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Personal cheat sheet

mcabber

https://mcabber.com

$man mcabber
The main UI idea is to switch between chat mode on and off. Inside chat mode user can interact with selected JID and window (can also give commands without typing JID for selected one), out of chat mode user interact with roster (contact list).

Visualization 1

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|                                                                              |
| +------------------+                                +---------------------+  |
| |                  +-------------------------------->                     |  |
| | Chat mode on/off |                                | Force window redraw |  |
| | Esc              +--------------(off)--------+    | C-l                 |  |
| | Enter / i        |                           |    |                     |  |
| |                  +-----------------+         |    +---------------------+  |
| +--------+---------+                 |         |                             |
|          |                           |         |                             |
|        (off)                       (on )       +---------------+             |
|          |                           |                         |             |
| +--------v---------+      +----------v-----------+    +--------v--------+    |
| |                  |      |                      |    |                 |    |
| | Roster up/down   |      | Last command up/down |    | Room join/leave |    |
| | <arrow up/down>  |      | <arrow up/down>      |    | /room join      |    |
| |                  |      |                      |    | /room leave     |    |
| +----+-------------+      +-----+----------+-----+    |                 |    |
|      |                          |          |          +-----------------+    |
|      |        +-(selected JID)--+          |                                 |
|      |        |                            |                                 |
| +----v--------v-----+    +-----------------v------+                          |
| |                   |    |                        |                          |
| | Add/move/del JID  |    | Window content up/down |                          |
| | on the roster     |    | C-p                    |                          |
| | /add              |    | C-n                    |                          |
| | /move             |    |                        |                          |
| | /del              |    +------------------------+                          |
| +-------------------+                                                        |
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