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# irssi, http://irssi.org
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## Installation
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See `INSTALL` file.
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## Files
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- The `docs/` directory contains several documents:
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- `startup-HOWTO.txt` - new users should read this
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- `manual.txt` - manual I started writing but didn't get it very far :)
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- `perl.txt` - Perl scripting help
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- `formats.txt` - How to use colors, etc. with irssi
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- `faq.txt` - Frequently Asked Questions
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- `special_vars.txt` - some predefined $variables you can use with irssi
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irssi, http://irssi.org
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* INSTALLATION
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See INSTALL file.
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* FILES
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- docs/ directory contains several documents:
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- startup-HOWTO.txt - new users should read this
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- manual.txt - manual I started writing but didn't get it very far :)
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- perl.txt - Perl scripting help
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- formats.txt - How to use colors, etc. with irssi
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- faq.txt - Frequently Asked Questions
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- special_vars.txt - some predefined $variables you can use with irssi
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* ABOUT
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## About
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Irssi is a modular IRC client that currently has only text mode user
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interface, but 80-90% of the code isn't text mode specific, so other
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module available. Support for other protocols like ICQ could be created
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some day too.
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* FEATURES
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## Features
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So what's so great about Irssi? Here's a list of some features I can
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think of currently:
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- Optional automation - There's lots of things Irssi does for you
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- **Optional automation** - There's lots of things Irssi does for you
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automatically that some people like and others just hate. Things like:
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nick completion, creating new window for newly joined channel, creating
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queries when msgs/notices are received or when you send a msg, closing
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queries when it's been idle for some time, etc.
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- Multiserver friendy - I think Irssi has clearly the best support
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- **Multiserver friendy** - I think Irssi has clearly the best support
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for handling multiple server connections. You can have as many as you
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want in as many ircnets as you want. Having several connections in one
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server works too, for example when you hit the (ircnet's) 10
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window, if this window gets closed the connection closes" thing that
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ircII based clients have.
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- Channel automation - You can specify what channels to join to
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- **Channel automation** - You can specify what channels to join to
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immediately after connected to some server or IRC network. After joined
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to channel, Irssi can automatically request ops for you (or do
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anything, actually) from channel's bots.
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- Window content saving - Say /LAYOUT SAVE when you've put all the
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- **Window content saving** - Say /LAYOUT SAVE when you've put all the
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channels and queries to their correct place, and after restarting
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Irssi, the channels will be joined back into windows where they were
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saved.
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- Tab completing anything - You can complete lots of things with tab:
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- **Tab completing anything** - You can complete lots of things with tab:
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nicks, commands, command -options, file names, settings, text format
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names, channels and server names. There's also an excellent /msg
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completion that works transparently with multiple IRC networks.
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the nicks. You can also complete a set of words you've specified, for
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example homepage<tab> changes it to your actual home page URL.
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- Excellent logging - You can log any way you want and as easily or
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- **Excellent logging** - You can log any way you want and as easily or
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hard as you want. With autologging Irssi logs everything to specified
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directory, one file per channel/nick. ircII style /WINDOW LOG ON is
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also supported. There's also the "hard way" of logging - /LOG command
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specify how often you want it to rotate and what kind of time stamp to
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use.
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- Excellent ignoring - You can most probably ignore anything any way
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- **Excellent ignoring** - You can most probably ignore anything any way
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you want. Nick masks, words, regular expressions. You can add
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exceptions to ignores. You can ignore other people's replies in
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channels to nicks you have ignored. You can also specify that the
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specific ignores work only in specific channel(s).
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- Lastlog and scrollback handling - /LASTLOG command has some new
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- **Lastlog and scrollback handling** - /LASTLOG command has some new
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features: -new option checks only lines that came since you last did
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/LASTLOG command, -away option checks new lines since you last went
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away. Regular expression matches work also, of course. Going to some
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-topics)
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* BUGS / SUGGESTIONS
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## Bugs / Suggestions
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See TODO file and http://bugs.irssi.org if it is already listed in there;
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if not open a bugreport on http://bugs.irssi.org or send a mail to
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staff@irssi.org
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See `TODO` file and http://bugs.irssi.org if it is already listed in there;
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if not open a bugreport on http://bugs.irssi.org or [send a mail to
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staff@irssi.org](mailto:staff@irssi.org)
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You can also contact the Irssi developers on #irssi @ EFnet, Freenode, IRCnet,
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Quakenet and Undernet.
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