+ 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. If this doesn't help, then use the
- evil way of /SET term_force_colors ON.
+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 + /CONNECT.
+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: 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
+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 tss@iki.fi. 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.
+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.
+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 .)
+
+Q: How do I easily edit existing topic?
+A: /TOPIC <tab>
+Q: How can I have /WHOIS replies to active window?
+A: Currently there's no other way than to close the status window, or
+ at least do /WINDOW LEVEL -CRAP in it, but that would make a lot other
+ messages show up in active window too. I don't have many good ideas
+ how this could be easily fixed inside irssi (no, kludging it to only
+ work with whois isn't a "fix") - it'd be possible to create a script
+ do this though but currently it doesn't exist.
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