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# Irssi
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[](https://travis-ci.org/irssi/irssi)
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Irssi is a modular chat client that is most commonly known for its
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text mode user interface, but 80% of the code isn't text mode
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specific. We have a working but currently unmaintained GTK2 frontend
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called xirssi. Irssi comes with IRC support built in, and there are
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third party [ICB](https://github.com/jperkin/irssi-icb),
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[SILC](http://www.silcnet.org/),
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[XMPP](http://cybione.org/~irssi-xmpp/) (Jabber),
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[PSYC](https://github.com/electric-blue/irssyc) and
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[Quassel](https://github.com/phhusson/quassel-irssi) protocol modules
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available.
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## Installation
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See the `INSTALL` file.
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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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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 friendly** - 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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channels/connection limit you can just create another connection and
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you hardly notice it. If connection to server is lost, Irssi tries to
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connect back until it's successful. Also channels you were joined
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before disconnection are restored, even if they're "temporarily
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unavailable" because of netsplits, Irssi keeps rejoining back to them.
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Also worth noticing - there's not that stupid "server is bound to this
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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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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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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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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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Completing channel nicks is also pretty intelligent, it first goes
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through the people who have talked to you recently, then the people who
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have talked to anyone recently and only then it fallbacks to rest of
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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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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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which lets you specify exactly what you wish to log and where. Log
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rotating is supported with all the different logging methods, you can
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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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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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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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wanted place at scrollback has always been hard with non-GUI clients. A
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search command that jumps around in scrollback in GUI-style is still
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missing from Irssi, but there's something that's almost as good as it.
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/LASTLOG always shows timestamps when the line was printed, even if you
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didn't have timestamps on. Now doing /SB GOTO \<timestamp\> jumps
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directly to the position in scrollback you wanted. Great feature when
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you want to browse a bit of the discussion what happened when someone
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said your name (as seen in awaylog) or topic was changed (/last
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-topics)
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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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## Bugs / Suggestions
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See the `TODO` file, http://bugs.irssi.org and the GitHub issues if it is
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already listed in there; if not, open an issue on GitHub 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 in #irssi on freenode.
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