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Irssi Cheat Sheet

Cheat Irssi

Short cheatsheet handy while learning to use Irssi. Adapted from IRC-client.md by Nishant Modak.

  1. To switch between open channels / windows

    Alt + N where N is the number corresponding to the open window

  2. To ignore joins / quits / nicks changes on a specific channel.

    /ignore -channels #chan1,#chan2,#chan3 * JOINS PARTS QUITS NICKS

  3. Auto Connect to a Server on startup

    /SERVER ADD -auto -network IRCnet irc.freenode.net 6667

  4. Auto Join to Specificed channels

    /CHANNEL ADD -auto #doothings IRCnet

  5. To Keep logging all these conversations

    /SET AUTOLOG ON

  6. To set Nicks and Real Name etc.

    /SET -> This should show all existing configured parameters.

    To change these just say

    /SET param-name value like /SET nick nism-pi

  7. To auto-identify on connecting with NickServ

    /network add -autosendcmd "/msg nickserv identify <password> ;wait 2000" IRCnet

  8. /SAVE to save the entire configuration.

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