[ILUG] irc clients

[Ruairi Newman]

Hi all,

I recently noticed that some people seem to be die-hard advocates of certain 
irc clients; irssi, BitchX and x-chat to name a few.

I've never really been bothered with scripting and other advanced features of 
irc clients, but I am curious as to the main differences between the popular 
Linux-based irc clients.  Could anyone enlighten me?

I should mention that I'm not trying to start an advocacy war here, but I have 
used irssi for years because it's convenient to leave running in a remote 
screen session, and would like a quick idea of what I'm missing (if anything) 
in other clients.

Thanks,


Ruairi