irssi

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 01:25:17 -0800
eric dan <vladuz976 at gmail.com> wrote:

> does anybody know where i can find a beginner's guide to irssi?
> the irssi website takes certain knowledge for granted and does not explain.
> i want to find out how i can autojoin freenode and identify and join
> channels on startup without becoming an irssi guru.
> can anybody help with this?
> 
> thanks

Hi ,

In your home directory you will find the directory  .irssi  (the dot makes it a "hidden" directory). In this directory is the file "config". You can open thus:

gedit ~/.irssi/config

Now look for a section that looks like

{
    address = "irc.freenode.net";
    chatnet = "freenode";
    port = "6667";
    autoconnect = "yes";
    password = "xxxx";
  }

Clearly you need  autoconnect = "yes";    as above, and your password subsituted for "xxxx"  (which I've obscured for obvious reasons ;) )

Scroll down and look for the section that looks like this:

-- channels = (
  { name = "#irssi"; chatnet = "ircnet"; autojoin = "No"; },
  { name = "#irssi"; chatnet = "freenode"; autojoin = "No"; },
  { name = "#ubuntu"; chatnet = "freenode"; autojoin = "Yes"; },
  { name = "silc"; chatnet = "silc"; autojoin = "No"; }
);

Notice the line that has chatnet = "freenode"; autojoin = "Yes";   - in this case set to join #ubuntu. As you see, other lines can be set up to join , say, freenode #irssi, or #kubuntu, or whatever you wish...

Under this you'll also see "aliases" , where you can  set up your own "shortcut" commands if you wish, and so on.

Further down is a section like this:

 core = {
    real_name = "Peter Garrett";
    user_name = "prospero";
    nick = "thoreauputic";
    hostname = "\"\"";
  };
 
Which you use to set your user_name, and your default nickname

You will also want to set your alternativee nickname in this section:

"irc/core" = { alternate_nick = "thoreauputic_"; };

This should get you started,  I hope.
You might already have read

http://www.irssi.org/?page=beginner

but it has some useful pointers and links. Many things in irssi can be set using the /set command from within irssi itself.

http://www.irssi.org/index.php?page=docs&doc=faq

Might help too.

It also makes your life easier if you link your alternative/ alternate nick to your default nick.
Try "/msg nickserv help"   for a list of posssibilities (once you are connected to freenode) - each option has its own help entries as well.

Peter

Linux User #343161