What's LimeChat ?
LimeChat is an IRC client for Mac OS X written on RubyCocoa.
Features
- One window for multiple servers.
- Rich keyboard shortcuts for your comfortable operations.
- Fast and stable.
Requirements
- Mac OS X Tiger and over
Install
Snow Leopard / Leopard
- Download LimeChat 1.5.tbz.
- Extract the downloaded package, and copy LimeChat.app to your Applications folder.
Tiger
- Download RubyCocoa-0.13.2.1-OSX10.4universal.dmg, and install it.
- Download LimeChat 0.20 executable dmg.
- Open the downloaded dmg, and copy LimeChat.app to your Applications folder.
Themes
Source code
For other platforms
Shortcut keys
| Tab | Complete nickname. |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+Tab Opt+Space |
Move to the next unread channel. |
| Ctrl+Shift+Tab Opt+Shift+Space |
Move to the previous unread channel. |
| Opt+Tab | Move back to the previously selected channel. |
| Cmd+Up/Down Cmd+Opt+Up/Down |
Move to the previous/next active channel. |
| Ctrl+Up/Down | Move to the previous/next channel. |
| Cmd+Opt+Left/Right | Move to the previous/next active server. |
| Ctrl+Left/Right | Move to the previous/next server. |
| Cmd+0..9 | Move to the 1st .. 10th channel in the current server. |
| Cmd+Ctrl+1..0 | Move to the 1st .. 10th server. |
| Ctrl+Enter | Send a notice message. |
Contact
- #limechat on chat.freenode.net
- Google Group: LimeChat
- Satoshi Nakagawa
I'll be glad if you would like to donate. Your donation would help further development.
Change log
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- 1.5 (2010.02.03)
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- Added auto rejoin option.
- 1.4 (2010.01.17)
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- EUC-KR support
- Migrate wide.ad.jp servers to irc.ircnet.ne.jp
- Fixed minor bugs
- 1.3 (2009.12.02)
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- SOCKS proxy support
- Expand $nick with current nick in commands
- Allow parameters for /umode
- Use chat.freenode.net instead of irc.freenode.net
- 1.2 (2009.10.14)
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- Added Sparkle auto updater
- Added an option to ignore incoming file transfers
- Renewed hot key recorder
- Fixed encoding fallback bug
- Fixed minor bugs
- 1.1 (2009.08.26)
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- Switched paste service to gist.
- Use threaded hostname resolver for Snow Leopard.
- 1.0 (2009.06.03)
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- Only OS X 10.5 is supported now.
- Embed RubyCocoa.framework into the app.
- Improved crashing bug in 10.5.7.
- Renewed preferences dialog.
- Renewed paste dialog.
- Renewed welcome dialog.
- Added "Notify events in Growl" option in channel properies.
- Assigned shift-tab to move to the previous control.
- Added %@%n: nick format.
- Added show join/leave option.
- Added time stamp format.
- Added "ignore words" option. If text contains any of these words it will be ignored.
- Added "/close peer" command to close a talk.
- Added /omsg and /onotice commands.
- Added support for /notice @#channel.
- Added /m command.
- Query ban list by /ban.
- Open URLs without activation.
- Remember spell checking status across session.
- Fixed a bug in CP949 and other encodings.
- Shorten sending PONG interval.
- Don't allow < and > in URLs.
- Ignore case in URL schemes.
- Don't show the channel list dialog again while /list responses.
- Markers in scrollers should be drawn as 1 point width lines.
- All kind of ops should be colored as ops.
- Work around for buggy bouncers, they don't send 005 replies appropriately.
- Don't show PONG responses.
- Changed an option name from "Dislike words" to "Exclude words".
- Prohibit backspace, delete and space keys for hotkey.
- Fixed a crash when an user changed his nick to the same one except case.
- Fixed a memory leak when enabling SSL.
- Fixed a bug around quick join.
- Fixed a bug, it tried to join channels with names of talks.
- Fixed a bug, the log was kept blank after /clear sometimes.
- Fixed a bug, register to auto op menu was disabled.



