A Slack client for your terminal.
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
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 .
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
-
Get a slack token, click here
-
Running
slack-term
for the first time, will create a default config file at~/.config/slack-term/config
.
$ slack-term
- Update the config file and update your
slack_token
For more configuration options of theconfig
file, see the wiki.
{
"slack_token": "yourslacktokenhere"
}
When everything is setup correctly you can run slack-term
with the following
command:
$ slack-term
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 |