Cursed Delta

a lightweight Delta Chat client for the command line

Cursed Delta is a ncurses Delta Chat client developed in Python with the urwid library.

Features

• Create accounts
• Tweak account configuration (ex. set display name and status)
• Ability to send text messages :)
• Read receipts ✓✓
• Display quoted messages
• Account switcher
• Chat operations: delete, pin/unpin, mute/unmute, archive/unarchive, add/remove members, etc.
• Message operations: reply, delete, open attachment/links, see info, jump to quote
• Import/export keys and backups
• Ability to send files
• Notifications
• Support for contact verification and group invitations links
• Block/unblock contacts and see the list of blocked contacts
• See contact list
• Search messages and chats
• Open HTML messages
• View archived chats

Installation

Install Cursed Delta with pip:

$ pip install -U deltachat-cursed

This program depends on the deltachat-rpc-server program to be installed in your system, if you want to try to install it using pip run:

$ pip install -U deltachat-cursed[full]

After installation the command delta should be available. For more tips and info check the user guide