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- FAQ
-
-Q: Why doesn't irssi display colors even when ircii etc. displays them?
-A: They force ANSI colors even if terminal doesn't support them. By
- default, irssi uses colors only if terminfo/termcap so says. The
- correct way to fix this would be to change your TERM environment to a
- value where colors work, like xterm-color or color_xterm (eg.
- TERM=xterm-color irssi). If this doesn't help, then use the evil way
- of /SET term_force_colors ON.
-
-Q: How do I easily write text to channel that starts with '/' character?
-A: / /text
-
-Q: Why doesn't irssi update my realname (or whatever) after I change it with
- /SET realname and reconnect with /RECONNECT or /SERVER?
-A: Irssi is trying to be too smart. This will be fixed in future, but
- for now you should use /DISCONNECT and /CONNECT.
-
-Q: I connected to some server which isn't responding but now irssi tries to
- connect back to it all the time! How can I stop it?
-A: Two ways. The "good way" to do it is with /DISCONNECT. Check the
- server tags first with /SERVER without giving it any parameters,
- reconnections are those that have tag starting with "recon" text. So
- most probably you're going to do /DISCONNECT recon-1. The other way is
- to remove all the reconnections with /RMRECONNS, easier but may remove
- some connections you actually wanted to reconnect (if you used
- multiple servers..).
-
-Q: How do I add seconds to timestamp?
-A: /FORMAT timestamp {timestamp %%H:%%M:%%S} - and remember to add the
- trailing space :)
-
-Q: Why does irssi say "Irssi: Channel not fully synchronized yet, try again
- after a while" when I try to use /BAN etc?
-A: Possibly a bug in irssi, or ircd you're using does something that
- irssi didn't really notice. The new code should make this happen far
- less often than before, but one known reason for this is when irssi
- doesn't notice that you were unable to join some channel. Currently
- however I don't know of any such events irssi doesn't know about.
-
- Anyway, if this does happen, do /RAWLOG SAVE ~/rawlog soon after
- joining to channel, and either try to figure out yourself why irssi
- didn't get reply to WHO request, or send the whole log to
- cras@irssi.org. Note that the rawlog is by default only 200 lines and
- it may not be enough to show all needed information, so you might want
- to do /SET rawlog_lines 1000 or so.
-
- MODE +b still works fine though.
-
-Q: Where's the GUI version?
-A: Read http://irssi.org/?page=about
-
-Q: How do I autorejoin channels after being kicked?
-A: That's evil and you shouldn't do it. If you get kicked, you should
- stay out, at least until the channel forgot you existed :) Most
- channels I've joined just ban you if you autorejoin after kick. If
- you're joined to channels who kick people for fun, try changing
- channels or something.
-
- Anyway, if you REALLY want to do that, and you understand that you're
- doing evilness, you can use the autorejoin.pl script that comes with
- irssi. You'll still need to specify the channels you wish to rejoin
- with /SET autorejoin_channels #chan1 #chan2 ...
-
-Q: How do I announce that I'm away/back in all channels I've joined? Or how
- do I change my nick when setting myself away/back?
-A: That's even worse than autorejoin. Who could possibly care every
- time you come and go? Many channels will kick you for using this, and
- I for example have added several ignores so I'd never need to see
- these messages. Learn to use /AWAY command properly and tell it's
- existence to people who don't know about it. /WII yournick shows your
- away reason much better for people who actually want to know if you're
- there or not.
-
- You can script these behaviours if you really wish to of course. But
- currently there's no public scripts for either of these, and the only
- way I'm going to add such to irssi.org is if the script contains a
- setting to specify which specific channels the announcement is sent.
-
-Q: Why does irssi autojoin on invite by default?
-A: The setting is /SET join_auto_chans_on_invite - it's not the same
- as regular autojoin-on-invite, which irssi doesn't even have. The only
- channels that are joined on invite, are the ones you've added to
- config with /CHANNEL ADD -auto. This is very useful with +i channels
- when you need to first send an invite request to bot, or if you get
- accidentally kicked from channel, the kicker can invite you back
- immediately.
-
- I don't see any bad side effects with this feature, so it's ON by
- default. I guess someone could start kicking/inviting you all the time
- but server connection shouldn't drop because of that, and you
- shouldn't join channels whose operators are that evil.
-
-Q: How to make UTF-8 support work with irssi?
-A: xterm -u8, screen -U, /SET term_type utf-8
-
-Q: Will there be /DETACH-like feature?
-A: Maybe. Detach code already is there, attach is just missing :) But
- I don't have much interest in coding it, and screen works just fine so
- why bother?
-
-Q: How do I run scripts automatically at startup?
-A: Put them into ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun/ directory. Or better would
- be if you placed them in ~/.irssi/scripts/ and created symlinks to
- autorun directory (eg. cd ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun/ ; ln -s
- ../script.pl .)
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