X-Git-Url: http://git.silcnet.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=apps%2Firssi%2FREADME;fp=apps%2Firssi%2FREADME;h=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hb=72c2de619079457f7a68100eb13385275a424a23;hp=d6a88764ed7376b2472fbb48067665ce076e24ba;hpb=e7b6c157b80152bf9fb9266e6bdd93f9fb0db776;p=runtime.git diff --git a/apps/irssi/README b/apps/irssi/README deleted file mode 100644 index d6a88764..00000000 --- a/apps/irssi/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,116 +0,0 @@ - - -irssi, http://irssi.org - - - * INSTALLATION - -See INSTALL file. - - - * FILES - - - docs/ directory contains several documents: - - startup-HOWTO.txt - new users should read this - - manual.txt - manual I started writing but didn't get it very far :) - - perl.txt - Perl scripting help - - formats.txt - How to use colors, etc. with irssi - - faq.txt - Frequently Asked Questions - - special_vars.txt - some predefined $variables you can use with irssi - - - * ABOUT - -Irssi is a modular IRC client that currently has only text mode user -interface, but 80-90% of the code isn't text mode specific, so other -UIs could be created pretty easily. Also, Irssi isn't really even IRC -specific anymore, there's already a working SILC (http://www.silcnet.org) -module available. Support for other protocols like ICQ could be created -some day too. - - - * FEATURES - -So what's so great about Irssi? Here's a list of some features I can -think of currently: - - - Optional automation - There's lots of things Irssi does for you - automatically that some people like and others just hate. Things like: - nick completion, creating new window for newly joined channel, creating - queries when msgs/notices are received or when you send a msg, closing - queries when it's been idle for some time, etc. - - - Multiserver friendy - I think Irssi has clearly the best support - for handling multiple server connections. You can have as many as you - want in as many ircnets as you want. Having several connections in one - server works too, for example when you hit the (ircnet's) 10 - channels/connection limit you can just create another connection and - you hardly notice it. If connection to server is lost, Irssi tries to - connect back until it's successful. Also channels you were joined - before disconnection are restored, even if they're "temporarily - unavailable" because of netsplits, Irssi keeps rejoining back to them. - Also worth noticing - there's not that stupid "server is bound to this - window, if this window gets closed the connection closes" thing that - ircII based clients have. - - - Channel automation - You can specify what channels to join to - immediately after connected to some server or IRC network. After joined - to channel, Irssi can automatically request ops for you (or do - anything, actually) from channel's bots. - - - Window content saving - Say /LAYOUT SAVE when you've put all the - channels and queries to their correct place, and after restarting - Irssi, the channels will be joined back into windows where they were - saved. - - - Tab completing anything - You can complete lots of things with tab: - nicks, commands, command -options, file names, settings, text format - names, channels and server names. There's also an excellent /msg - completion that works transparently with multiple IRC networks. - Completing channel nicks is also pretty intelligent, it first goes - through the people who have talked to you recently, then the people who - have talked to anyone recently and only then it fallbacks to rest of - the nicks. You can also complete a set of words you've specified, for - example homepage changes it to your actual home page URL. - - - Excellent logging - You can log any way you want and as easily or - hard as you want. With autologging Irssi logs everything to specified - directory, one file per channel/nick. ircII style /WINDOW LOG ON is - also supported. There's also the "hard way" of logging - /LOG command - which lets you specify exactly what you wish to log and where. Log - rotating is supported with all the different logging methods, you can - specify how often you want it to rotate and what kind of time stamp to - use. - - - Excellent ignoring - You can most probably ignore anything any way - you want. Nick masks, words, regular expressions. You can add - exceptions to ignores. You can ignore other people's replies in - channels to nicks you have ignored. You can also specify that the - specific ignores work only in specific channel(s). - - - Lastlog and scrollback handling - /LASTLOG command has some new - features: -new option checks only lines that came since you last did - /LASTLOG command, -away option checks new lines since you last went - away. Regular expression matches work also, of course. Going to some - wanted place at scrollback has always been hard with non-GUI clients. A - search command that jumps around in scrollback in GUI-style is still - missing from Irssi, but there's something that's almost as good as it. - /LASTLOG always shows timestamps when the line was printed, even if you - didn't have timestamps on. Now doing /SB GOTO jumps - directly to the position in scrollback you wanted. Great feature when - you want to browse a bit of the discussion what happened when someone - said your name (as seen in awaylog) or topic was changed (/last - -topics) - - - * BUGS / SUGGESTIONS - -See TODO file if it is already listed in there - if not send me email.. - - - * AUTHOR - - - Timo Sirainen - - cras@irssi.org - - cras at ircnet/opn/silc - - #irssi at ircnet/opn, #irssi.fi, #irssi.de and #irssi.pl at ircnet