to have the channel joined and messages logged even if the chat window was closed, but this doesn't seem to be possible in the currently released version (<a href="http://trac.adium.im/ticket/12068" target="_blank">http://trac.adium.im/ticket/12068</a>). Until this is implemented, I plan to just minimize the window.</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><br></div></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); ">For message logs, you can always just look at the logs on the Cactus website.</div>
<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><div>Another thing which might be useful would be to have commit messages automatically posted to IRC whenever a commit is made.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Barry</div></div></div>