nchat(1)
| NCHAT(1) | User Commands | NCHAT(1) |
NAME
nchat - ncurses chat
SYNOPSIS
nchat [OPTION]
DESCRIPTION
nchat is a terminal-based telegram / whatsapp client.
Command-line Options:
- -d, --confdir <DIR>
- use a different directory than ~/.config/nchat
- -e, --verbose
- enable verbose logging
- -ee, --extra-verbose
- enable extra verbose logging
- -h, --help
- display this help and exit
- -k, --keydump
- key code dump mode
- -m, --devmode
- developer mode
- -r, --remove
- remove chat protocol account
- -s, --setup
- set up chat protocol account
- -v, --version
- output version information and exit
- -x, --export <DIR>
- export message cache to specified dir
Interactive Commands:
- PageDn
- history next page
- PageUp
- history previous page
- Tab
- next chat
- Sh-Tab
- previous chat
- Ctrl-f
- jump to unread chat
- Ctrl-g
- toggle show help bar
- Ctrl-l
- toggle show contact list
- Ctrl-n
- goto chat
- Ctrl-p
- toggle show top bar
- Ctrl-q
- quit
- Ctrl-s
- insert emoji
- Ctrl-t
- send file
- Ctrl-x
- send message
- Ctrl-y
- toggle show emojis
- KeyUp
- select message
- Alt-@
- insert mention
- Alt-a
- archive current chat
- Alt-d
- delete/leave current chat
- Alt-e
- external editor compose
- Alt-i
- auto-compose reply
- Alt-n
- search contacts
- Alt-p
- pin/unpin current chat
- Alt-t
- external telephone call
- Alt-/
- find in chat
- Alt-?
- find next in chat
- Alt-$
- external spell check
- Alt-,
- decrease contact list width
- Alt-.
- increase contact list width
Interactive Commands for Selected Message:
- Ctrl-d
- delete selected message
- Ctrl-r
- download attached file
- Ctrl-v
- open/view attached file
- Ctrl-w
- open link
- Ctrl-x
- send reply to selected message
- Ctrl-z
- edit selected message
- Alt-c
- copy selected message to clipboard
- Alt-q
- jump to quoted/replied message
- Alt-r
- forward selected message
- Alt-s
- add/remove reaction on selected message
- Alt-w
- external message viewer
Interactive Commands for Text Input:
- Ctrl-a
- move cursor to start of line
- Ctrl-c
- clear input buffer
- Ctrl-e
- move cursor to end of line
- Ctrl-k
- delete from cursor to end of line
- Ctrl-u
- delete from cursor to start of line
- Alt-Left
- move cursor backward one word
- Alt-Right
- move cursor forward one word
- Alt-Backsp
- delete previous word
- Alt-Delete
- delete next word
- Alt-c
- copy input buffer to clipboard (if no message selected)
- Alt-v
- paste into input buffer from clipboard
- Alt-x
- cut input buffer to clipboard
AUTHOR
Written by Kristofer Berggren.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs at https://github.com/d99kris/nchat
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2019-2026 Kristofer Berggren
License varies by build configuration.
See `nchat --version` for details.
| March 2026 | nchat 5.14.44 |