Q: Why doesn't irssi display colors even when ircii etc. displays them?
-A: Irssi uses curses, ircii and others don't (no, not even if ldd says they
- use it). Curses decides if terminal supports colors based on the TERM
- variable, so changing it should help. Some values to try when running
- in xterm are: xterm, xterm-color and color_xterm.
-
-Q: Why does irssi crash when pressing Ctrl-4?
-A: Most unices are usually configured to send SIGQUIT to active process when
- Ctrl-\ is pressed. Some terminals also treat Ctrl-4 and Ctrl-\ equally, so
- Irssi will die to SIGQUIT. Two ways to fix this: change it to something
- else with stty (stty quit undef) or in irssi /SET ignore_signals quit
-
-Q: Where's the GUI version?
-A: Read http://irssi.org/?page=about
+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.
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: 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
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
+ 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: IRC server you use is coded badly, do something like this:
- /IRCNET ADD -querychans 1 quakenet
- /SERVER ADD -ircnet quakenet irc.quakenet.org
- /SAVE
- After that /CONNECT quakenet should work properly (NOTE: when you do this
- the first time you'll have to /DISCONNECT and /CONNECT again, /SERVER
- doesn't work correctly).
+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.
+
+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.
+
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