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Timo Sirainen 53b248f6de Sorry for a big update - I still don't have internet connection at home
and this is what I've been doing a few weeks now.. :) You really shouldn't
upgrade to this version without keeping a backup of the working one, since
this will break everything and at least notify list is broken - probably
something else too.

* On the way to 0.8.0 .. Major rewriting/rearranging code. There's
  some changes in behaviour because I'm trying to make Irssi a bit
  more compatible with EPIC.

* libPropList isn't needed anymore - I'm using my own configuration
  library. This is mostly because different proplists worked a bit
  differently everywhere and several people had problems with it.
  It's also yet another extra library that you needed to compile
  Irssi. New configuration library has several advantages:

  You can add comments to configuration file and they also stay
  there when it's saved.

  It's not nearly as vulnerable as proplist. If some error occurs,
  instead of just not reading anything it will try to continue if
  possible. Also the error messages are written to irssi's text
  window instead of stdout.

  It can be managed more easily than proplist - setting/getting the
  configuration is a lot more easier.

* Coding style changes - I'm not using gint, gchar etc. anymore,
  they're just extra pain when moving code to non-glib projects and
  syntax hilighting doesn't work by default with most editors ;)

  Indentation style was also changed to K&R because of some political
  reasons ;) And I'm already starting to like it.. :) It forces me
  to split code to different functions more often and the result is
  that the code gets more readable.

  And finally I'm also using nst' all over the place.

+ /EVAL <commands> - Expand all the special variables from string and
  run it. Commands can be split with ; character. See
  docs/SPECIAL_VARS for more info.
+ Aliases are parsed just like /EVAL - arguments are in $0..$9.
+ Text formats are also parsed like /EVAL, arguments used to be in
  $1..$9, now they're in $0..$8 so it messes up existing themes..
+ /SET [key [value]] - no more the '=' character. Boolean values
  also need to be changed with ON/OFF/TOGGLE values (not yes/no).
  Settings aren't saved to disk until you use /SAVE.
+ /TOGGLE <key> [ON/OFF] - same as /SET <key> TOGGLE


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docs Sorry for a big update - I still don't have internet connection at home 2000-04-14 11:27:14 +00:00
po Irssi 0.7.28 released 2000-03-11 19:18:12 +00:00
scripts Directory should really be named "scripts", not "examples". 2000-03-15 20:49:44 +00:00
servertest Released 0.7.17 1999-10-16 11:05:08 +00:00
src Sorry for a big update - I still don't have internet connection at home 2000-04-14 11:27:14 +00:00
.cvsignore Initial revision 1999-09-03 14:27:29 +00:00
acconfig.h Initial Perl support. 2000-02-20 23:28:50 +00:00
AUTHORS Irssi 0.7.27 released. 2000-02-25 17:03:17 +00:00
autogen.sh Removed .spec.in -> .spec generation since configure does it now. 1999-09-04 11:56:58 +00:00
colorless.theme updated 2000-03-10 23:02:21 +00:00
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configure.in Sorry for a big update - I still don't have internet connection at home 2000-04-14 11:27:14 +00:00
file2header.sh Initial revision 1999-09-03 14:27:29 +00:00
irssi.desktop - polish translation 1999-10-16 12:56:50 +00:00
irssi.gnorba Initial revision 1999-09-03 14:27:29 +00:00
irssi.spec.in Sorry for a big update - I still don't have internet connection at home 2000-04-14 11:27:14 +00:00
Makefile.am Directory should really be named "scripts", not "examples". 2000-03-15 20:49:44 +00:00
NEWS Sorry for a big update - I still don't have internet connection at home 2000-04-14 11:27:14 +00:00
README Sorry for a big update - I still don't have internet connection at home 2000-04-14 11:27:14 +00:00
README-HEBREW Initial revision 1999-09-03 14:27:29 +00:00
split.theme New theme 2000-03-11 18:41:54 +00:00
stamp.h.in Initial revision 1999-09-03 14:27:29 +00:00
TODO Sorry for a big update - I still don't have internet connection at home 2000-04-14 11:27:14 +00:00


irssi


 * ABOUT

Irssi is an IRC client made with GTK+ toolkit and (optional) GNOME
libraries. A small text mode version is also somewhat working, there's
also a really simple daemon version which just loads "bot" plugin. I'd
also like to see KDE version.


 * FEATURES

See docs/COMMANDS file for list of (almost) all commands irssi knows.
See docs/PERL for some documentation of Perl scripting.

I've been asked quite a lot about why should one use irssi, what does it do
that other IRC clients don't? Well, to tell you the truth, I have no idea :)
Still I've got a lot of mails saying it's the best GUI IRC client they've
ever used :) Let's see.. It should be easy to use, it has most of the
features IRC client needs and it's pretty stable. Here's a small list of what
it does:

 - Nice configuration :) Especially the color settings.
 - You can connect to multiple servers. Irssi is also IRC network aware so
   you can specify some settings to work only in specified IRC networks.
 - Automatically connect to IRC server(s) at startup, automatically join to
   channels when connected.
 - All code is nonblocking, it won't hang while connecting to server or
   opening DCC connection. Host lookups are done in separate processes.
 - DCC send, receive and chat with GUI
 - GNOME panel support, channels and queries are displayed in GNOME panel
   where you can easily see which channels have been updated (label turns to
   red) and click in them to open the channel.
 - Doubleclicking URL in text widget launches specified web/ftp/email client,
   also doubleclicking channel/nick join to channel or creates query.
 - Aliases, ignores, autoignoring when flooding, notify lists, completing
   specified words with tab (like home<tab> -> http://my.home.page),
   hilighting lines with specified texts
 - Smart nick completion
 - Configurable logging support
 - Plugins support, creating plugins is really easy.
 - Extremely flexible Perl scripting support.
 - Lots of nice GUI stuff :)


 * PROXY PLUGIN

Usage:

Start irssi-text in screen,
connect to some irc server
/load proxy <password> [ip address to listen [port to listen]]


Finished, default port to listen in is 2777 and default ip is the ip
where your irc server is connected. Now just connect your clients to
the proxy. There's not much features yet, if you want to use multiple
servers you'll need to start multiple irssi-texts now..

 * INSTALLATION

./configure
make
make install

Configure can use these parameters (all of these defaults to yes):

 --with-servertest	Build test irc server which you can use to try crash
                        irc clients
 --with-socks       	Build with socks library
 --with-mysql=dir   	Build with mysql plugin
 --without-gtk       	Build without GTK frontend
 --without-textui	Build without text frontend
 --without-bot		Build without irssibot
 --without-gnome       	Build without GNOME libraries
 --without-gnome-panel	Build without GNOME panel
 --without-imlib	Build without Imlib library (you can use only .xpm
                        files as backgrounds)
 --enable-memdebug     	Enable memory debugging, great for finding memory
			leaks
 --enable-gtk-hebrew    Enable Hebrew support - see README-HEBREW
 --disable-perl		Disable Perl support

There's also some others, you can get a full list with ./configure --help


 * COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS

 --no-applet            Don't start gnome panel applet
 --connect -c <server>  Connect to server at startup
 --port -p <port>         - specify port
 --noconnect -!         Don't autoconnect to any servers at startup
 --nick -n              Specify what nick to use

 * BUGS / SUGGESTIONS

See TODO file if it is already listed in there - if not send me email..


 * AUTHOR

Timo Sirainen, tss@iki.fi, cras/ircnet/#irssi, http://xlife.dhs.org/irssi/