Configuring the irssi IRC client. (No Such Weblog)

Configuring the irssi IRC client.

I haven't been using IRC "seriously" for quite some time; back then, ircII was the dominant client.

I now had a look at irssi, a perl-extensible client. The features and usability are really nice, but it takes some time to actually customize the program -- the documentation is not very good.

Some early hints:

The Fedora Core 2 packaged version of irssi doesn't load the perl module by default, i.e., you can't use any scripts. This can easily be solved by putting the line
/load perl
in the ~/.irssi/startup file.

I wanted log files sorted by IRC server. I haven't found any proper documentation of this feature, but putting the line
autolog_path = "~/irclogs/$tag/%y-%m-%d.log";
into the fe-common/core section of ~/.irssi/config helps.

I wanted to imitate gaim's "make noise when nick mentioned in channel" feature. The solution is essentially here, under the headline mIRC-like flashing with putty. my_beep.pl helped add the appropriate sound.

Other scripts I find helpful: trackbar.pl; hack-whois-in-current-window.pl; recode.pl; shortenurl.pl.

I also put together a theme that looks similar to my mutt and jed configurations. (This one assumes a black-on-white color terminal.)

Posted by Thomas Roessler on September 23, 2004 5:02 PM | Permalink

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Comments (2)

Anonymous:

You might want to make that "~/irclogs/$tag/%y-%m-%d.$$pid()$.log", just to keep from over-writing you logs if you get cut off and reconnect the same day.

Posted by Anonymous | September 29, 2004 10:51 AM

Posted on September 29, 2004 10:51

Thomas Roessler:

There is no need for that change -- irssi appends to existing log files.

Posted by Thomas Roessler | September 29, 2004 11:26 AM

Posted on September 29, 2004 11:26

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