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 do I “identify with services” on IRC?
I am using irrsi as my irc cilent on ubuntu
I have entered "/join #android-dev" in my command window.
But I am getting this error message:
22:05 -!- #android-dev Cannot join channel (+r) - you need ...
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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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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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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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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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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 can I ignore all JOINS, PARTS from all but a few channels?
On the freenode network I want to ignore ALL joins, parts EXCEPT in channels #foo and #bar.
What would be the syntax for this?
I tried:
/ignore -except #foo, #bar JOINS PARTS QUITS
I also tried ...
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To make Irssi System-beep
How can you make Irssi system-beep without PC speakers?
I know this post.
I have now also my PC speakers connected to my computer in the case that the sound starts to work with them.
However, this ...
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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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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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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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Irssi settings and Bash's Environment variables
How can I define settings, such as ircname, nick and such things, in .bashrc for Irssi?
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irssi in screen reconnecting to servers when ssh connection lost
I have irssi running in screen, and I connect to it via ssh (with PuTTY). When I unexpectedly lose my ssh connection, if irssi was the active screen window, upon reconnecting/reattaching, it often ...
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Irssi: /LASTLOG match -file /tmp/irssi_discussion
I have tried to save the match "/lastlog match" to a file /tmp/irssi_discussion. I can get it work like "/lastlog /tmp/irssi_discussion" that saves the whole buffer, noted in the documentation. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Hyperlinks in irssi
I'm using a tiling window manager (awesome), so I find it convenient to use terminal apps as much as possible. So, irssi is my irc client. The only problem here is that if someone references a website ...
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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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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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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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Irssi prevent logging joins/quits
I use Irssi's autolog feature, but I'm tired of filling up my logs on relatively quiet channels with joins and quits. I've read the documentation for autologging, and I suspect that there is already a ...
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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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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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Display time in irssi in 12-hour format
In the irssi IRC client, the time and timestamps are displayed by default in 24-hour format. Is there any way to get it to default to 12-hour format?
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How do I read logfiles with irssi?
I know that I can use lastlog to read logs that are already in memory, but if I want to read older stuff that won't work. And on windows the log files are locked and I can't read them unless I close ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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$HOME is forgotten only when a remote SSHed “screen” session is detached
Whenever I detach my remote "screen" session and ctrl a-c a new window, it opens the new window with "/" as the PWD. Another extremely annoying problem is that whenever the "screen" session is ...
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Change the foreground color of statusbars in irssi?
I've changed the terminal colors and now irssi statusbars have white text on light blue background. I would like to change the foreground color of the irssi statusbars to black but can't figure out ...
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How do IRC clients, shells and bouncers work?
let's say I take free shell and start irssi with the nick: nick_test and of course nick stays online 24/7, right?
But if I connect with my IRC client, like mIRC or xchat and set my nick to nick_test ...
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Irssi: How can I close the DCC Server?
The server is on the port 0 with the command:
/dcc server
I have no idea of its use, so I would like to close it. How can I close the DCC server?
Clarification:
If you look at the help "/help ...
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Macports irssi & perl5 installation issues
Long time reader, first time poster. Big, appreciative thanks for everyone's collective questioning and answering here and at stackoverflow, it's helped me quite a lot over the time I've been learning ...
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How do I set a default nick for new irssi connections?
When trying to connect to an irc server in irssi, I get the following error:
root Erroneous Nickname: Reserved for
services
I don't know how to change the nickname before the connection is ...
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Tor + Irssi (Ubuntu 10.10)
I am trying to get Tor working with Irssi.
The directions at the bottom of this page Freenode Install Link
say to
:~/.irssi$ tor MapAddress 10.40.40.40 p4fsi4ockecnea7l.onion
Feb 12 04:26:51.101 ...
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irssi 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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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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Using irssi, is there a way to copy URLs so I can open them in elinks?
I know there is another question about this (hopefully the one I saw is the only one) but mine is a little different.
Using irssi from the command line (without X), is there a way to copy and paste ...
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Catch highlights and URLs in new windows
In irssi, I want all highlights and all URLs to be catched into two separate windows.
I.e., when another user highlights me, that message will also appear in a new/other window together with a ...
