Around OHM2013 I started using Xchat again to manage all the IRC networks I have to be on.
Pidgin simply could not do the job.
However I have to constantly authenticate my self against services. Unfortunately I have lost my ns-authenticate.pl plugin so I wrote a new one
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; Xchat::register('NS Identify', '0.2', 'Identify against NickServ'); Xchat::hook_server( 'Notice', \&ns_identify ); Xchat::hook_print( 'Message Send', \&hide_nickserv ); my %pass = ( 'UniBG' => '', 'FreeNode' => '', 'OFTC' => '' ); # Catch the notices from services and send passwords sub ns_identify { return Xchat::EAT_NONE if !defined($_[0]); if ($_[0][0] =~ /^:NS!NickServ\@UniBG/ && $_[0][3] =~ /^:This/) { Xchat::command("msg NS identify $pass{'UniBG'}"); return Xchat::EAT_NONE; } if ($_[0][0] =~ /^:NickServ!NickServ\@services./ && $_[0][3] =~ /^:This/) { Xchat::command("msg NickServ identify $pass{'FreeNode'}"); return Xchat::EAT_NONE; } return Xchat::EAT_NONE; } # Catch the messages to NS and NickServ and do not show them in the windows and logs. sub hide_nickserv { if (defined($_[0])) { if ($_[0][0] eq 'NS' || $_[0][0] =~ /NickServ/) { return Xchat::EAT_ALL; } } return Xchat::EAT_NONE; }