Irssi is an IRC-client for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It works through a TUI (Terminal User Interface), and is highly customizable.
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How to get the nicklist in irssi to appear everytime?
I'm an avid user of tmux and irssi. I've been trying to use the nicklist.pl with irssi in tmux with only half success. I'm currently following the instructions here: Running nicklist with irssi using ...
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separate irssi services passwords from main configuration file
I want to automatically connect to some IRC networks that don't all support authentication SSL client certificates (like OFTC) or SASL (Freenode). At the same time I want to add my irssi config to ...
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Correct use of Tmux and Irssi via SSH
I'm pretty new with Tmux. I'm looking for a way to connect a Tmux session locally to a distant one, running on my server with irssi and other stuff.
If i start a regular session with
tmux
And ...
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How can I get notified by everything that happens in a specific channel in irssi?
(Be it hilight/highlight or a beep). I have a small channel that I need to know all the info of. I couldn't get trigger.pl to work, but maybe it should. I could do "/hilight -mask every_single_nick" ...
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How do I hide my username in irc?
I'm using irssi for my IRC client, and whenever I connect to a channel (e.g., #whatwg), it greets me with the line and I've tried the command line
0:22 -!- <nick> [~kalaracey@12.345.678.90] ...
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irssi grep.pl /list woes [duplicate]
Trying to search for a channel name on a server. Would like to see /list | grep 'foo' functionality from irssi.
After loading the grep.pl like
/script load grep.pl
Running the script as
/grep ...
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Is there a way to check what is causing irssi lag?
I'm getting a strange peak in lag on irssi while connected to ZNC on my Arch Linux server. What recommendations would you have for diagnosing the issue?
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Taking a screenshot of screen session over ssh
I often log via ssh to servers just to execute screen -r and look at my irssi irc session. Then I do Ctrl-AD and logout.
Is there a nice solution to wrap this into a script, so that I get to see the ...
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How can I see what I've typed in irssi?
I've been using http://irssi.org for a while and it works great when I'm typing fewer than 80 or so characters on a line.
When I type more than 80 characters, however, the words I typed scroll off ...
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Tmux notify when someone write me on IRSSI
I'm successfully using IRSSI inside Tmux to manage my chats. I've also tried the great tmux-powerline, which seems really full-featured.
Now, I'm wondering if there is a method to make Tmux notify me ...
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Changing the last log length in irssi?
Google failed me on this. I'd like to lengthen my lastlog size in irssi. I know that it's possible, since I've managed to do it years ago. I guess its one of those more esoteric commands?
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How can I run multiple instances of bitlbee on OS X?
I've been using bitlbee on OS X for a while now, but I've hit a roadblock when trying to use it the way I'd like to.
I have a .plist file created which launches bitlbee at boot, and thats working ...
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SASL authentication “fails” on Freenode / Tor, on irssi and weechat
I am following various tutorials about using Freenode through Tor. I have tried irssi + cap_sasl.pl, and also weechat, which has builtin SASL support.
The connection fails in following way on both ...
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Irssi in tmux - Messages overwritten
I'm trying to run Irssi in tmux, and I've been coming across something strange. Whenever a new message is received, it overwrites the last message. For example, say the following chat log is in my ...
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irssi keybinding: backward_word/forward_word
I'm currently experimenting with irssi as my irc client of choice and I'm getting along pretty well.
BUT there is one thing I still need to get done. Somehow it isn't possible for me to use the usual ...
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How to make special nohilight case in irssi
I would like to know how to set a special case to irssi hilight. I now have my nick in hilights and I would like to set it not to hilight when certain user writes it or it is written with certain ...
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How can I make hyperlinks in Irssi/Terminal.app be underlined?
I'm using Irssi via Terminal.app on a Mac. I realise you can open links in the default browser using CMD + Double-click but I'd like some visual indication in Irssi that links are, well, links (such ...
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Get irssi to beep on new message in tmux session
I have a tmux session with several windows. One of those windows is running irssi. I spend most of my time connected to one server and in one channel, so I'm not really changing windows inside ...
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irssi irc /list command [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I search in lists with irssi?
Folks,
The irssi irc client operates in a condensed window, without the option of scrolling up and down through output. So when i ...
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Can irssi ignore the 24h dsl-reconnect
A couple of weeks ago I had to switch my ISP from cable to DSL. Now I have this ridiculous disconnect and reconnect every 24h.
It's no big deal insofar as having a new IP address every day, but for ...
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How to resume XMPP groupchat window in Irssi (using bitlbee)?
I use Bitlbee to chat in XMPP-networks within my IRC-client Irssi. This works great so far, and recently I started using XMPP Multi User Chats as an alternative to IRC-channels.
I set up a channel ...
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Running Irssi in a Cygwin (bash) shell inside of the Console 2 wrapper [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to integrate Console2 over Cygwin (WinXP)?
I downloaded the source for irssi (a command line IRC client) and compiled it, following instructions, with Cygwin.
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Macports irssi & perl5 installation issues
Long time reader, first time poster. Big, appreciative thanks for everyone's collective questioning and answering here and at stackoverflow, it's helped me quite a lot over the time I've been learning ...
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How to bind ctrl-up/ctrl-down in irssi?
Trying to bind a command to ctrl-up, but /bind ^up doesn't work the way I expect. I'm guessing it's being parsed as ctrl-U+P.
Is there a way to do this?
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IRSSI logs variables?
I'm using IRSSI with XMPP and GTalk, and logs are formatted as
follows:
autolog_path = "~/.irssi/logs/$tag/$0.%y-%m-%d.log"
The problem is, it generates this log file when the user is connected
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How to make IRSSI running under screen in a remote system to beep on my local pc for new messages?
I have an irssi running forever under a "screen" in a remote linux server system. I have fedora 16 in my laptop and ssh into the server and resume my irssi screen when I come to work.
But I miss a ...
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How do i get automatic coloured nicknames in Macirssi?
How do I get automatic coloured nicknames in Macirssi? I've found a script for irssi that kind-of works, but only has a few colours. But for Macirssi I can't find anything.
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How to safely store passwords in Irssi?
I use several IRC networks and it's unsafe to store passwords in plain text. On the other hand, typing each password after connection is uncomfortable.
How can I store passwords in encrypted file and ...
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Looking for non-conflicting cross-platform keybinding consistency
I use Mac OS X and Arch Linux and occasionally log into FreeBSD and Debian servers by ssh. My favoured tools are zsh, ssh, tmux, git, vim and irssi. I use iTerm2 on Mac OS X and unicode-rxvt on Arch ...
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How to pass bash variables (passwords) to IRSSI config file?
I'm using IRSSI and I wonder how can I pass my IRC channel's passwords to the IRSSI config file (~/.irssi/config) without writing them directly in the file.
In Mutt I've an awk command that queries a ...
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Reattaching screen (having irssi running) forces window resize
Whenever I reattach to my detached screen (containing Irssi), my Putty screen is resized to something it has been at startup. If I change the window size after this, detach the screen and resize it ...
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irssi tries to join #python before sending the identify message
I am starting off with irssi here and have a small setup trying to connect to a few channels on freenode. I have the following in my chatnets directive in my .irssi/config
Freenode = {
type = ...
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Get the names of users to display in irssi window?
By default I can't see the names of the people in the chat unless I do /names. How can I always have the names displayed, on the right of the screen?
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Irssi for Windows adding beep when reply is made?
There have been several tutorials on how to do this, but none of them are for Windows...
I got the settings all correct, and /beep works, but there is no sound, and I can't find any way to get it to ...
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UTF-8 Not Working in PuTTY when using SSH Remote command
So. I am using PuTTY to connect to a remote server that has an irssi client running for me constantly through tmux.
Connecting to the server, and typing "tmux attach" works fine and everything works ...
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tmux: Link panes?
Is it possible to do this? I've got a window 'dev' with several panes in it. One of those windows is an irssi process. Is it possible to make that same irssi process appear in window 'play' as another ...
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irssi “Terminal doesn't support cursor movement”
I'm trying to run irssi under cygwin and it gives me this error:
$ irssi
Terminal doesn't support cursor movement
Can't initialize screen handling, quitting.
You can still use the dummy mode with -d ...
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IRSSI /list Considered Harmful
When I type /list in IRSSI, it says:
Irssi: Doing this is not a good idea. Add -YES option to command if you really mean it
Why is it not a good idea?
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How do I search in lists with irssi?
I would like to be able to search like this:
/window list | grep ruby
I have installed grep.pl to do so, but it still fails.
The syntax says to do
/GREP [-i] [-w] [-v] [-F] <perl-regexp> ...
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$HOME is forgotten only when a remote SSHed “screen” session is detached
Whenever I detach my remote "screen" session and ctrl a-c a new window, it opens the new window with "/" as the PWD. Another extremely annoying problem is that whenever the "screen" session is ...
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How do I set a default nick for new irssi connections?
When trying to connect to an irc server in irssi, I get the following error:
root Erroneous Nickname: Reserved for
services
I don't know how to change the nickname before the connection is ...
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irssi cannot connect to IRC servers (cygwin)
I would like to be a more active user of IRSSI as I am not a big fan of either Pidgin, XChat or mIRC, having used all of them for over a year.
Unfortunately Irssi seems to be unable to connect to ...
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Running nicklist with irssi using screen inside tmux?
I try to run the nicklist addon with irssi using screen inside tmux but strangely :) it doesn't work and I get the input on top of the screen. Is it possible to run nicklist when you are on tmux?
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View a nick's idle time in /whois info on irssi
On most IRC clients, doing /whois on a nick will display their idle time. However, irssi does not show this. Is there any way to make it show the idle time?
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How do IRC clients, shells and bouncers work?
let's say I take free shell and start irssi with the nick: nick_test and of course nick stays online 24/7, right?
But if I connect with my IRC client, like mIRC or xchat and set my nick to nick_test ...
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Tor + Irssi (Ubuntu 10.10)
I am trying to get Tor working with Irssi.
The directions at the bottom of this page Freenode Install Link
say to
:~/.irssi$ tor MapAddress 10.40.40.40 p4fsi4ockecnea7l.onion
Feb 12 04:26:51.101 ...
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IRSSI screen_away.py script refuses to work
I am using the screen_away.py script in IRSSI and it just refuses to work. I have tried restarting, reloading and I'm stuck...
any help?!
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irssi grep some pattern on history
I'm new to irssi and I couldn't figure out one feature (or task).
I know I can use Page+Up/Down to scroll back and forth on the chat history. I also know I can use /lastlog to dump the whole chat ...
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Log highlighted lines to window in irssi
I usually keep an irssi session running on my server at all times.
Often times it also takes me quite a while between remembering that I in fact have it running.
Therefore I'd like to know if ...
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