Pidgin(3pm)

🌸 Pidgin 🌸

ok so. <pink>Pidgin</pink> is a Perl extension for the Pidgin instant messenger — and before you ask, yes bestie, it's Pidgin(3pm), a Perl module page, the whole thing. Pull up a chair, we're learning 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use Pidgin;

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. one line, no cap. 🫶

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🦋 ABSTRACT 🦋

This module hands you the interface for running perl scripts as plugins inside Pidgin, with access to the Pidgin Gtk interface functions. that's the whole point of it, and honestly? iconic.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so picture this: this module gives you the interface for using perl scripts as plugins in Pidgin, with access to the Pidgin Gtk interface functions. so devs can write perl scripts that get loaded straight into Pidgin as plugins. and then those scripts can interact with IMs, chats, accounts, the buddy list, pidgin signals, and more. literally so many things. the notebook of features is Not Empty. 💜

and here's the slay part: the API for this perl interface is very similar to the Pidgin C API. so if you already know the C side, you're basically home. you can go peek at it at http://developer.pidgin.im/doxygen/, or in the header files chilling in the Pidgin source tree. go look, it's giving documentation. 📚

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🔥 FUNCTIONS 🔥

ok this is the part where — yeah. it's empty. nothing here. no functions listed. that's not me gatekeeping, bestie, the section is literally just vibes and a heading. 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Pidgin C API documentation — http://developer.pidgin.im/doxygen/
• The Pidgin perl module.
• Pidgin website — http://pidgin.im/

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Etan Reisner, <deryni@gmail.com>

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🎀 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🎀

Copyright 2006 by Etan Reisner

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and that's the tea 🍓 fr fr, this page came to you courtesy of perl v5.42.3, stamped 2026-08-20, and it lives in your man pages as Pidgin(3pm). go write something iconic, bestie 💖✨