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PROGRAM:

NAME

primitivus - Salut à Toi's console interface

SYNOPSIS

primitivus [ --profile=PROFILE | --help ]

DESCRIPTION

Primitivus is Salut à Toi's console interface, based on Urwid.

Primitivus is modal (vi-like), one can switch from one mode to another in the same way as
in vi/vim:

· From any mode, press [Esc] to switch to normal mode.

· From normal mode, press : to switch to command mode.

· From normal mode, press i to switch to insert mode — the one you use to write messages
to your contacts.

Primitivus can be handled either with the mouse, in a very intuitive way, or with the
keyboard. The keyboard shortcuts are explained in the section KEYBOARD HANDLING.

OPTIONS

--profile=PROFILE
-p PROFILE
select the profile to use

--help
-h display a help message and quit

KEYBOARD HANDLING

In the sequel we use the following shortcuts:

· C stands for Ctrl

· M means Meta, on a PC it is usually the Alt key

· S stands for Shift

Main keys
C-x quit Primitivus

[tab]
C-up/down arrow
change focus

C-f 1
C-f m focus on the menu

C-f 2
C-f b focus on the roster or the chat window

C-f 3
C-f e focus on the edition line

M-m display/hide the menu

C-n show the next notification

C-s hide/redisplay a pop-up window temporarily

F2 hide/display the roster

C-l refresh the screen

Chat rooms
M-j join a chat room

M-p hide/display the list of participants

M-t hide/display timestamps

M-n use/don't use short nicks

M-l hide/display frame decorations

M-s change the room's topic appearance by switching between:

· one single line (the topic is cut if it's too long)

· the full topic

· topic hidden

Edition line
C-a
[home] move the cursor at the beginning of the line

C-e
[end] move the cursor at the end of the line

C-k erase the line, starting at the cursor's position

C-w erase the last word

S-[tab]
invoke completion (dependent on the context)

up/down arrows
browse sent messages history

Contacts
M-d hide/display offline contacts

M-s hide/display contacts' status messages

Card game
space select a card

COMMANDS

The following commands must be typed in command mode (type [Esc] to switch to normal mode,
then the : at the beginning of the command will switch to command mode).

:quit quit Primitivus

:messages
display log messages (see also the SAT_LOG_LEVEL environment variable in sat(1))

:presence [status]
set your presence status. Invoked without argument, a pop-up will allow you to
choose your presence status; otherwise, you can use the following arguments:

online

chat (free to chat)

away (away from keyboard)

dnd (do not disturb)

xa (extended away)

:status [message]
set your status message. Invoked without argument, a pop-up will allow you to enter
a message.

:history
set the number of lines of history to display in the chat window (:history 0 to
clear the window)

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