As you can probably tell by the topic, I had some free time this weekend
and have created quite possibly the *stupidest* ZSH program ever.

ZIRC is an IRC client.  It hooks into ZLE's asynchronous select()
support and ZSH's builtin TCP support to do everything.  Not a *single*
external, non-zsh command was used in this program.  If you're typing
something at the prompt and someone messages you, it'll simply interrupt
your current prompt, print out the message and let you continue with
your typing.

How to use (additional docs at the top of the script):

*) Source the file (. ./zirc)

*) (Optional) Run zsh_aliases, this sets up some aliases to make it a
bit more comfortable to use.
   me => zirc_action
   msg => zirc_msg
   last => zirc_last
   connect => zirc_connect
   etc...

*) Important commands: command(alias)
   zirc_switch(sw):       change channel focus
   zirc_last(last):       change channel focus to last place with a message
   zirc_query(query):     change focus to username
   zirc_msg(msg):         message to focused user/channel
   zirc_pmsg(pmsg):       message to any user/channel
   zirc_quit(quit):       quit with optional quit message
   zirc_nick(nick):       change nickname
   zirc_connect(connect): connect to IRC server
   zirc_part(part):       Leave channel 
   zirc_help(help):       List zirc commands
   zirc_action(me):       Perform action in focused channel/user

*) Screenshot: 
  (I have my prompt setup to incorporate $ZIRC_CURRENT to show current
  focus)
  http://dump.aeruder.net/zirc.png

I suppose if you were in some not too busy channels, this thing could be
pretty useful, but really, its mostly designed to just be a joke so you
can tell your friends:

"Yea, well, my shell has an IRC client"

Have fun,
Andrew Ruder

P.S. I'm sure there are still some bugs, but I've just got some other
things I should probably be doing this weekend, 0.2 for bug fixes :)

-- 
Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
http://www.aeruder.net