LornaJane

Getting Started with irssi

Saturday, August 23. 2008

Irssi is a fabulous IRC client, which runs on the command line. I'm sure I don't use half the features it offers but its very stable, unintrusive ( you can run it in a background terminal, or even leave it running in a detached screen process ), and frankly excellent. Because I don't have to set up irssi very often, I always have to look up how to do it - here's the quick start guide (and remember you can use any of the commands with a "help" argument to get instructions)

First of all, we create a network
/network add -nick <nickname> -user <username> <network>

/network add -nick fred -user fred freenode

Next up, we add a server to the network - this step is so we can add a number of alternative servers for the same network, I never do though.
/server add -noauto -network <network> <server>

/server add -noauto -network freenode irc.freenode.net

You can also use -auto rather than -noauto above to reconnect to this network every time you use irssi.

Finally, we connect.
/connect <network>

/connect freenode

Posted by LornaJane in tech at 19:47 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)
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Any reason you -noauto the server connection? I hate having to startup and remember to type /connect freenode personally.

You should probably show how to add channels as well, /channel add [-auto] #name

#1 Caius Durling (Homepage) on 2008-08-28 17:31 (Reply)

Caius: I have some connections on -auto and some on -noauto, depending how often I use them. I didn’t show the channel think because I always manually join channels, I get fed up of people who auto join but never say anything or join in. And personally I often dip into different channels depending what I’m doing.

#2 LornaJane (Homepage) on 2008-08-31 08:10 (Reply)

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