Slick is a modular and extendable slack client with a terminal based ui, while also aiming to be simple and intuitive. It has been designed to have an approachable default configuration but to be easily extended with lua.
- Download a release from the releases page here.
- Make slick executable:
chmod 775 slick* - Move slick into your path:
mv slick* /usr/local/bin/slick - Start slick:
slick
- Modal - Slick borrows a text based, modal workflow from vi. Most functionality requires one keypress, or can be easily mapped to a key.
- Scriptable - Add new commands (ie,
/foo) or keyboard bindings (ie, pressa) and bind them to slick commands. Or, write your own functionality in Lua - for example, here's a plugin to encrypt a message to a user on keybase and send it to them via slack. Learn More - Batteries Included - Distributed as a static binary with no dependencies. Installation is simple. Slick is updated automatically on start.
- Not built on electron - Slick is terminal based. Reduce the number of bloated chrome vms running on your system.
And a bunch of smaller things:
- Quick jump to another team / channel with
p - Multiple teams
- Tab completion for file paths
- A lua standard library
- Emoji support
- Extensive theming support - ie, here are a few examples