Cove is a TUI client for euphoria.leet.nu, a threaded real-time chat platform.
It runs on Linux, Windows, and macOS.
To start cove, simply run cove in your terminal. For more info about the
available subcommands such as exporting room logs or resetting cookies, run
cove --help.
If you delete rooms, cove's vault (the database it stores messages and other
things in) won't automatically shrink. If it takes up too much space, try
running cove gc and waiting for it to finish. This isn't done automatically
because it can take quite a while.
A complete list of config options is available in the CONFIG.md
file or via cove help-config.
When launched, cove prints the location it is loading its config file from. To
configure cove, create a config file at that location. This location can be
changed via the --config command line option.
At this point, cove is not available via any package manager.
Cove is available as a Nix Flake. To try it out, you can use
$ nix run --override-input nixpkgs nixpkgs github:Garmelon/cove/latestThis section contains instructions on how to install cove by compiling it yourself. It doesn't assume you know how to program, but it does assume basic familiarity with the command line on your platform of choice. Cove runs in the terminal, after all.
Cove is written in Rust, so the first step is to install rustup. Either install it from your package manager of choice (if you have one) or use the installer.
Test your installation by running rustup --version and cargo --version. If
rustup is installed correctly, both of these should show a version number.
Cove is designed on the current version of the stable toolchain. If cove doesn't compile, you can try switching to the stable toolchain and updating it using the following commands:
$ rustup default stable
$ rustup updateTo install or update to the latest release of cove, run the following command:
$ cargo install --force --git https://github.com/Garmelon/cove --branch latestIf you like to live dangerously and want to install or update to the latest, bleeding-edge, possibly-broken commit from the repo's main branch, run the following command.
Warning: This could corrupt your vault. Make sure to make a backup before running the command.
$ cargo install --force --git https://github.com/Garmelon/coveTo install a specific version of cove, run the following command and substitute in the full version you want to install:
$ cargo install --force --git https://github.com/Garmelon/cove --tag v0.1.0