X-Git-Url: http://git.silcnet.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=apps%2Firssi%2FREADME;fp=apps%2Firssi%2FREADME;h=7f8fdc77728acb83b8d601243c29cc3443bcb8e1;hb=23c5df1c8b0bfe539d3fa65802186e6e09e044aa;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hpb=0f9738ce962b8498bbed0a75d5fb6fa127e3577f;p=silc.git diff --git a/apps/irssi/README b/apps/irssi/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7f8fdc77 --- /dev/null +++ b/apps/irssi/README @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ + + +irssi, http://irssi.org + + + * 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 finished :) + - 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 + - tss@iki.fi + - cras@ircnet/efnet/opn/silc + - #irssi@ircnet/opn