Pidgin has a cool plugin named “Text Replacement”. It has a built in big mapping between wrong spellings and correct spellings. So recently in #xchat IRC channel, someone asked for auto replace plugin. XChat has plugin for auto replacement, but it doesn’t have a map. You have to make the map yourself. XChat doesn’t allow cool options that pidgin gives (like case sensitive/insensitive or exact match or partial), so the mapping I am providing is case sensitive and exact match. I converted that Pidgin map (which is usually stored in “~/.purple/dict”) into XChat format (stored in “~/.xchat2/replace.conf”) . So, you can download the replace.conf file from the below given link, and can replace your current replace.conf with this file.

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Recently I started using IRC a lot. As I was doing some django, PyQT and KDE/C++ development. Yes, its lot of development. And then whenever I want to ask some question on IRC, I have to use pastebin/dpaste. ( dpaste is developed upon django framework. ). Now, to dpaste any code, I have to switch to Firefox, I have to use mouse as well. I have to copy paste the link to xchat. This was tedious task for me. So, I started making a plugin for xchat so that I could easily paste my code. Fortunately XChat has python plugin interface.

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