Telegram client ncurses based console chat

"Telegram secure chat" is a simple ncurses based telegram client called in short telesecure

Program features

• 11 conurent chats allocated and key F2 - F12 for quick access
• At F1 is a command console for telegram client, and it supports:
  • Send quick message to the user without console allocation
  • Create and delete new chat
  • List channels and users
  • Display messages from all users and chats non allocated on buffers
• All opened chats are displayed in the top status bar with initials
  • Current active chat is higlighted with text underline
  • When the user is online on the chat initial on the status bar is yellow
  • When the user is typing message on the chat initial on status bar is blue
  • When the new message arrives from the user * char is added on the status bar

Shortcuts

• F1-F12: Switch between chat buffers
• CTRL+ArrowRight: (FN+ArrowRight (OSX)): Switch to next chat buffer
• CTRL+ArrowLeft: (FN+ArrowLeft (OSX)): Switch to previous chat buffer
• CTRL+C: Exit telegram
• CTRL+P: run command PS on the last buffer
• CTRL+ArrowUp (FN+ArrowUP (OSX)): Rewind history buffer up
• CTRL+ArrowDown (FN+ArrowDown (OSX)): Rewind history buffer up
• CTRL+A: Clear edit window

Supported commands

• msg chat_id message: Send message to the user
• authpass password: Send authentication password when required
• delchat chat_id: Delete chat with particular chat identifier
• authphoneno phone_number: Send phone number for authentication
• authcode code: Pass authentication code
• userlist: List all user in address book
• chatlist: List all chats
• help: List all commands
• authname name: Send user authentication name
• newchat chat_id: Open chat with particular id
• chatlist: List all opened chats
• quit , exit: Close application

Howto build

Prerequisties

• C++ compiler with C++17 support (clang,g++)
• Linux or OSX operating system
• CMake
• readline library (libreadline)
• telegram client library (tdlib)
• boost libraries
• ncurses (libncurses)

Building

mkdir build 
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make

TODO

• Support for last seen time on users
• Maybe unlimited number of buffers with intelligent status bar
• Uploading and downloading media files
• Managing address book (add, remove, edit users)