Cabal

p2p chat software

cabal is a place where mesh conspirators can talk about p2p topics in a p2p way

see cabal-node for the underlying database & api


chat with us:
npx cabal --key cabal://4ae5ec168a9f6b45b9d35e3cc1d0f4e3a436000d37fae8f53b3f8dadfe8f192f

Installation

``
git clone https://github.com/cabal-club/cabal-client.git
cd cabal-client
npm install
`




Usage


#### Start a new instance:
`
node cli.js --db --nick
`

#### Connect to an existing instance:
`
node cli.js --key --nick
`
e.g.
`
node cli.js --key cabal://4ae5ec168a9f6b45b9d35e3cc1d0f4e3a436000d37fae8f53b3f8dadfe8f192f --nick voynich

`

#### Headless mode

This will run cabal without a UI. You can use this to seed a cabal (e.g. on a VPS) and make its data more available:
`
node cli.js --key --seeder
`

Commands


`
/channels
display channels you can join
/names
display a list of the people currently online
/join
join a channel
/j
alias for /join
/nick
pick a new username
/n
alias for /nick
/emote
write an old-school text emote
/me
alias for /emote
/clear
clear the current backlog
/debug
debug the underlying hyperdb's keys
/help
display a help message of the current commands
/quit
exit cabal
`

Hotkeys

ctrl+u
    clear input line
ctrl+w
    delete last word in input
up-arrow
    cycle through command history
down-arrow
    cycle through command history
home
    go to start of input line
end
    go to end of input line
ctrl+n
    go to next channel
ctrl+p
    go to previous channel
pageup
    scroll up through backlog
pagedown
    scroll down through backlog
alt-[1,9]`
    select channels 1-9