WeeChat plugin for replacing user defined keywords with specified text.

In order to use it, you have to have WeeChat with Python plugin support compiled in. Than, copy replacer.py to ~/.weechat/python/. You can use any of the Python version - both Python2 and Python3 are supported. You can optionally create symbolic link to this script:

ln -s ~/.weechat/python/replacer.py ~/.weechat/python/autoload/replacer.py

Next, you need to add this replacer_plugin to Weechat completion template, so it'll looks similar to:

/set weechat.completion.default_template "%(nicks)|%(irc_channels)|%(replacer_plugin)"

Next, load the plugin (if you choose to not load it automatically):

/python load replacer.py

Now you all set.

Abbreviations will be stored as json file ~/.weechat/replacement_map.json, which role is to simply persist dictionary object on the filesystem. To add some replacement words, and text which would those words replaced with:

/replacer add foo bar

and than, when you type foo word and press tab key, you should get bar word instead.

Starting from WeeChat 3.2 full XDG paths were implemented, so that there potentially will be a need to move your replacement definition file to move to the new location.

For now, you can do nothing, replacer data file will be still looked in old location, or you can move it to the new location.

If you decide to the migration, default location for the replacement map file will be the $weechat_data_dir which in most of the cases would be ~/.local/share/weechat, unless you;re using --dir or --temp-dir weechats params.

Anyway, if you plan to do the full migration to XDG, and you had your replacement definition file in ~/.weechat/replacement_map.json, and want to move to the XDG location, than you'll want to move your configuration to $XDG_DATA_HOME/weechat, which usually is ~/.local/share/weechat before removing old location. Note, that migrating instructions only applies to the replacer plugin. For WeeChat itself, you'll need to consult WeeChat documentation.

This plugin is on Apache 2 license. See LICENSE for details.