IrssI

Pointers

My favorite IRC client.

• http://irssi.org/ - main site
• http://irssi.org/?page=docs - documentation
• http://www.irssi.de/ - great tips and links
• http://juerd.nl/site.plp/irssiscripttut - scripting tutorial
• UnixGeekTools - other great tools for unix geeks

Scripts

• http://scripts.irssi.de/ - lots of scripts
• http://ratings.irssi.de/ - script ratings
• scriptassist - like the ports tree (:
• trackbar - keeps track of what you last saw
• usercount - number of users on channels
• mail - new mail indicator
• niq - non-unique nick tab completion
• chanact - configurable activity statusbar

Useful Commands

• connecting to multiple servers
  • connect to server1, dropping any other current connections
    • /connect server1
  • connect to server2 without disconnecting from server1
    • /connect +server2
  • stop reconnection attempts
    • /rmreconns
• ignoring
  • /ignore -pattern "UDP port denial" syslog-adaptor-testing
• bell on every message
  • /set beep_msg_level MSGS HILIGHT
  • /set bell_beeps ON
• command exist to run arbitrary commands instead of beeping
• the full beep action
  • /set beep_when_window_active ON
  • /set beep_when_away ON
  • /set beep_msg_level MSGS NOTICES DCC DCCMSGS HILIGHT
  • /set bell_beeps ON
• hilighting stuff
  • /hilight nick
  • /hilight -color %g -mask some_nick!*@*
  • /dehilight nick
• scrollback
  • /scrollback goto [time|line].
  • /sb home|end
• upgrading to new version of irc without dropping connection
  • /upgrade

My Plugins

growl-notify

This is the script that finally allowed me to do away with all gui clients and rely soley on irssi in screen. The irssi script that comes with growl was released after I already wrote this one. I've continued to tweak mine over time.

• growl-notify.pl

Example config file ~/.irssi/growl.yaml:

---
buddyicons: /Users/VVu/Wiki/images/friends/buddy-icons
hilight.enable: 1
hilight.sticky: 1
private.enable: 2
private.sticky: 1
public.channels:
  '#somechannel: sticky
  '#anotherchannel: sticky
  '#busychannel: nosticky
public.enable: 1

nickcolor

• wu-nickcolor.pl
  • my hacked version of nickcolor.pl
  • specify default color, and colors for specific nicks
  • color defined for somenick also used for somenick{foo}
  • i use comments in my saved_colors file, so I never use /color save

#
# example ~/.irssi/saved_colors
#
default:7
# friends
nick:6
somenick:6
# coworkers
dudeA:11
otherdude:11
thirddude:11
# mgmt
headdude:5

• nickcolor.pl - colorize nicks
  • /color list - show manually assigned colors
  • /color preview - display color choices

Proxy

    /load proxy

    /set irssiproxy_password secret
    /set irssiproxy_ports work=2031 freenode=2032

    # connect to proxy in other session
    /server localhost port password