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
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term
$ go install .
Via docker
You can also run it with docker, make sure you have a valid config file on your host system.
docker run -it -v [config-file]:/config erroneousboat/slack-term
Setup
-
Get a slack token, click here
-
Running
slack-termfor the first time, will create a default config file at~/.config/slack-term/config.
$ slack-term
- Update the config file and update your
slack_tokenFor more configuration options of theconfigfile, see the wiki.
{
"slack_token": "yourslacktokenhere"
}
Usage
When everything is setup correctly you can run slack-term with the following command:
$ slack-term
Default Key Mapping
Below are the default key-mappings for slack-term, you can change them in your config 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 | K |
thread up |
| command | J |
thread down |
| 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 | , |
jump to next notification |
| 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 |
