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-irssi, http://irssi.org
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- * 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<tab> 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 <timestamp> 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
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