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+Startup How-To
+
+To new Irssi users (not to new IRC users ..)
+
+Copyright (c) 2000-2002 by Timo Sirainen, release under [1]GNU FDL 1.1 license.
+
+Index with some FAQ questions that are answered in the chapter:
+
+ 1. First steps
+ 2. Basic user interface usage
+ □ Split windows work in weird way
+ □ How can I easily switch between windows?
+ □ But alt-1 etc. don’t work!
+ 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 send commands to server at connect?
+ 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
+ □ I want all messages to go to one window, not create new windows
+ 6. How support for multiple servers works in irssi
+ □ I connected to some server that doesn’t respond and now irssi keeps
+ trying to reconnect to it again and again, how can I stop it??
+ □ I want to have own status and/or msgs window for each servers
+ 7. /LASTLOG and jumping around in scrollback
+ □ How can I save all texts in a window to file?
+ 8. Logging
+ 9. Changing keyboard bindings
+ □ How do I make F1 key do something?
+10. Proxies and IRC bouncers
+11. Irssi’s settings
+ □ For all the ircII people
+12. Statusbar
+ □ I loaded a statusbar script but it’s not visible anywhere!
+
+1. First steps
+
+IRC Networks are made of servers, and servers have channels. The default config
+has a few predefined networks, to list them:
+
+/NETWORK LIST
+
+And to connect to one of those networks and join a channel:
+
+/CONNECT liberachat
+/JOIN #irssi
+
+To add more networks:
+
+/NETWORK ADD ExampleNet
+
+Then add some servers (with -auto to automatically connect):
+
+/SERVER ADD -auto -network ExampleNet irc.example.net
+
+Automatically join to channels after connected to server:
+
+/CHANNEL ADD -auto #lounge ExampleNet
+
+To modify existing networks (or servers, or channels) just ADD again using the
+same name as before. This configures a network to identify with nickserv and
+wait for 2 seconds before joining channels:
+
+/NETWORK ADD -autosendcmd "/^msg nickserv ident pass;wait 2000" ExampleNet
+
+If you have irssi 0.8.18 or higher and the irc network supports it, you can use
+SASL instead of nickserv, which is more reliable:
+
+/NETWORK ADD -sasl_username yourname -sasl_password yourpassword -sasl_mechanism PLAIN liberachat
+
+These commands have many more options, see their help for details:
+
+/HELP NETWORK
+/HELP SERVER
+/HELP CHANNEL
+/HELP
+
+If you want lines containing your nick to hilight:
+
+/HILIGHT nick
+
+Or, for irssi 0.8.18 or higher:
+
+/SET hilight_nick_matches_everywhere ON
+
+To get beeps on private messages or highlights:
+
+/SET beep_msg_level MSGS HILIGHT DCCMSGS
+
+No other irssi settings are needed (don’t enable bell_beeps), but there may be
+settings to change in your terminal multiplexer (screen/tmux), your terminal,
+or your desktop environment.
+
+2. Basic user interface usage
+
+Windows can be scrolled up/down with PgUp and PgDown keys. If they don’t work
+for you, use Meta-p and Meta-n keys. For jumping to beginning or end of the
+buffer, use /SB HOME and /SB END commands.
+
+By default, irssi uses “hidden windows” for everything. Hidden windows are
+created every time you /JOIN a channel or /QUERY someone. There’s several ways
+you can change between these windows:
+
+Meta-1, Meta-2, .. Meta-0 - Jump directly between windows 1-10
+Meta-q .. Meta-o - Jump directly between windows 11-19
+/WINDOW <number> - Jump to any window with specified number
+Ctrl-P, Ctrl-N - Jump to previous / next window
+
+Clearly the easiest way is to use Meta-number keys. Meta usually means the ALT
+key, but if that doesn’t work, you can use ESC.
+
+Mac OS X users with ALT key issues might prefer using [2]iTerm2 instead of the
+default terminal emulator.
+
+Alt key as meta, for xterm/rxvt users
+
+If you use xterm or rxvt, you may need to set a few X resources:
+
+ XTerm*eightBitInput: false
+ XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
+
+With rxvt, you can also specify which key acts as Meta key. So if you want to
+use ALT instead of Windows key for it, use:
+
+ rxvt*modifier: alt
+
+You could do this by changing the X key mappings:
+
+ xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L"
+
+And how exactly do you set these X resources? For Debian, there’s /etc/X11/
+Xresources/xterm file where you can put them and it’s read automatically when X
+starts. ~/.Xresources and ~/.Xdefaults files might also work. If you can’t get
+anything else to work, just copy and paste those lines to ~/.Xresources and
+directly call xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources in some xterm. The resources affect
+only the new xterms you start, not existing ones.
+
+Split windows and window items
+
+Note: [3]this guide might be a better introduction to window splits
+
+Irssi also supports split windows, they’ve had some problems in past but I
+think they should work pretty well now :) Here’s some commands related to them:
+
+/WINDOW NEW - Create new split window
+/WINDOW NEW HIDE - Create new hidden window
+/WINDOW CLOSE - Close split or hidden window
+
+/WINDOW HIDE [<number>|<name>] - Make the split window hidden window
+/WINDOW SHOW <number>|<name> - Make the hidden window a split window
+
+/WINDOW SHRINK [<lines>] - Shrink the split window
+/WINDOW GROW [<lines>] - Grow the split window
+/WINDOW BALANCE - Balance the sizes of all split windows
+
+By default, irssi uses “sticky windowing” for split windows. This means that
+windows created inside one split window cannot be moved to another split window
+without some effort. For example you could have following window layout:
+
+ Split window 1: win#1 - Status window, win#2 - Messages window
+ Split window 2: win#3 - IRCnet/#channel1, win#4 - IRCnet/#channel2
+ Split window 3: win#5 - efnet/#channel1, win#6 - efnet/#channel2
+
+When you are in win#1 and press ALT-6, irssi jumps to split window #3 and moves
+the efnet/#channel2 the active window.
+
+With non-sticky windowing the windows don’t have any relationship with split
+windows, pressing ALT-6 in win#1 moves win#6 to split window 1 and sets it
+active, except if win#6 was already visible in some other split window irssi
+just changes to that split window. This it the way windows work with ircii, if
+you prefer it you can set it with
+
+/SET autostick_split_windows OFF
+
+Each window can have multiple channels, queries and other “window items” inside
+them. If you don’t like windows at all, you disable automatic creating of them
+with
+
+/SET autocreate_windows OFF
+
+And if you keep all channels in one window, you most probably want the channel
+name printed in each line:
+
+/SET print_active_channel ON
+
+If you want to group only some channels or queries in one window, use
+
+/JOIN -window #channel
+/QUERY -window nick
+
+3. Server and channel automation
+
+Irssi’s multiple IRC network support is IMHO very good - at least compared to
+other clients :) Even if you’re only in one IRC network you should group all
+your servers to be in the same IRC network as this helps with reconnecting if
+your primary server breaks and is probably useful in some other ways too :) For
+information how to actually use irssi correctly with multiple servers see the
+chapter 6.
+
+First you need to have your IRC network set, use /NETWORK command to see if
+it’s already there. If it isn’t, use /NETWORK ADD yournetwork. If you want to
+execute some commands automatically when you’re connected to some network, use
+-autosendcmd option. Here’s some examples:
+
+/NETWORK ADD -autosendcmd '^msg bot invite' IRCnet
+/NETWORK ADD -autosendcmd "/^msg nickserv ident pass;wait 2000" OFTC
+
+After that you need to add your servers. For example:
+
+/SERVER ADD -auto -network IRCnet irc.kpnqwest.fi 6667
+/SERVER ADD -auto -network worknet irc.mycompany.com 6667 password
+
+The -auto option specifies that this server is automatically connected at
+startup. You don’t need to make more than one server with -auto option to one
+IRC network, other servers are automatically connected in same network if the
+-auto server fails.
+
+And finally channels:
+
+/CHANNEL ADD -auto -bots *!*bot@host.org -botcmd "/^msg $0 op pass" #irssi efnet
+/CHANNEL ADD -auto #secret IRCnet password
+
+-bots and -botcmd should be the only ones needing a bit of explaining. They’re
+used to send commands automatically to bot when channel is joined, usually to
+get ops automatically. You can specify multiple bot masks with -bots option
+separated with spaces (and remember to quote the string then). The $0 in
+-botcmd specifies the first found bot in the list. If you don’t need the bot
+masks (ie. the bot is always with the same nick, like chanserv) you can give
+only the -botcmd option and the command is always sent.
+
+4. Setting up windows and automatically restoring them at startup
+
+First connect to all the servers, join the channels and create the queries you
+want. If you want to move the windows or channels around use commands:
+
+/WINDOW MOVE LEFT/RIGHT/number - move window elsewhere
+/WINDOW ITEM MOVE <number>|<name> - move channel/query to another window
+
+When everything looks the way you like, use /LAYOUT SAVE command (and /SAVE, if
+you don’t have autosaving enabled) and when you start irssi next time, irssi
+remembers the positions of the channels, queries and everything. This
+“remembering” doesn’t mean that simply using /LAYOUT SAVE would automatically
+make irssi reconnect to all servers and join all channels, you’ll need the /
+SERVER ADD -auto and /CHANNEL ADD -auto commands to do that.
+
+If you want to change the layout, you just rearrange the layout like you want
+it and use /LAYOUT SAVE again. If you want to remove the layout for some
+reason, use /LAYOUT RESET.
+
+5. Status and msgs windows & message levels
+
+By default, all the “extra messages” go to status window. This means pretty
+much all messages that don’t clearly belong to some channel or query. Some
+people like it, some don’t. If you want to remove it, use
+
+/SET use_status_window OFF
+
+This doesn’t have any effect until you restart irssi. If you want to remove it
+immediately, just /WINDOW CLOSE it.
+
+Another common window is “messages window”, where all private messages go. By
+default it’s disabled and query windows are created instead. To make all
+private messages go to msgs window, say:
+
+/SET use_msgs_window ON
+/SET autocreate_query_level DCCMSGS (or if you don't want queries to
+ dcc chats either, say NONE)
+
+use_msgs_window either doesn’t have any effect until restarting irssi. To
+create it immediately say:
+
+/WINDOW NEW HIDE - create the window
+/WINDOW NAME (msgs) - name it to "(msgs)"
+/WINDOW LEVEL MSGS - make all private messages go to this window
+/WINDOW MOVE 1 - move it to first window
+
+Note that neither use_msgs_window nor use_status_window have any effect at all
+if /LAYOUT SAVE has been used.
+
+This brings us to message levels.. What are they? All messages that irssi
+prints have one or more “message levels”. Most common are PUBLIC for public
+messages in channels, MSGS for private messages and CRAP for all sorts of
+messages with no real classification. You can get a whole list of levels with
+
+/HELP levels
+
+Status window has message level ALL -MSGS, meaning that all messages, except
+private messages, without more specific place go to status window. The -MSGS is
+there so it doesn’t conflict with messages window.
+
+6. How support for multiple servers works in irssi
+
+ircii and several other clients support multiple servers by placing the
+connection into some window. IRSSI DOES NOT. There is no required relationship
+between window and server. You can connect to 10 servers and manage them all in
+just one window, or join channel in each one of them to one single window if
+you really want to. That being said, here’s how you do connect to new server
+without closing the old connection:
+
+/CONNECT irc.server.org
+
+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.song.fi:6667 (IRCNet)
+ -!- OFTC: irc.oftc.net:6667 (OFTC)
+ -!- RECON-1: 192.168.0.1:6667 () (02:59 left before reconnecting)
+
+Here you see that we’re connected to IRCNet and OFTC networks. The IRCNet at
+the beginning is called the “server tag” while the (IRCnet) at the end shows
+the IRC network. Server tag specifies unique tag to refer to the server,
+usually it’s the same as the IRC network. When the IRC network isn’t known it’s
+some part of the server name. When there’s multiple connections to same IRC
+network or server, irssi adds a number after the tag so there could be network,
+network2, network3 etc.
+
+Server tags beginning with RECON- mean server reconnections. Above we see that
+connection to server at 192.168.0.1 wasn’t successful and irssi will try to
+connect it again in 3 minutes.
+
+To disconnect one of the servers, or to stop irssi from reconnecting, use
+
+/DISCONNECT network - disconnect server with tag "network"
+/DISCONNECT recon-1 - stop trying to reconnect to RECON-1 server
+/RMRECONNS - stop all server reconnections
+
+/RECONNECT recon-1 - immediately try reconnecting back to RECON-1
+/RECONNECT ALL - immediately try reconnecting back to all
+ servers in reconnection queue
+
+Now that you’re connected to all your servers, you’ll have to know how to
+specify which one of them you want to use. One way is to have an empty window,
+like status or msgs window. In it, you can specify which server to set active
+with
+
+/WINDOW SERVER tag - set server "tag" active
+Ctrl-X - set the next server in list active
+
+When the server is active, you can use it normally. When there’s multiple
+connected servers, irssi adds [servertag] prefix to all messages in non-channel
+/query messages so you’ll know where it came from.
+
+Several commands also accept -servertag option to specify which server it
+should use:
+
+/MSG -tag nick message
+/JOIN -tag #channel
+/QUERY -tag nick
+
+/MSG tab completion also automatically adds the -tag option when nick isn’t in
+active server.
+
+Window’s server can be made sticky. When sticky, it will never automatically
+change to anything else, and if server gets disconnected, the window won’t have
+any active server. When the server gets connected again, it is automatically
+set active in the window. To set the window’s server sticky use
+
+/WINDOW SERVER -sticky tag
+
+This is useful if you wish to have multiple status or msgs windows, one for
+each server. Here’s how to do them (repeat for each server)
+
+/WINDOW NEW HIDE
+/WINDOW NAME (status)
+/WINDOW LEVEL ALL -MSGS
+/WINDOW SERVER -sticky network
+
+/WINDOW NEW HIDE
+/WINDOW NAME (msgs)
+/WINDOW LEVEL MSGS
+/WINDOW SERVER -sticky network
+
+7. /LASTLOG and jumping around in scrollback
+
+/LASTLOG command can be used for searching texts in scrollback buffer. Simplest
+usages are
+
+/LASTLOG word - print all lines with "word" in them
+/LASTLOG word 10 - print last 10 occurances of "word"
+/LASTLOG -topics - print all topic changes
+
+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 lines. /
+LASTLOG has a lot of other options too, see /HELP lastlog for details.
+
+Once you’ve found the lines you were interested in, you might want to check the
+discussion around them. Irssi has /SCROLLBACK (or alias /SB) command for
+jumping around in scrollback buffer. Since /LASTLOG prints the timestamp when
+the message was originally printed, you can use /SB GOTO hh:mm to jump directly
+there. To get back to the bottom of scrollback, use /SB END command.
+
+8. Logging
+
+Irssi can automatically log important messages when you’re set away (/AWAY
+reason). When you set yourself unaway (/AWAY), the new messages in away log are
+printed to screen. You can configure it with:
+
+/SET awaylog_level MSGS HILIGHT - Specifies what messages to log
+/SET awaylog_file ~/.irssi/away.log - Specifies the file to use
+
+Easiest way to start logging with Irssi is to use autologging. With it Irssi
+logs all channels and private messages to specified directory. You can turn it
+on with
+
+/SET autolog ON
+
+By default it logs pretty much everything execept CTCPS or CRAP (/WHOIS
+requests, etc). You can specify the logging level yourself with
+
+/SET autolog_level ALL -CRAP -CLIENTCRAP -CTCPS (this is the default)
+
+By default irssi logs to ~/irclogs/<servertag>/<target>.log. You can change
+this with
+
+/SET autolog_path ~/irclogs/$tag/$0.log (this is the default)
+
+The path is automatically created if it doesn’t exist. $0 specifies the target
+(channel/nick). You can make irssi automatically rotate the logs by adding date
+/time formats to the file name. The formats are in “man strftime” format. For
+example
+
+/SET autolog_path ~/irclogs/%Y/$tag/$0.%m-%d.log
+
+For logging only some specific channels or nicks, see /HELP log
+
+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 server connections
+are then made through it, and if you’ve set up everything properly, you don’t
+need to do any /QUOTE SERVER commands manually.
+
+Here’s an example: You have your bouncer (lets say, BNC or BNC-like) listening
+in irc.bouncer.org port 5000. You want to use it to connect to servers
+irc.dal.net and irc.efnet.org. First you’d need to setup the bouncer:
+
+/SET use_proxy ON
+/SET proxy_address irc.bouncer.org
+/SET proxy_port 5000
+
+/SET proxy_password YOUR_BNC_PASSWORD_HERE
+/SET -clear proxy_string
+/SET proxy_string_after conn %s %d
+
+Then you’ll need to add the server connections. These are done exactly as if
+you’d want to connect directly to them. Nothing special about them:
+
+/SERVER ADD -auto -network dalnet irc.dal.net
+/SERVER ADD -auto -network efnet irc.efnet.org
+
+With the proxy /SETs however, irssi now connects to those servers through your
+BNC. All server connections are made through them so you can just forget that
+your bouncer even exists.
+
+If you don’t want to use the proxy for some reason, there’s -noproxy option
+which you can give to /SERVER and /SERVER ADD commands.
+
+Proxy specific settings:
+
+All proxies except irssi proxy and socks proxy have these settings in common:
+
+/SET use_proxy ON
+/SET proxy_address <Proxy host address>
+/SET proxy_port <Proxy port>
+
+HTTP proxy
+
+Use these settings with HTTP proxies:
+
+/SET -clear proxy_password
+/EVAL SET proxy_string CONNECT %s:%d HTTP/1.0\n\n
+
+BNC
+
+/SET proxy_password your_pass
+/SET -clear proxy_string
+/SET proxy_string_after conn %s %d
+
+dircproxy
+
+dircproxy separates the server connections by passwords. So, if you for example
+have network connection with password ircpass and OFTC connection with
+oftcpass, you would do something like this:
+
+/SET -clear proxy_password
+/SET -clear proxy_string
+
+/SERVER ADD -auto -network IRCnet fake.network 6667 ircpass
+/SERVER ADD -auto -network OFTC fake.oftc 6667 oftcpass
+
+The server name and port you give isn’t used anywhere, so you can put anything
+you want in there.
+
+psyBNC
+
+psyBNC has internal support for multiple servers. However, it could be a bit
+annoying to use, and some people just use different users for connecting to
+different servers. You can manage this in a bit same way as with dircproxy, by
+creating fake connections:
+
+/SET -clear proxy_password
+/SET -clear proxy_string
+
+/NETWORK ADD -user networkuser IRCnet
+/SERVER ADD -auto -network IRCnet fake.network 6667 ircpass
+/NETWORK ADD -user oftcuser OFTC
+/SERVER ADD -auto -network OFTC fake.oftc 6667 oftcpass
+
+So, you’ll specify the usernames with /NETWORK ADD command, and the user’s
+password with /SERVER ADD.
+
+Irssi proxy
+
+Irssi contains it’s own proxy which you can build giving \--with-proxy option
+to configure. You’ll still need to run irssi in a screen to use it though.
+
+Irssi proxy is a bit different than most proxies, normally proxies create a new
+connection to IRC server when a new client connects to it, but irssi proxy
+shares your existing IRC connection(s) to multiple clients. And even more
+clearly: You can use only one IRC server connection of the irssi proxy to IRC
+with as many clients as you want. Can anyone figure out even more easier ways
+to say this, so I wouldn’t need to try to explain this thing for minutes every
+time? :)
+
+Irssi proxy supports sharing multiple server connections in different ports,
+like you can share network in port 2777 and efnet in port 2778.
+
+Usage in proxy side:
+
+/LOAD proxy
+/SET irssiproxy_password <password>
+/SET irssiproxy_ports <network>=<port> ... (eg. IRCnet=2777 efnet=2778)
+
+NOTE: you MUST add all the servers you are using to server and network lists
+with /SERVER ADD and /NETWORK 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
+
+Usage in client side:
+
+Just connect to the irssi proxy like it is a normal server with password
+specified in /SET irssiproxy_password. For example:
+
+/SERVER ADD -network IRCnet my.irssi-proxy.org 2777 secret
+/SERVER ADD -network efnet my.irssi-proxy.org 2778 secret
+
+Irssi proxy works fine with other IRC clients as well.
+
+SOCKS
+
+Irssi can be compiled with socks support (--with-socks option to configure),
+which requires “dante” and routes all connections through the proxy specified
+in the system-wide /etc/socks.conf. This method is known to have issues in Mac
+OS X.
+
+Note that /SET proxy settings don’t have anything to do with socks.
+
+Using [4]proxychains-ng is recommended over recompiling irssi.
+
+Others
+
+IRC bouncers usually work like IRC servers, and want a password. You can give
+it with:
+
+/SET proxy_password <password>
+
+Irssi’s defaults for connect strings are
+
+/SET proxy_string CONNECT %s %d
+/SET proxy_string_after
+
+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.
+
+11. Irssi’s settings
+
+Here’s some settings you might want to change (the default value is shown):
+Also check the [5]Settings Documentation
+
+Queries
+
+/SET autocreate_own_query ON
+ Should new query window be created when you send message to someone (with /
+ MSG).
+/SET autocreate_query_level MSGS
+ New query window should be created when receiving messages with this level.
+ MSGS, DCCMSGS and NOTICES levels work currently. You can disable this with
+ /SET -clear autocreate_query_level.
+/SET autoclose_query 0
+ Query windows can be automatically closed after certain time of inactivity.
+ Queries with unread messages aren’t closed and active window is neither
+ never closed. The value is given in seconds.
+
+Windows
+
+/SET use_msgs_window OFF
+ Create messages window at startup. All private messages go to this window.
+ This only makes sense if you’ve disabled automatic query windows. Message
+ window can also be created manually with /WINDOW LEVEL MSGS, /WINDOW NAME
+ (msgs).
+/SET use_status_window ON
+ Create status window at startup. All messages that don’t really have better
+ place go here, like all /WHOIS replies etc. Status window can also be
+ created manually with /WINDOW LEVEL ALL -MSGS, /WINDOW NAME (status).
+/SET autocreate_windows ON
+ Should we create new windows for new window items or just place everything
+ in one window
+/SET autoclose_windows ON
+ Should window be automatically closed when the last item in them is removed
+ (ie. /PART, /UNQUERY).
+/SET reuse_unused_windows OFF
+ When finding where to place new window item (channel, query) Irssi first
+ tries to use already existing empty windows. If this is set ON, new window
+ will always be created for all window items. This setting is ignored if
+ autoclose_windows is set ON.
+/SET window_auto_change OFF
+ Should Irssi automatically change to automatically created windows -
+ usually queries when someone sends you a message. To prevent accidentally
+ sending text meant to some other channel/nick, Irssi clears the input
+ buffer when changing the window. The text is still in scrollback buffer,
+ you can get it back with pressing arrow up key.
+/SET print_active_channel OFF
+ When you keep more than one channel in same window, Irssi prints the
+ messages coming to active channel as <nick> text and other channels as
+ <nick:channel> text. If this setting is set ON, the messages to active
+ channels are also printed in the latter way.
+/SET window_history OFF
+ Should command history be kept separate for each window.
+
+User information
+
+/SET nick
+ Your nick name
+/SET alternate_nick
+ Your alternate nick.
+/SET user_name
+ Your username, if you have ident enabled this doesn’t affect anything
+/SET real_name
+ Your real name.
+
+Server information
+
+/SET skip_motd OFF
+ Should we hide server’s MOTD (Message Of The Day).
+/SET server_reconnect_time 300
+ Seconds to wait before connecting to same server again. Don’t set this too
+ low since it usually doesn’t help at all - if the host is down, the few
+ extra minutes of waiting won’t hurt much.
+/SET lag_max_before_disconnect 300
+ Maximum server lag in seconds before disconnecting and trying to reconnect.
+ This happens mostly only when network breaks between you and IRC server.
+
+Appearance
+
+/SET timestamps ON
+ Show timestamps before each message.
+/SET hide_text_style OFF
+ Hide all bolds, underlines, MIRC colors, etc.
+/SET show_nickmode ON
+ Show the nick’s mode before nick in channels, ie. ops have <@nick>, voices
+ <+nick> and others < nick>
+/SET show_nickmode_empty ON
+ If the nick doesn’t have a mode, use one space. ie. ON: < nick>, OFF:
+ <nick>
+/SET show_quit_once OFF
+ Show quit message only once in some of the channel windows the nick was in
+ instead of in all windows.
+/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 second).
+/SET indent 10
+ When lines are longer than screen width they have to be split to multiple
+ lines. This specifies how much space to put at the beginning of the line
+ before the text begins. This can be overridden in text formats with %|
+ format.
+/SET activity_hide_targets
+ If you don’t want to see window activity in some certain channels or
+ queries, list them here. For example #boringchannel =bot1 =bot2. If any
+ highlighted text or message for you appears in that window, this setting is
+ ignored and the activity is shown.
+
+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_char :
+ Completion character to use.
+
+For all the ircII people
+
+I don’t like automatic query windows, I don’t like status window, I do like
+msgs window where all messages go:
+
+/SET autocreate_own_query OFF
+/SET autocreate_query_level DCCMSGS
+/SET use_status_window OFF
+/SET use_msgs_window ON
+
+Disable automatic window closing when /PARTing channel or /UNQUERYing query:
+
+/SET autoclose_windows OFF
+/SET reuse_unused_windows ON
+
+Here’s the settings that make irssi work exactly like ircII in window
+management (send me a note if you can think of more):
+
+/SET autocreate_own_query OFF
+/SET autocreate_query_level NONE
+/SET use_status_window OFF
+/SET use_msgs_window OFF
+/SET reuse_unused_windows ON
+/SET windows_auto_renumber OFF
+
+/SET autostick_split_windows OFF
+/SET autoclose_windows OFF
+/SET print_active_channel ON
+
+12. Statusbar
+
+/STATUSBAR displays a list of the current statusbars, along with their position
+and visibility:
+
+ Name Type Placement Position Visible
+ window window bottom 0 always
+ window_inact window bottom 1 inactive
+ prompt root bottom 100 always
+ topic root top 1 always
+
+/STATUSBAR <name> prints the statusbar settings (type, placement, position,
+visibility) as well as its items. /STATUSBAR <name> ENABLE|DISABLE enables/
+disables the statusbar. /STATUSBAR <name> RESET resets the statusbar to its
+default settings, or if the statusbar was created by you, it will be removed.
+
+The statusbar type can be either window or root. If the type is window, then a
+statusbar will be created for each split window, otherwise it will be created
+only once. Placement can be top or bottom, which refers to the top or bottom of
+the screen. Position is a number, the higher the value the lower it will appear
+in-screen. Visible can be always, active or inactive. Active/inactive is useful
+only with split windows; one split window is active and the rest are inactive.
+To adjust these settings, the following commands are available:
+
+/STATUSBAR <name> TYPE window|root
+/STATUSBAR <name> PLACEMENT top|bottom
+/STATUSBAR <name> POSITION <num>
+/STATUSBAR <name> VISIBLE always|active|inactive
+
+Statusbar items can also be added or removed via command. Note that when
+loading new statusbar scripts that add items, you will need to specify where
+you want to show the item and how it is aligned. This can be accomplished using
+the below commands:
+
+/STATUSBAR <name> ADD [-before | -after <item>] [-priority #] [-alignment left|right] <item>
+/STATUSBAR <name> REMOVE <item>
+
+For statusbar scripts, the item name is usually equivalent to the script name.
+The documentation of the script ought to tell you if this is not the case. For
+example, to add mail.pl before the window activity item, use: /STATUSBAR window
+ADD -before act mail.
+
+
+References:
+
+[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html
+[2] https://www.iterm2.com/
+[3] https://quadpoint.org/articles/irssisplit/
+[4] https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng
+[5] https://irssi.org/documentation/settings/