Things you should know. ======================= * This project makes use of the python-twitter-api to connect to twitter. It can be obtained at http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/ * Your configuration file should go in your home directory, under the name `.chirprc`, and should have the same format as the sample file given. It also advised that you give it user read-only permissions (400) as it is going to contain your password in plaintext. * On typing your posts on the command line : * Right now, no extra processing is done on the message typed after the --. * In fact, this has less to do with the program and more to do with the shell you use, since it hasn't been passed to the program yet. * One way to make sure everything goes alright is to quote your message with single quotes ('), and escape any of those inside. * A sample widget for the zle (zsh) has been included, since that's the shell it was tested on. * For now, the only other option is to leave the message empty, and type it in inside chirp's input loop.