Slack-Term

A Slack client for your terminal.

Installation

Binary installation

Download a compatible binary for your system. For convenience, place slack-term in a directory where you can access it from the command line. Usually this is /usr/local/bin.

$ mv slack-term /usr/local/bin

Via Go

If you want you can also get slack-term via Go:

$ go get -u github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term

Setup

Get a slack token, click here
Create a slack-term.json file, place it in your home directory. Below is an an example file, you can leave out the OPTIONAL parts, you are only required to specify a slack_token. Remember that your file should be a valid json file so don't forget to remove the comments.

{
    "slack_token": "yourslacktokenhere",

    // OPTIONAL: set the width of the sidebar (between 1 and 11), default is 1
    "sidebar_width": 3,

    // OPTIONAL: define custom key mappings, defaults are:
    "key_map": {
        "command": {
            "i": "mode-insert",
            "/": "mode-search",
            "k": "channel-up",
            "j": "channel-down",
            "g": "channel-top",
            "G": "channel-bottom",
            "<previous>": "chat-up",
            "C-b": "chat-up",
            "C-u": "chat-up",
            "<next>": "chat-down",
            "C-f": "chat-down",
            "C-d": "chat-down",
            "n": "channel-search-next",
            "N": "channel-search-previous",
            "q": "quit",
            "<f1>": "help"
        },
        "insert": {
            "<left>": "cursor-left",
            "<right>": "cursor-right",
            "<enter>": "send",
            "<escape>": "mode-command",
            "<backspace>": "backspace",
            "C-8": "backspace",
            "<delete>": "delete",
            "<space>": "space"
        },
        "search": {
            "<left>": "cursor-left",
            "<right>": "cursor-right",
            "<escape>": "clear-input",
            "<enter>": "clear-input",
            "<backspace>": "backspace",
            "C-8": "backspace",
            "<delete>": "delete",
            "<space>": "space"
        }
    },

    // OPTIONAL: override the default theme (see wiki for more information),
    // defaults are:
    "theme": {
        "view": {
            "fg": "white",
            "bg": "default",
            "border_fg": "white",
            "border_bg": "white",
            "par_fg": "white",
            "par_label_fg": "white"
        },
        "channel": {
            "prefix": "",
            "icon": "",
            "text": ""
        },
        "message": {
            "time": "",
            "name": "",
            "text": ""
        }
    }
}

Usage

When everything is setup correctly you can run slack-term with the following command:

$ slack-term

You can also specify the location of the config file, this will give you the possibility to run several instances of slack-term with different accounts.

$ slack-term -config [path-to-config-file]

Default Key Mapping

Below are the default key-mapping for slack-term, you can change them in your slack-term.json file.

mode	key	action
command	`i`	insert mode
command	`/`	search mode
command	`k`	move channel cursor up
command	`j`	move channel cursor down
command	`g`	move channel cursor top
command	`G`	move channel cursor bottom
command	`pg-up`	scroll chat pane up
command	`ctrl-b`	scroll chat pane up
command	`ctrl-u`	scroll chat pane up
command	`pg-down`	scroll chat pane down
command	`ctrl-f`	scroll chat pane down
command	`ctrl-d`	scroll chat pane down
command	`n`	next search match
command	`N`	previous search match
command	`q`	quit
command	`f1`	help
insert	`left`	move input cursor left
insert	`right`	move input cursor right
insert	`enter`	send message
insert	`esc`	command mode
search	`esc`	command mode
search	`enter`	command mode