Twitch chat in the terminal

What it looks like

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Keybinds

Normal mode

Key Description
c Go to the chat window chat.
i Enter message input mode for sending messages. Exit this mode with Esc.
? Have the keybinds popup window appear.
q Quit out of the entire application once in the base chat view.
s Open a popup window to switch channels.
Ctrl + f Enter message search mode, which highlights messages in the main window which match the query.
Esc Exits out of layered windows, such as going from the help window to normal view.

Input mode (message sending/searching, channel swapping)

Key Description
Ctrl + w Cuts a single word (from the cursor to the next whitespace).
Ctrl + u Cuts the entire line.
Ctrl + f Move cursor to the right.
Ctrl + b Move cursor to the left.
Ctrl + a Move cursor to the start.
Ctrl + e Move cursor to the end.
Alt + f Move to the end of the next word.
Alt + b Move to the start of the previous word.
Ctrl + t Swap previous character with current character.
Alt + t Swap previous word with current word.
Ctrl + u Remove everything before the cursor.
Ctrl + k Remove everything after the cursor.
Ctrl + w Remove the previous word.
Ctrl + d Remove character to the right.
Enter Confirm the current text to go through (doesn't do anything in message search mode).

Setup

  1. Make sure you have Cargo installed from rust-lang website. Make sure the Cargo binary folder is appended to your $PATH environment variable if you get errors when attempting to install the binary with Cargo.
  2. Copy default-config.toml to a config.toml file. Based on your OS, place the config file in the directories listed below. Any command line options/arguments taken from twt --help (when the binary is eventually installed) will overwrite the corresponding value in the config file.
  3. Get an OAuth token from Twitch, and place the value in the token variable in the config.toml file that you created.
  4. Run cargo install twitch-tui to install the binary. Run the same command in the future to acquire updates.
  5. Running twt in the terminal will launch the application. For CLI options/arguments, run twt --help.

If you have any problems, do not hesitate to submit an issue.

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