Cursed Delta

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

Dependencies

deltachat python bindings
urwid
libnotify (optional)

Installation

Install Cursed Delta through pip:

$ sudo pip3 install --upgrade https://github.com/adbenitez/deltachat-cursed/archive/master.tar.gz

If you want notifications (Debian example):

$ sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin

Usage

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

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

To use an already existent account:

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

Tips

Messages will be dispalyed in red if someone mentions you.
You will get a notification if someone mentions you in a group. (needs libnotify)
The message marker '>' will be gray if the message is encrypted, if it is red that means message is not encrypted.
Message will be gray until it is sent.
You will get ✓ when the message is sent, ✓✓ 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
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 text area.
Press q to quit the Cursed Delta.
Use alt+enter to insert a linebreak.
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 ctrl+p and ctrl+n.
Vim-like key bindings are also available, use hjkl to navigate between lists, use i to select the text area and esc to leave it.
You can also use ctrl+u to clear the draft area.

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+u to clear.
Use /join GroupName to create a group with named GroupName
Use /accept n to accept contact request number n (starting from 1)

Credits

The user interface is based on ncTelegram

License

Licensed GPLv3+, see the LICENSE file for details.