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+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<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
+ - tss@iki.fi
+ - cras@ircnet/efnet/opn/silc
+ - #irssi@ircnet/opn
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