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Profanity(1) General Commands Manual Profanity(1)

NAME

Profanity - a simple console based XMPP chat client.

SYNOPSIS

profanity [-vhd] [-l level]

DESCRIPTION

Profanity is a simple lightweight console based XMPP chat client. It's emphasis is on having a simple and configurable command driven UI, see the homepage at:
 
<http://www.profanity.im>

OPTIONS

-v, --version
Show version information.
-h, --help
Show help on command line arguments.
-a, --account
Auto connect to an account on startup.
-d, --disable-tls
Disable TLS for servers that either don't support it, or claim to but do not complete the handshake.
-l, --log=LEVEL
Set the logging level, LEVEL may be set to DEBUG, INFO (the default), WARN or ERROR.

USING PROFANITY

The user guide can be found at <http://www.profanity.im/userguide.html>.

SEE ALSO

Profanity itself has a lot of built-in help. Check the /help command for more information. Type "/help help" for information on how to use help itself.

CONFIGURATION

Configuration for Profanity is stored in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/profanity/profrc , details on configuring Profanity can be found at <http://www.profanity.im/configuration.html>.

BUGS

Bugs can either be reported by sending a mail directly to:
 
<boothj5web@gmail.com>
 
or to the mailing list at:
 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/profanitydev>
 
or with a Github account by logging issues on the issue tracker at:
 
<https://github.com/boothj5/profanity>

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2012 - 2014 James Booth <boothj5web@gmail.com>. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

AUTHORS/CREDITS

Profanity was written by James Booth <boothj5web@gmail.com> with many contributions from others, see the full list at: <https://github.com/boothj5/profanity/graphs/contributors>
March 2014 Profanity XMPP client