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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
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+<!--
+
+WeeChat documentation (english version)
+
+Copyright (c) 2003-2008 by FlashCode <flashcode@flashtux.org>
+
+This manual is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+-->
+
+<section id="secPluginFifo">
+  <title>FIFO plugin</title>
+  
+  <para>
+    You can remote control WeeChat, by sending commands or text to a
+    FIFO pipe (if option "plugins.var.fifo.fifo" is enabled, it is by default).
+  </para>
+  
+  <para>
+    The FIFO pipe is located in "<literal>~/.weechat/</literal>" and is
+    called "weechat_fifo_xxxxx" (where xxxxx is the process ID (PID) of
+    running WeeChat).
+  </para>
+  
+  <para>
+    Syntax for the FIFO pipe commands/text is one of following:
+    <screen>
+      category,name *text or command here
+      name *text or command here
+      *text or command here
+    </screen>
+  </para>
+  
+  <para>
+    Some examples:
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          nick change on freenode to "mynick|out" :
+          <screen><prompt>$ </prompt><userinput>echo 'freenode,freenode */nick mynick|out' &gt;~/.weechat/weechat_fifo_12345</userinput></screen>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          display text on #weechat channel:
+          <screen><prompt>$ </prompt><userinput>echo 'freenode,#weechat *hello everybody!' >~/.weechat/weechat_fifo_12345</userinput></screen>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          display text on current channel (buffer displayed by WeeChat):
+          <screen><prompt>$ </prompt><userinput>echo '*hello!' >~/.weechat/weechat_fifo_12345</userinput></screen>
+          <emphasis>Warning:</emphasis> this is dangerous and you should
+          not do that except if you know what you do!
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          send two commands to unload/reload Perl scripts (you have to
+          separate them with "\n"):
+          <screen><prompt>$ </prompt><userinput>echo -e " weechat,weechat */perl unload\nweechat,weechat */perl autoload" >~/.weechat/weechat_fifo_12345</userinput></screen>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </para>
+  
+  <para>
+    You can write a script to send command to all running WeeChat at same
+    time, for example:
+<screen>
+#!/bin/sh
+if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
+    for fifo in ~/.weechat/weechat_fifo_*
+    do
+        echo -e "$1" >$fifo
+    done
+fi
+</screen>
+    If the script is called "auto_weechat_command", you can run it with:
+<screen><prompt>$ </prompt><userinput>./auto_weechat_command "freenode,#weechat *hello"</userinput></screen>
+  </para>
+  
+</section>