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Startup How-To
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To new Irssi users (not to new IRC users ..)
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Copyright (c) 2000-2002 by Timo Sirainen, release under [1]GNU FDL 1.1 license.
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Index with some FAQ questions that are answered in the chapter:
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1. First steps
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2. Basic user interface usage
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□ Split windows work in weird way
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□ How can I easily switch between windows?
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□ But alt-1 etc. don’t work!
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3. Server and channel automation
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□ How do I automatically connect to servers at startup?
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□ How do I automatically join to channels at startup?
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□ How do I automatically send commands to server at connect?
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4. Setting up windows and automatically restoring them at startup
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5. Status and msgs windows & message levels
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□ I want /WHOIS to print reply to current window
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□ I want all messages to go to one window, not create new windows
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6. How support for multiple servers works in irssi
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□ I connected to some server that doesn’t respond and now irssi keeps
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trying to reconnect to it again and again, how can I stop it??
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□ I want to have own status and/or msgs window for each servers
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7. /LASTLOG and jumping around in scrollback
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□ How can I save all texts in a window to file?
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8. Logging
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9. Changing keyboard bindings
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□ How do I make F1 key do something?
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10. Proxies and IRC bouncers
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11. Irssi’s settings
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□ For all the ircII people
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12. Statusbar
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□ I loaded a statusbar script but it’s not visible anywhere!
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1. First steps
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IRC Networks are made of servers, and servers have channels. The default config
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has a few predefined networks, to list them:
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/NETWORK LIST
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And to connect to one of those networks and join a channel:
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2021-05-19 15:51:39 -04:00
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/CONNECT liberachat
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/JOIN #irssi
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To add more networks:
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/NETWORK ADD ExampleNet
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Then add some servers (with -auto to automatically connect):
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/SERVER ADD -auto -network ExampleNet irc.example.net
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Automatically join to channels after connected to server:
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/CHANNEL ADD -auto #lounge ExampleNet
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To modify existing networks (or servers, or channels) just ADD again using the
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same name as before. This configures a network to identify with nickserv and
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wait for 2 seconds before joining channels:
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/NETWORK ADD -autosendcmd "/^msg nickserv ident pass;wait 2000" ExampleNet
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If you have irssi 0.8.18 or higher and the irc network supports it, you can use
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SASL instead of nickserv, which is more reliable:
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2021-05-19 15:51:39 -04:00
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/NETWORK ADD -sasl_username yourname -sasl_password yourpassword -sasl_mechanism PLAIN liberachat
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These commands have many more options, see their help for details:
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/HELP NETWORK
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/HELP SERVER
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/HELP CHANNEL
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/HELP
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If you want lines containing your nick to hilight:
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/HILIGHT nick
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Or, for irssi 0.8.18 or higher:
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/SET hilight_nick_matches_everywhere ON
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To get beeps on private messages or highlights:
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/SET beep_msg_level MSGS HILIGHT DCCMSGS
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No other irssi settings are needed (don’t enable bell_beeps), but there may be
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settings to change in your terminal multiplexer (screen/tmux), your terminal,
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or your desktop environment.
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2. Basic user interface usage
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Windows can be scrolled up/down with PgUp and PgDown keys. If they don’t work
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for you, use Meta-p and Meta-n keys. For jumping to beginning or end of the
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buffer, use /SB HOME and /SB END commands.
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By default, irssi uses “hidden windows” for everything. Hidden windows are
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created every time you /JOIN a channel or /QUERY someone. There’s several ways
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you can change between these windows:
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Meta-1, Meta-2, .. Meta-0 - Jump directly between windows 1-10
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Meta-q .. Meta-o - Jump directly between windows 11-19
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/WINDOW <number> - Jump to any window with specified number
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Ctrl-P, Ctrl-N - Jump to previous / next window
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Clearly the easiest way is to use Meta-number keys. Meta usually means the ALT
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key, but if that doesn’t work, you can use ESC.
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Mac OS X users with ALT key issues might prefer using [2]iTerm2 instead of the
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default terminal emulator.
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Alt key as meta, for xterm/rxvt users
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If you use xterm or rxvt, you may need to set a few X resources:
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XTerm*eightBitInput: false
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XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
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With rxvt, you can also specify which key acts as Meta key. So if you want to
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use ALT instead of Windows key for it, use:
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rxvt*modifier: alt
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You could do this by changing the X key mappings:
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xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L"
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And how exactly do you set these X resources? For Debian, there’s /etc/X11/
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Xresources/xterm file where you can put them and it’s read automatically when X
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starts. ~/.Xresources and ~/.Xdefaults files might also work. If you can’t get
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anything else to work, just copy and paste those lines to ~/.Xresources and
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directly call xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources in some xterm. The resources affect
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only the new xterms you start, not existing ones.
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Split windows and window items
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Note: [3]this guide might be a better introduction to window splits
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Irssi also supports split windows, they’ve had some problems in past but I
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think they should work pretty well now :) Here’s some commands related to them:
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/WINDOW NEW - Create new split window
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/WINDOW NEW HIDE - Create new hidden window
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/WINDOW CLOSE - Close split or hidden window
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/WINDOW HIDE [<number>|<name>] - Make the split window hidden window
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/WINDOW SHOW <number>|<name> - Make the hidden window a split window
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/WINDOW SHRINK [<lines>] - Shrink the split window
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/WINDOW GROW [<lines>] - Grow the split window
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/WINDOW BALANCE - Balance the sizes of all split windows
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By default, irssi uses “sticky windowing” for split windows. This means that
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windows created inside one split window cannot be moved to another split window
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without some effort. For example you could have following window layout:
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Split window 1: win#1 - Status window, win#2 - Messages window
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Split window 2: win#3 - IRCnet/#channel1, win#4 - IRCnet/#channel2
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Split window 3: win#5 - efnet/#channel1, win#6 - efnet/#channel2
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When you are in win#1 and press ALT-6, irssi jumps to split window #3 and moves
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the efnet/#channel2 the active window.
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With non-sticky windowing the windows don’t have any relationship with split
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windows, pressing ALT-6 in win#1 moves win#6 to split window 1 and sets it
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active, except if win#6 was already visible in some other split window irssi
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just changes to that split window. This it the way windows work with ircii, if
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you prefer it you can set it with
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/SET autostick_split_windows OFF
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Each window can have multiple channels, queries and other “window items” inside
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them. If you don’t like windows at all, you disable automatic creating of them
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with
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/SET autocreate_windows OFF
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And if you keep all channels in one window, you most probably want the channel
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name printed in each line:
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/SET print_active_channel ON
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If you want to group only some channels or queries in one window, use
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/JOIN -window #channel
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/QUERY -window nick
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3. Server and channel automation
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Irssi’s multiple IRC network support is IMHO very good - at least compared to
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other clients :) Even if you’re only in one IRC network you should group all
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your servers to be in the same IRC network as this helps with reconnecting if
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your primary server breaks and is probably useful in some other ways too :) For
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information how to actually use irssi correctly with multiple servers see the
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chapter 6.
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First you need to have your IRC network set, use /NETWORK command to see if
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it’s already there. If it isn’t, use /NETWORK ADD yournetwork. If you want to
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execute some commands automatically when you’re connected to some network, use
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-autosendcmd option. Here’s some examples:
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/NETWORK ADD -autosendcmd '^msg bot invite' IRCnet
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/NETWORK ADD -autosendcmd "/^msg nickserv ident pass;wait 2000" OFTC
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After that you need to add your servers. For example:
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/SERVER ADD -auto -network IRCnet irc.kpnqwest.fi 6667
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/SERVER ADD -auto -network worknet irc.mycompany.com 6667 password
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The -auto option specifies that this server is automatically connected at
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startup. You don’t need to make more than one server with -auto option to one
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IRC network, other servers are automatically connected in same network if the
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-auto server fails.
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And finally channels:
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/CHANNEL ADD -auto -bots *!*user@host -botcmd "/^msg $0 op pass" #irssi efnet
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/CHANNEL ADD -auto #secret IRCnet password
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-bots and -botcmd should be the only ones needing a bit of explaining. They’re
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used to send commands automatically to bot when channel is joined, usually to
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get ops automatically. You can specify multiple bot masks with -bots option
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separated with spaces (and remember to quote the string then). The $0 in
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-botcmd specifies the first found bot in the list. If you don’t need the bot
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masks (ie. the bot is always with the same nick, like chanserv) you can give
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only the -botcmd option and the command is always sent.
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4. Setting up windows and automatically restoring them at startup
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First connect to all the servers, join the channels and create the queries you
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want. If you want to move the windows or channels around use commands:
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/WINDOW MOVE LEFT/RIGHT/number - move window elsewhere
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/WINDOW ITEM MOVE <number>|<name> - move channel/query to another window
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When everything looks the way you like, use /LAYOUT SAVE command (and /SAVE, if
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you don’t have autosaving enabled) and when you start irssi next time, irssi
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remembers the positions of the channels, queries and everything. This
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“remembering” doesn’t mean that simply using /LAYOUT SAVE would automatically
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make irssi reconnect to all servers and join all channels, you’ll need the /
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SERVER ADD -auto and /CHANNEL ADD -auto commands to do that.
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If you want to change the layout, you just rearrange the layout like you want
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it and use /LAYOUT SAVE again. If you want to remove the layout for some
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reason, use /LAYOUT RESET.
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5. Status and msgs windows & message levels
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By default, all the “extra messages” go to status window. This means pretty
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much all messages that don’t clearly belong to some channel or query. Some
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people like it, some don’t. If you want to remove it, use
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/SET use_status_window OFF
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This doesn’t have any effect until you restart irssi. If you want to remove it
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immediately, just /WINDOW CLOSE it.
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Another common window is “messages window”, where all private messages go. By
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default it’s disabled and query windows are created instead. To make all
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private messages go to msgs window, say:
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/SET use_msgs_window ON
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/SET autocreate_query_level DCCMSGS (or if you don't want queries to
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dcc chats either, say NONE)
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use_msgs_window either doesn’t have any effect until restarting irssi. To
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create it immediately say:
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/WINDOW NEW HIDE - create the window
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/WINDOW NAME (msgs) - name it to "(msgs)"
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/WINDOW LEVEL MSGS - make all private messages go to this window
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/WINDOW MOVE 1 - move it to first window
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Note that neither use_msgs_window nor use_status_window have any effect at all
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if /LAYOUT SAVE has been used.
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This brings us to message levels.. What are they? All messages that irssi
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prints have one or more “message levels”. Most common are PUBLIC for public
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messages in channels, MSGS for private messages and CRAP for all sorts of
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messages with no real classification. You can get a whole list of levels with
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/HELP levels
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Status window has message level ALL -MSGS, meaning that all messages, except
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private messages, without more specific place go to status window. The -MSGS is
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there so it doesn’t conflict with messages window.
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6. How support for multiple servers works in irssi
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ircii and several other clients support multiple servers by placing the
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connection into some window. IRSSI DOES NOT. There is no required relationship
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between window and server. You can connect to 10 servers and manage them all in
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just one window, or join channel in each one of them to one single window if
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you really want to. That being said, here’s how you do connect to new server
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without closing the old connection:
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/CONNECT irc.server.org
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Instead of the /SERVER which disconnects the existing connection. To see list
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of all active connections, use /SERVER without any parameters. You should see a
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list of something like:
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-!- IRCNet: irc.song.fi:6667 (IRCNet)
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-!- OFTC: irc.oftc.net:6667 (OFTC)
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-!- RECON-1: 192.168.0.1:6667 () (02:59 left before reconnecting)
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Here you see that we’re connected to IRCNet and OFTC networks. The IRCNet at
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the beginning is called the “server tag” while the (IRCnet) at the end shows
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the IRC network. Server tag specifies unique tag to refer to the server,
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usually it’s the same as the IRC network. When the IRC network isn’t known it’s
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some part of the server name. When there’s multiple connections to same IRC
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network or server, irssi adds a number after the tag so there could be network,
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network2, network3 etc.
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Server tags beginning with RECON- mean server reconnections. Above we see that
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connection to server at 192.168.0.1 wasn’t successful and irssi will try to
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connect it again in 3 minutes.
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To disconnect one of the servers, or to stop irssi from reconnecting, use
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/DISCONNECT network - disconnect server with tag "network"
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/DISCONNECT recon-1 - stop trying to reconnect to RECON-1 server
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/RMRECONNS - stop all server reconnections
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/RECONNECT recon-1 - immediately try reconnecting back to RECON-1
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/RECONNECT ALL - immediately try reconnecting back to all
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servers in reconnection queue
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Now that you’re connected to all your servers, you’ll have to know how to
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specify which one of them you want to use. One way is to have an empty window,
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like status or msgs window. In it, you can specify which server to set active
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with
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/WINDOW SERVER tag - set server "tag" active
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Ctrl-X - set the next server in list active
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When the server is active, you can use it normally. When there’s multiple
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connected servers, irssi adds [servertag] prefix to all messages in non-channel
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/query messages so you’ll know where it came from.
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Several commands also accept -servertag option to specify which server it
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should use:
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/MSG -tag nick message
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/JOIN -tag #channel
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/QUERY -tag nick
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/MSG tab completion also automatically adds the -tag option when nick isn’t in
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active server.
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Window’s server can be made sticky. When sticky, it will never automatically
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change to anything else, and if server gets disconnected, the window won’t have
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any active server. When the server gets connected again, it is automatically
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set active in the window. To set the window’s server sticky use
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/WINDOW SERVER -sticky tag
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This is useful if you wish to have multiple status or msgs windows, one for
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each server. Here’s how to do them (repeat for each server)
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/WINDOW NEW HIDE
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/WINDOW NAME (status)
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/WINDOW LEVEL ALL -MSGS
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/WINDOW SERVER -sticky network
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/WINDOW NEW HIDE
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/WINDOW NAME (msgs)
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/WINDOW LEVEL MSGS
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/WINDOW SERVER -sticky network
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7. /LASTLOG and jumping around in scrollback
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/LASTLOG command can be used for searching texts in scrollback buffer. Simplest
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usages are
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/LASTLOG word - print all lines with "word" in them
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/LASTLOG word 10 - print last 10 occurances of "word"
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/LASTLOG -topics - print all topic changes
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If there’s more than 1000 lines to be printed, irssi thinks that you probably
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made some mistake and won’t print them without -force option. If you want to
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save the full lastlog to file, use
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/LASTLOG -file ~/irc.log
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With -file option you don’t need -force even if there’s more than 1000 lines. /
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LASTLOG has a lot of other options too, see /HELP lastlog for details.
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Once you’ve found the lines you were interested in, you might want to check the
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discussion around them. Irssi has /SCROLLBACK (or alias /SB) command for
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jumping around in scrollback buffer. Since /LASTLOG prints the timestamp when
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the message was originally printed, you can use /SB GOTO hh:mm to jump directly
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there. To get back to the bottom of scrollback, use /SB END command.
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8. Logging
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Irssi can automatically log important messages when you’re set away (/AWAY
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reason). When you set yourself unaway (/AWAY), the new messages in away log are
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printed to screen. You can configure it with:
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/SET awaylog_level MSGS HILIGHT - Specifies what messages to log
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/SET awaylog_file ~/.irssi/away.log - Specifies the file to use
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Easiest way to start logging with Irssi is to use autologging. With it Irssi
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logs all channels and private messages to specified directory. You can turn it
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on with
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/SET autolog ON
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By default it logs pretty much everything execept CTCPS or CRAP (/WHOIS
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requests, etc). You can specify the logging level yourself with
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/SET autolog_level ALL -CRAP -CLIENTCRAP -CTCPS (this is the default)
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2018-10-29 12:51:48 -04:00
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By default irssi logs to ~/irclogs/<servertag>/<target>.log. You can change
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this with
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/SET autolog_path ~/irclogs/$tag/$0.log (this is the default)
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The path is automatically created if it doesn’t exist. $0 specifies the target
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(channel/nick). You can make irssi automatically rotate the logs by adding date
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/time formats to the file name. The formats are in “man strftime” format. For
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example
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/SET autolog_path ~/irclogs/%Y/$tag/$0.%m-%d.log
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For logging only some specific channels or nicks, see /HELP log
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9. Changing keyboard bindings
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You can change any keyboard binding that terminal lets irssi know about. It
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doesn’t let irssi know everything, so for example shift-backspace can’t be
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bound unless you modify xterm resources somehow.
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/HELP bind tells pretty much everything there is to know about keyboard
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bindings. However, there’s the problem of how to bind some non-standard keys.
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They might differ a bit with each terminal, so you’ll need to find out what
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exactly the keypress produces. Easiest way to check that would be to see what
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it prints in cat. Here’s an example for pressing F1 key:
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[user@host] ~% cat
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^[OP
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So in irssi you would use /BIND ^[OP /ECHO F1 pressed. If you use multiple
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terminals which have different bindings for the key, it would be better to use
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eg.:
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/BIND ^[OP key F1
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/BIND ^[11~ key F1
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/BIND F1 /ECHO F1 pressed.
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10. Proxies and IRC bouncers
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Irssi supports connecting to IRC servers via a proxy. All server connections
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are then made through it, and if you’ve set up everything properly, you don’t
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need to do any /QUOTE SERVER commands manually.
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Here’s an example: You have your bouncer (lets say, BNC or BNC-like) listening
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in irc.bouncer.org port 5000. You want to use it to connect to servers
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irc.dal.net and irc.efnet.org. First you’d need to setup the bouncer:
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/SET use_proxy ON
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/SET proxy_address irc.bouncer.org
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/SET proxy_port 5000
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/SET proxy_password YOUR_BNC_PASSWORD_HERE
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/SET -clear proxy_string
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/SET proxy_string_after conn %s %d
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Then you’ll need to add the server connections. These are done exactly as if
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you’d want to connect directly to them. Nothing special about them:
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/SERVER ADD -auto -network dalnet irc.dal.net
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/SERVER ADD -auto -network efnet irc.efnet.org
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With the proxy /SETs however, irssi now connects to those servers through your
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BNC. All server connections are made through them so you can just forget that
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your bouncer even exists.
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If you don’t want to use the proxy for some reason, there’s -noproxy option
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which you can give to /SERVER and /SERVER ADD commands.
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Proxy specific settings:
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2018-03-06 20:22:58 -05:00
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All proxies except irssi proxy and socks proxy have these settings in common:
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/SET use_proxy ON
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/SET proxy_address <Proxy host address>
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/SET proxy_port <Proxy port>
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HTTP proxy
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Use these settings with HTTP proxies:
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/SET -clear proxy_password
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/EVAL SET proxy_string CONNECT %s:%d HTTP/1.0\n\n
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BNC
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/SET proxy_password your_pass
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/SET -clear proxy_string
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/SET proxy_string_after conn %s %d
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dircproxy
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dircproxy separates the server connections by passwords. So, if you for example
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have network connection with password ircpass and OFTC connection with
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oftcpass, you would do something like this:
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/SET -clear proxy_password
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/SET -clear proxy_string
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/SERVER ADD -auto -network IRCnet fake.network 6667 ircpass
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/SERVER ADD -auto -network OFTC fake.oftc 6667 oftcpass
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The server name and port you give isn’t used anywhere, so you can put anything
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you want in there.
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psyBNC
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psyBNC has internal support for multiple servers. However, it could be a bit
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annoying to use, and some people just use different users for connecting to
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different servers. You can manage this in a bit same way as with dircproxy, by
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creating fake connections:
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/SET -clear proxy_password
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/SET -clear proxy_string
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/NETWORK ADD -user networkuser IRCnet
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/SERVER ADD -auto -network IRCnet fake.network 6667 ircpass
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/NETWORK ADD -user oftcuser OFTC
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/SERVER ADD -auto -network OFTC fake.oftc 6667 oftcpass
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So, you’ll specify the usernames with /NETWORK ADD command, and the user’s
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password with /SERVER ADD.
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Irssi proxy
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Irssi contains it’s own proxy which you can build giving \--with-proxy option
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to configure. You’ll still need to run irssi in a screen to use it though.
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Irssi proxy is a bit different than most proxies, normally proxies create a new
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connection to IRC server when a new client connects to it, but irssi proxy
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shares your existing IRC connection(s) to multiple clients. And even more
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clearly: You can use only one IRC server connection of the irssi proxy to IRC
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with as many clients as you want. Can anyone figure out even more easier ways
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to say this, so I wouldn’t need to try to explain this thing for minutes every
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time? :)
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Irssi proxy supports sharing multiple server connections in different ports,
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like you can share network in port 2777 and efnet in port 2778.
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Usage in proxy side:
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/LOAD proxy
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/SET irssiproxy_password <password>
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/SET irssiproxy_ports <network>=<port> ... (eg. IRCnet=2777 efnet=2778)
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NOTE: you MUST add all the servers you are using to server and network lists
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with /SERVER ADD and /NETWORK ADD. ..Except if you really don’t want to for
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some reason, and you only use one server connection, you may simply set:
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/SET irssiproxy_ports *=2777
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Usage in client side:
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Just connect to the irssi proxy like it is a normal server with password
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specified in /SET irssiproxy_password. For example:
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/SERVER ADD -network IRCnet my.irssi-proxy.org 2777 secret
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/SERVER ADD -network efnet my.irssi-proxy.org 2778 secret
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Irssi proxy works fine with other IRC clients as well.
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SOCKS
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2020-03-16 16:39:33 -04:00
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Irssi can be compiled with socks support (--with-socks option to configure),
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which requires “dante” and routes all connections through the proxy specified
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in the system-wide /etc/socks.conf. This method is known to have issues in Mac
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OS X.
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Note that /SET proxy settings don’t have anything to do with socks.
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Using [4]proxychains-ng is recommended over recompiling irssi.
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Others
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IRC bouncers usually work like IRC servers, and want a password. You can give
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it with:
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/SET proxy_password <password>
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Irssi’s defaults for connect strings are
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/SET proxy_string CONNECT %s %d
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/SET proxy_string_after
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The proxy_string is sent before NICK/USER commands, the proxy_string_after is
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sent after them. %s and %d can be used with both of them.
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11. Irssi’s settings
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Here’s some settings you might want to change (the default value is shown):
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Also check the [5]Settings Documentation
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Queries
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/SET autocreate_own_query ON
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Should new query window be created when you send message to someone (with /
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MSG).
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/SET autocreate_query_level MSGS
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New query window should be created when receiving messages with this level.
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MSGS, DCCMSGS and NOTICES levels work currently. You can disable this with
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/SET -clear autocreate_query_level.
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/SET autoclose_query 0
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Query windows can be automatically closed after certain time of inactivity.
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Queries with unread messages aren’t closed and active window is neither
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never closed. The value is given in seconds.
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Windows
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/SET use_msgs_window OFF
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Create messages window at startup. All private messages go to this window.
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This only makes sense if you’ve disabled automatic query windows. Message
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window can also be created manually with /WINDOW LEVEL MSGS, /WINDOW NAME
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(msgs).
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/SET use_status_window ON
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Create status window at startup. All messages that don’t really have better
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place go here, like all /WHOIS replies etc. Status window can also be
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created manually with /WINDOW LEVEL ALL -MSGS, /WINDOW NAME (status).
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/SET autocreate_windows ON
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Should we create new windows for new window items or just place everything
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in one window
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/SET autoclose_windows ON
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Should window be automatically closed when the last item in them is removed
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(ie. /PART, /UNQUERY).
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/SET reuse_unused_windows OFF
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When finding where to place new window item (channel, query) Irssi first
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tries to use already existing empty windows. If this is set ON, new window
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will always be created for all window items. This setting is ignored if
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autoclose_windows is set ON.
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/SET window_auto_change OFF
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Should Irssi automatically change to automatically created windows -
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usually queries when someone sends you a message. To prevent accidentally
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sending text meant to some other channel/nick, Irssi clears the input
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buffer when changing the window. The text is still in scrollback buffer,
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you can get it back with pressing arrow up key.
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/SET print_active_channel OFF
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When you keep more than one channel in same window, Irssi prints the
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messages coming to active channel as <nick> text and other channels as
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<nick:channel> text. If this setting is set ON, the messages to active
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channels are also printed in the latter way.
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/SET window_history OFF
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Should command history be kept separate for each window.
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User information
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/SET nick
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Your nick name
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/SET alternate_nick
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Your alternate nick.
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/SET user_name
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Your username, if you have ident enabled this doesn’t affect anything
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/SET real_name
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Your real name.
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Server information
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/SET skip_motd OFF
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Should we hide server’s MOTD (Message Of The Day).
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/SET server_reconnect_time 300
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Seconds to wait before connecting to same server again. Don’t set this too
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low since it usually doesn’t help at all - if the host is down, the few
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extra minutes of waiting won’t hurt much.
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/SET lag_max_before_disconnect 300
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Maximum server lag in seconds before disconnecting and trying to reconnect.
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This happens mostly only when network breaks between you and IRC server.
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Appearance
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/SET timestamps ON
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Show timestamps before each message.
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/SET hide_text_style OFF
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Hide all bolds, underlines, MIRC colors, etc.
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/SET show_nickmode ON
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Show the nick’s mode before nick in channels, ie. ops have <@nick>, voices
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<+nick> and others < nick>
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/SET show_nickmode_empty ON
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If the nick doesn’t have a mode, use one space. ie. ON: < nick>, OFF:
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<nick>
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/SET show_quit_once OFF
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Show quit message only once in some of the channel windows the nick was in
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instead of in all windows.
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/SET lag_min_show 100
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Show the server lag in status bar if it’s bigger than this, the unit is 1/
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100 of seconds (ie. the default value of 100 = 1 second).
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/SET indent 10
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When lines are longer than screen width they have to be split to multiple
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lines. This specifies how much space to put at the beginning of the line
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before the text begins. This can be overridden in text formats with %|
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format.
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/SET activity_hide_targets
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If you don’t want to see window activity in some certain channels or
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queries, list them here. For example #boringchannel =bot1 =bot2. If any
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highlighted text or message for you appears in that window, this setting is
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ignored and the activity is shown.
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Nick completion
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/SET completion_auto OFF
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Automatically complete the nick if line begins with start of nick and the
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completion character. Learn to use the tab-completion instead, it’s a lot
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better ;)
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/SET completion_char :
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Completion character to use.
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For all the ircII people
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I don’t like automatic query windows, I don’t like status window, I do like
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msgs window where all messages go:
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/SET autocreate_own_query OFF
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/SET autocreate_query_level DCCMSGS
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/SET use_status_window OFF
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/SET use_msgs_window ON
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Disable automatic window closing when /PARTing channel or /UNQUERYing query:
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/SET autoclose_windows OFF
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/SET reuse_unused_windows ON
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Here’s the settings that make irssi work exactly like ircII in window
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management (send me a note if you can think of more):
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/SET autocreate_own_query OFF
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/SET autocreate_query_level NONE
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/SET use_status_window OFF
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/SET use_msgs_window OFF
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/SET reuse_unused_windows ON
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/SET windows_auto_renumber OFF
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/SET autostick_split_windows OFF
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/SET autoclose_windows OFF
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/SET print_active_channel ON
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12. Statusbar
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/STATUSBAR displays a list of the current statusbars, along with their position
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and visibility:
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Name Type Placement Position Visible
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window window bottom 0 always
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window_inact window bottom 1 inactive
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prompt root bottom 100 always
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topic root top 1 always
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/STATUSBAR <name> prints the statusbar settings (type, placement, position,
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visibility) as well as its items. /STATUSBAR <name> ENABLE|DISABLE enables/
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disables the statusbar. /STATUSBAR <name> RESET resets the statusbar to its
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default settings, or if the statusbar was created by you, it will be removed.
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The statusbar type can be either window or root. If the type is window, then a
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statusbar will be created for each split window, otherwise it will be created
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only once. Placement can be top or bottom, which refers to the top or bottom of
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the screen. Position is a number, the higher the value the lower it will appear
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in-screen. Visible can be always, active or inactive. Active/inactive is useful
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only with split windows; one split window is active and the rest are inactive.
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To adjust these settings, the following commands are available:
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/STATUSBAR <name> TYPE window|root
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/STATUSBAR <name> PLACEMENT top|bottom
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/STATUSBAR <name> POSITION <num>
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/STATUSBAR <name> VISIBLE always|active|inactive
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Statusbar items can also be added or removed via command. Note that when
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loading new statusbar scripts that add items, you will need to specify where
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you want to show the item and how it is aligned. This can be accomplished using
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the below commands:
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/STATUSBAR <name> ADD [-before | -after <item>] [-priority #] [-alignment left|right] <item>
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/STATUSBAR <name> REMOVE <item>
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For statusbar scripts, the item name is usually equivalent to the script name.
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The documentation of the script ought to tell you if this is not the case. For
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example, to add mail.pl before the window activity item, use: /STATUSBAR window
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ADD -before act mail.
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References:
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2020-03-16 16:39:33 -04:00
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[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html
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[2] https://www.iterm2.com/
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2020-03-16 16:39:33 -04:00
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[3] https://quadpoint.org/articles/irssisplit/
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[4] https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng
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[5] https://irssi.org/documentation/settings/
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