@SYNTAX:bind@ Bind some action to specified keystroke. Remember that all characters in keystrokes are case-sensitive! Uppercase letter usually means that you need to keep SHIFT pressed to get the key to work. Most most commonly used keystrokes are: ^X - Ctrl-X meta-x - Meta-x (Meta is quite often Alt-key in PCs, ESC-x works too) Irssi has by default also defined several other keys which you can use: return - The return/enter key space, backspace - Space / backspace up, down, left, right - Arrow keys cleft, cright - Ctrl-left/right home, end, prior, next - prior = Page Up, next = Page Down insert, delete The keystroke can contain as many key presses as you want, and you can define names for different key sequences to use them more easily (the keys above are done like that). For example, you may want to manage windows with ^W key, so that ^W^C creates new window, ^W^K kills the active window, etc. you may do it like: /BIND ^W^C /WINDOW NEW HIDE /BIND ^W^K /WINDOW KILL But maybe you wish to give these binds to other people who want to use some other key than ^W, then it would be better done as: /BIND ^W key window /BIND window-^C /WINDOW NEW HIDE /BIND window-^K /WINDOW KILL Command can be one of: command - Run any /COMMAND (you could use /COMMAND directly without specifying this) (Cursor movement) backward_character forward_character backward_word forward_word beginning_of_line end_of_line (Scrollback movement) scroll_backward - Previous page scroll_forward - Next page scroll_start - Beginning of the window scroll_end - End of the window (Switching windows) change_window previous_window next_window upper_window lower_window active_window - Go to next window with the highest activity next_window_item - Next channel/query. In empty windows change to next server previous_window_item - Previous channel/query. In empty windows change to previous server (History) backward_history forward_history (Deleting text) backspace delete_character delete_character delete_next_word delete_previous_word delete_to_next_space delete_to_previous_space erase_line erase_to_beg_of_line erase_to_end_of_line (Word completion) word_completion erase_completion check_replaces - Check word replaces (Misc) refresh_screen yank_from_cutbuffer - "Undelete" line transpose_characters - Swap current and previous character insert_text - Insert data to entry line, data may contain $variables. stop_irc - Send SIGSTOP to client (^Z) Examples: Clear screen: /BIND meta-c /CLEAR People with qwertz layout probably want to swap meta-y and meta-z: /BIND meta-z change_window 16 /BIND -delete meta-y