<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 11 Nov 2011, at 00:34, Barry Wardell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Ian Hinder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.hinder@aei.mpg.de">ian.hinder@aei.mpg.de</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div>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.</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In the past, the best IRC client I could find for OSX was Colloquy [http://<a href="http://colloquy.info/">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></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think I tried it in the past and found it confusing, but I'll try again!</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; "><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><br></div><div>For message logs, you can always just look at the logs on the Cactus website.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Another thing which might be useful would be to have commit messages automatically posted to IRC whenever a commit is made.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think this happens already.</div></div><br><div>
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