I don't know how much you actually care, and I'm the nano OP of this comment chain/thread but there are some vims (and emacs) with plugins and what not built in. Only one I can think of off the top of my head is https://spacevim.org/ but theres a bunch. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

On the vim side, you can try https://spacevim.org. Source: about 1 year ago

There's also spacevim: https://spacevim.org/ And to a certain extent the new Helix editor which uses space and context sensitive popup menues for discoverability to great effect IMNHO: https://helix-editor.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Hi, I'm new to using vim I followed the instruction from spacevim.org but this won't work.. Source: about 1 year ago

You can find distributions with plugins for those editors, like Doom Emacs or space vim. These days, I enjoy doing (neo)vim configs (with lua). Both can use the language server protocol (with different plugins or natively in neovims' case) and so you'd get similar setups done like in code. Source: about 1 year ago

Start off using HexChat for a client. You can find channels here: https://netsplit.de/channels/. Source: about 1 year ago

First off, grab yourself an IRC client. On their connection info page Hackint has information for both WeeChat and Hexchat, but you could use any IRC client. Source: about 1 year ago

Gajim is for XMPP. For IRC you need Hexchat or Weechat or something like that. Source: over 1 year ago

Hexchat is one of the more popular ones. Source: over 1 year ago

IRC - Also still around and in some cases, the same as it ever was, albeit with a smaller user base. A list of networks can be found here, and while there are many actively developed IRC clients out there, if you don't know where to start, most people recommend HexChat. Reddit's affiliated network is called Snoonet. mIRC is still actively developed by Khaled Mardam-Bey, so by all means, feel free to give that a... Source: over 2 years ago