I had a small talk with Dan Reed, the author of naim, and he explained away some of the issues I was having with it.
Deleting single words: ^W does this. I’m really an idiot for not remembering that.
Removing group names from the contact list: Use the command ‘/set autosort 1′.
Removing non-aliases from buddy list: Use [...]
naim is a wonderful terminal-based AIM client written by Dan Reed. It sports a variety of features, is robust and stable, and fairly configurable. There are, however, things I dislike about it, and here is a rough list of those things.
The bottom of the program only displays one line of the message you are sending, [...]
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