New to k14

• Default quit/away/clientinfo/more message configuration
  /defaults (alias.km, events.km)
• Makes "invisible" text readable with "Fix text with same foreground and background" option
  New CTCP/2 standard support
  /config (echo.km)
• Full compatiblity with DaveG's tcl8.1 hack
• Better ignore support
  /ignore
• MUCH faster text output, as with each new version.
  • INI colors, bold-to-white, and converse (white background) sped up (each one slows down text output by a factor of 2)
  • Without echo.km loaded, kano.tcl's text output is a mere 30-40% slower than xircon alone, with minimal parsing

• New modularization:
  
  • echo.km provides such text output enhancements as INI colors and Bold-to-white
  • events.km provides such extra features as titlebar blinking and DCC windows (and lots more)
  • alias.km provides such unnecessary aliases as timers and pronounce (and, once again, many more)
  • popups.km adds more popups for those more accustomed to using their mice
  • hotkeys.km binds such extra hotkeys as extended-cursor and subst (ctr-shf-e)
  • privmsg.km parses channel text (a little too much, maybe—delete this one if things get slow)

Addons

• BotInvite, which asks bots matching a certain nick and hostmask for an invite to invite-only channels
  RememberBotPass remembers passwords and op commands for almost every type of bot under any type of configuration
  /botinv, /bot, /ops (bots.ka)
• Repeatkick, wordkick, clonekick, and capkick
  /repk, /wkick, /clone, /capk (kick.ka)
• 100% configurable flood protection (nick, public, private, join, ctcp, kick)
  /flud (flood.ka)
• Inline spelling fix
  /spellfix (spellfix.ka)
• Translate from English to several other languages, and vice versa
  View the weather for hundreds of cities across the United States
  Retrieve definitions of words from Webster's Dictionary on MIT's dictionary server
  /translate,/weather, /dict (lookup.ka)
• Paste at one line per second as to avoid flooding
  /config (paste.ka)

• Revolutionary system allowing the user to paste text exactly as he/she saw it: in full color and with all original styles (bold, underline, et cetera)
  PasteWrapping system formats text being pasted, stripping text of indentation and word-wrapping it to the width of your window
  /config (paste.ka)
• Emacs-style hotkeys
  /emacs (emacs.ka)
• Masskick, op, deop, voice, devoice, and kickban
  /mkick, /mop, /mdop, /mv, /mdv, /mkb (mass.ka)
• XDCC and QuickOffer to allow remote downloading of specified files or lists of files
  /xdcc, /qoffer (xdcc.ka)
• Check your mail at regular intervals on a POP e-mail server
  Send email via SMTP
  /pop, /check, /read (mail.ka)
• Games such as scramble, tic-tac-toe, and slots =)
  /scramble, /slot, /ttt, more (games.ka)
tcl8.1 hack)

Customization

• Number pronounciation (e.g., 13 = thirteen)
  /pronounce, /config (alias.km)
• Completely customizable nick completion
  /ncomp
• Away/back system with configurable autoaway
  /config, /away
• Autojoin to join channels on connect as well as to add popup menu items for each autojoin channel
  /ajoin

• INI-colors option allows you to globally customize all colors (not just xircon defaults)
  /config (echo.km)
• Customizable word-highlight
  /hilite (events.km)
• Support for themes to customize almost all major script events
• Create your own custom hotkeys, aliases, and alias shortcuts
  /alias, /hotk, /shortcut (alias.km)

Text manipulation

• Color converse: if you like white backgrounds, you can still use any theme with a black background  and still be able to read it...
  /config (echo.km)
• CleanEcho allows for 200% faster general text output
  /config(echo.km)
• Advanced URL catcher goes beyond xircon's default
  /purl (echo.km)

• Bold-to-white as in some ANSI terminals
  /config (echo.km)
• Analyze-text filter allows you to see hidden control characters
  /analyze (echo.km)
• Option to skip the server's message of the day
  /config
• Relay (play) files to the current window
  /play (alias.km)
• Built-in fast ANSI converter
• Fixes annoying xircon 'trailing ctrl-K' bug

Hotkeys

• Inline nick-completion, filename completion, and URL completion
  <Tab>

• Join last invite
  <Ctrl-I>

Automation and control

• Cleaner but simpler logging functions than xircon's
  /config (echo.km)
• Protect list with active and passive protect states for op, kick, ban, deop (autodeop), and voice (autovoice)
  /prot (events.km)
• Net support for autojoin and potentially other features
  /net, /nets (alias.km)
• Copy incoming files of various extensions to corresponding folders
  /dccext (events.km)
• DCC relay to painlessly redirect a DCC send to another user
  /dcc (alias.km)
• (revert to) LastTopic, (unset) LastBan, (reset) LastUnban, (kickban) LastJoin, and undo-last-massmode
  /lt, /lb, /lu, /lj, /undo
• Weed out empty users or those having certain properties
  /weed (alias.km)
• Nick-based ban setting and removal
  /ban, /unban
• Internal address list for quick and easy bans and access to other features
• Message log and paging system
  /mlog, /config

• Automatic and manual nick-regain systems
  /getnick (alias.km)
• Extensive popup commands for those who prefer using the nicklist
• Remedies IRC's overlapping modes restriction
  /mode
• Channel window stays open even when you cannot rejoin
  (events.km)
• DCC timeout
• Automatically remembers and enters channel keys as if they weren't even there
• User-specific channel-text log
  /said
• Kicks banned users and attempts to unban yourself if you are banned
  /config
• Wall and WallExcept to send messages to large numbers of people
  (alias.km)
• Repeat commands any number of times in succession
  /repeat (alias.km)
• Display the URL currently in your browser
  /url (alias.km)
• Timestamp all windows at once
  /ts (alias.km)

Lookups, connections, and reports

• kFiles client/server link...Download files from right here — www.kano.net — without ever having to load a browser.
  /kfile
• Easy-to-use time zone query
  /tz (alias.km)
• Query two-letter country abbreviations
  /country

• Built-in ident server
  /config
• Detailed textual DCC transfer status reports
  /dccs (alias.km)
• DNS hostname/ip lookup goes a step further by performing reverse lookups
  /dns
• Create raw telnet connections
  /conn, /killc (alias.km)

Basic functions

• Ignore system
  /ignore
• Graphical dialog boxes
  /config
• Permanently ban a user's hostmask
  /perm (alias.km)
• Support for endless amounts of addons, giving complete control of the script to addon authors and allowing for any type of modification

• Manage your notify list
  /notify
• Very comprehensive help system
  /help
• Ignore all CTCP queries with CTCP cloaking
  /cloak
• Dedicated query window
  /msgwin (alias.km, events.km)
• Titlebar flashes on new messages
  /config (events.km)