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diff --git a/docs/startup-HOWTO.txt b/docs/startup-HOWTO.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..90d278d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/startup-HOWTO.txt @@ -0,0 +1,799 @@ +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/ |