Irssi automatically
The network command
The first step is to set up the network. This network will be used later to tell Irssi where the channels belong. Lets add LiquidBabble. We really need to be in #slackstuff there ![]()
(In the following example, those attributes inside [these brackets] are optional though you probably want to use most of them)
Start Irssi and type:
/network add [-nick
In the above command, we added liquidbabble as a network, accessible in the commands to come by using the name “liquidbabble”. These are the standard flags that I give to a network when I add a new one to Irssi. They should be self explanatory. touching a little deeper on the “-autosendcmd” attribute, the ^ character is necessary for you to properly identify with nickserv and the quotes are required for Irssi to recognize the beginning and end of the command Also, multiple commands can be sent to the network by separating them with a semi-colon “;”. For example, if you are an Oper on a network, yours could look like this:
(identify with nickserv) (wait a few seconds) (send the oper command)
-autosendcmd "/^msg nickserv identify password;wait 2000;/oper
The server command
Now Irssi has to know what server to connect to for the newly added network. Now we type:
/server add -auto -network liquidbabble irc.liquidbabble.com
With that command, we told Irssi to add the round-robin address of “irc.liquidbabble.com” to the network “liquidbabble” and to auto connect to it. Since we sent nickserv the identify command the network add; we will be identified when we connect to the server. If you choose, you can put an individual server name in this command instead of the round-robin address of irc.liquidbabble.com. Again, there are other options to the server command that can be used like making an ssl connection with the -ssl attribute. These are, as stated before, available inside Irssi by typing “/help
Channels
I want my favorite channels on liquidbabble to be auto joined and I’m sure you do too. So, type:
/channel add -auto #slackstuff liquidbabble
That is the shortest one that we have done so far.
In this command, we added #slackstuff the the channel list on the network “liquidbabble” and told Irssi to auto join it. That was easy enough. You can set up multiple networks and multiple channels. You can have some networks as auto join and some that you connect to with the “/connect” command by just issuing “/connect
Hope your liking Irssi and I look forward to having you back for part 3. Until then; laterz
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Hi,
This was a very good read. I know I don’t use Irssi that much, but the more posts I read about it here, the more motivation I get to navigate to it.
lol – Everyone knows Xchat is my sidekick, so I’ll probably still end using them both.