1 Overview

Freetalk is a freely available console based Jabber client-cum-bot. It has many features, but to highlight,

• Highly extensible through ‘Scheme’ language. (see Customization) (see Extension language)
• Console based client with Readline interface featuring command line editing, history, context sensitive autocompletion etc … (see Tips and Tricks).
• Most of the features in Freetalk are fully customizable, either through command line arguments (see Invoking), or startup file (see freetalk.scm)
• With a new concept called ‘dynamic-commands’, a command can appear and disappear dynamically, based on the context.
• history feature records all your conversions in ~/.freetalk/history/login-id/buddy-name.
• Finally, Freetalk is free software. This means that everyone may use it, redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation (see Freetalk License)