TTTC is an unofficial Telegram commandline client. It aims to provide a user experience similar to that of VIM.
Currently, there is no way of changing the keybindings in a config. This is subject to change in a future update.
The default key bindings are
| Key | Function |
|---|---|
| i | Enter insert mode (to compose a message) |
| Y, Return | Send message |
| Esc | Cancel, Exit current mode |
| c/C | Previous/Next Dialog |
| E | Toggle emoji ASCII display |
n e |
Edit message n (ESC to open prompt to save changes) |
n r |
Reply to message n (submit draft) |
n d |
Delete message n |
n y |
Yank/copy message n |
n l |
Download media of message n |
n L |
(Re)Download media of message n (force) |
n m |
Open downloaded file of message n with xdg-open |
n o |
Open link(s) in message n. Use TAB to select between multiple links |
n f |
Adds message n to the list of messages to be forwarded. Press return to select chat, return again to forward to selected chat |
| P | (Un)Pin the currently selected chat |
| UP/DOWN | Scroll up/down in the history of the currently selected dialog |
| / | enter search mode |
| n/N | Previous/Next search result |
| Q | exit TTTC |
q r |
Record macro into register r |
TTTC uses the curses, pyperclip and telethon python libraries. Curses is usually shipped with
your python installation. You can install the required libraries with pip install -r requirements.txt.
In order to use TTTC, you will need your own Telegram api_id and api_hash.
You can read more about how to get them here.
Once you obtained your own api key and hash, you need to set them as your environment variables
TTTC_API_ID and TTTC_API_HASH, respectively.
The client can be run with python3 tttc.py.