/slack-term

Slack client for your terminal

Primary LanguageGoMIT LicenseMIT

Slack-Term

A Slack client for your terminal. As of now the application is in a beta state. See issues for known bugs and for features I'm working on at the moment

Screenshot

Getting started

  1. Download a compatible version for your system, and place where you can access it from the command line like, ~/bin, /usr/local/bin, or /usr/local/sbin.

  2. Get a slack token, click here

  3. Create a slack-term.json file, place it in your home directory. The file should resemble the following structure:

    {
    "slack_token": "yourslacktokenhere"

    // add the following to use light theme, default is dark
    "theme": "light"
}

  4. Run slack-term:

    $ slack-term

// or specify the location of the config file
$ slack-term -config [path-to-config-file]

Usage

mode key action
normal i insert mode
normal k move channel cursor up
normal j move channel cursor down
normal pg-up scroll chat pane up
normal ctrl-b scroll chat pane up
normal ctrl-u scroll chat pane up
normal pg-down scroll chat pane down
normal ctrl-f scroll chat pane down
normal ctrl-d scroll chat pane down
normal pg-down scroll chat pane down
normal q quit
insert left move input cursor left
insert right move input cursor right
insert enter send message
insert esc normal mode