To new Irssi users (not to new IRC users ..)
- Copyright (c) 2000-2001 by Timo Sirainen
+ Copyright (c) 2000-2002 by Timo Sirainen
Index with some FAQ questions that are answered in the chapter:
1. For all the lazy people
2. Basic user interface usage
+ + Split windows work in weird way
3. Server and channel automation
- + how do I automatically connect to servers at startup?
- + how do I automatically join to channels at startup?
+ + How do I automatically connect to servers at startup?
+ + How do I automatically join to channels at startup?
4. Setting up windows and automatically restoring them at startup
5. Status and msgs windows & message levels
+ I want /WHOIS to print reply to current window
7. /LASTLOG and jumping around in scrollback
+ How can I save all texts in a window to file?
8. Logging
- 9. Proxies and IRC bouncers
- 10. Irssi's settings
+ 9. Changing keyboard bindings
+ + How do I make F1 key do something?
+ 10. Proxies and IRC bouncers
+ 11. Irssi's settings
1. For all the lazy people
Instead of the /SERVER which disconnects the existing connection. To
see list of all active connections, use /SERVER without any
parameters. You should see a list of something like:
- -!- IRCNet: irc.telia.fi:6667 (IRCNet)
+ -!- IRCNet: irc.song.fi:6667 (IRCNet)
-!- OPN: tolkien.openprojects.net:6667 (OPN)
-!- RECON-1: 192.168.0.1:6667 () (02:59 left before reconnecting)
/LASTLOG word 10 - print last 10 occurances of "word"
/LASTLOG -topics - print all topic changes
- If there's more lines to be printed than 1000, irssi doesn't thinks
- that you probably made some mistake and won't print them without
- -force option. If you want to save the full lastlog to file, use
+ If there's more than 1000 lines to be printed, irssi thinks that you
+ probably made some mistake and won't print them without -force option.
+ If you want to save the full lastlog to file, use
/LASTLOG -file ~/irc.log
With -file option you don't need -force even if there's more than 1000
For logging only some specific channels or nicks, see /HELP log
- 9. Proxies and IRC bouncers
+ 9. Changing keyboard bindings
+
+ You can change any keyboard binding that terminal lets irssi know
+ about. It doesn't let irssi know everything, so for example
+ shift-backspace can't be bound unless you modify xterm resources
+ somehow.
+
+ /HELP bind tells pretty much everything there is to know about
+ keyboard bindings. However, there's the problem of how to bind some
+ non-standard keys. They might differ a bit with each terminal, so
+ you'll need to find out what exactly the keypress produces. Easiest
+ way to check that would be to see what it prints in "cat". Here's an
+ example for pressing F1 key:
+[cras@hurina] ~% cat
+^[OP
+
+ So in irssi you would use /BIND ^[OP /ECHO F1 pressed. If you use
+ multiple terminals which have different bindings for the key, it would
+ be better to use eg.:
+/BIND ^[OP key F1
+/BIND ^[11~ key F1
+/BIND F1 /ECHO F1 pressed.
+
+ 10. Proxies and IRC bouncers
Irssi supports connecting to IRC servers via a proxy. All proxies have
these settings in common:
/SET -clear proxy_password
/EVAL SET proxy_string CONNECT %s:%d\n\n
+ BNC
+ /SET proxy_password your_pass
+ /SET -clear proxy_string
+ /SET proxy_string conn %s %d
+
+ dircproxy
+
+ dircproxy separates the server connections by passwords. So, if you
+ for example have ircnet connection with password ircpass and
+ openprojects connection with opnpass, you would do something like
+ this:
+ /SET -clear proxy_password
+ /SET -clear proxy_string
+
+ /SERVER ADD -auto -ircnet ircnet fake.ircnet 6667 ircpass
+ /SERVER ADD -auto -ircnet opn fake.opn 6667 opnpass
+
+ The server name and port you give isn't used anywhere, so you can put
+ anything you want in there.
+
Irssi proxy
Irssi contains it's own proxy which you can build giving --with-proxy
ports, like you can share ircnet in port 2777 and efnet in port 2778.
Usage in proxy side:
- /LOAD irc_proxy (/LOAD proxy in irssi 0.7.98.3 and older)
+ /LOAD proxy
/SET irssiproxy_password <password>
/SET irssiproxy_ports <ircnet>=<port> ... (eg. ircnet=2777 efnet=2778)
lists with /SERVER ADD and /IRCNET ADD. ..Except if you really don't
want to for some reason, and you only use one server connection, you
may simply set:
- /SET irssiproxy_ports *=2777 (irssi 0.7.99 and later only)
+ /SET irssiproxy_ports *=2777
Usage in client side:
can give it with:
/SET proxy_password <password>
- Irssi's default for connect string is
+ Irssi's defaults for connect strings are
/SET proxy_string CONNECT %s %d
+ /SET proxy_string_after
- which you can modify according to your bouncer's needs.
+ The proxy_string is sent before NICK/USER commands, the
+ proxy_string_after is sent after them. %s and %d can be used with both
+ of them.
- 10. Irssi's settings
+ 11. Irssi's settings
You probably don't like Irssi's default settings. I don't like them.
But I'm still convinced that they're pretty good defaults. Here's some
Show quit message only once in some of the channel windows the
nick was in instead of in all windows.
- /SET topicbar ON
- Show the channel's topic in top of screen.
-
/SET lag_min_show 100
Show the server lag in status bar if it's bigger than this, the
unit is 1/100 of seconds (ie. the default value of 100 = 1
message for you appears in that window, this setting is ignored
and the activity is shown.
- /SET mail_counter ON
- Show the number of mails in your mbox in status bar. The mbox
- file is taken from $MAIL environment setting. Only mbox format
- works for now.
-
- Nick completion
+ Nick completion
- /SET completion_auto OFF
- Automatically complete the nick if line begins with start of
- nick and the completion character. Learn to use the
- tab-completion instead, it's a lot better ;)
+ /SET completion_auto OFF
+ Automatically complete the nick if line begins with start
+ of nick and the completion character. Learn to use the
+ tab-completion instead, it's a lot better ;)
- /SET completion_char :
- Completion character to use.
+ /SET completion_char :
+ Completion character to use.
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