Cursed Delta

A ncurses Delta Chat client developed in Python with the urwid library.

Installation

Install Cursed Delta with pip:

$ pip install -U deltachat-cursed

Usage

After installation the command curseddelta should be available, or you can use python3 -m deltachat-cursed. The first time you run curseddelta you need to specify an email and password:

$ curseddelta --email me@example.com --password H4rdPassw0rd

Or if you want to use an already existent account:

$ curseddelta --db /path/to/your/account.db

Tips

• Messages will be displayed in red if someone mentions you.
• You will get a notification if someone mentions you in a group.
• The message marker > will be gray if the message is encrypted, or red if message is not encrypted.
• Message will be gray until it is sent.
• You will see ✓ at the end of the message if it was send, ✓✓ when the message was noticed, or ✖ if message failed to send.
• You can tweak the app colors editing ~/.curseddelta/theme.json
• You can tweak the app keymap editing ~/.curseddelta/keymap.json
• Put global theme, keymap, and config files in /etc/curseddelta/
• You can have per-folder config files, the application search for this files in the current working directory: ./curseddelta-theme.json, ./curseddelta-keymap.json, ./curseddelta.conf
• If you like to use the mouse, you can use the mouse to select chats in the chat list, select the draft area or scroll in the message history.

Default Shortcuts

• Press Esc to leave the draft/editing area.
• Press q to quit the Cursed Delta.
• Press Ctrl + x to toggle the chat list.
• Use Meta + Enter to send the message.
• Use Ctrl + r to reply last message in chat.
• Use Ctrl + o to open attachemnt in the last message in chat.
• You can navigate the chat list with Meta + ↑ and Meta + ↓.
• Vim-like key bindings are also available, use h j k l to navigate between lists, use i to select the draft area and Esc to leave it.
• For shortcuts in the draft/editing area see: urwid_readline

Commands

This are some temporal commands to do things that are not implemented yet using a menu:

• Send /query user@example.com to start a chat with user@example.com
• Send /add user@example.com to add user@example.com to the group where the command is sent.
• Send /kick user@example.com to remove user@example.com from the group where the command is sent.
• Send /part in a group to leave it.
• Send /names in a group to get the member list in the buffer, use Ctrl + l to clear.
• Use /join GroupName to create a group named GroupName
• To send a message starting with / use //

Credits

The user interface is based on ncTelegram

License

Licensed GPLv3+, see the LICENSE file for details.

Copyright © 2020-2022 Cursed Delta contributors.