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FAQ
Q: Why doesn't irssi display colors even when ircii etc. displays them?
A: They force ANSI colors even if terminal doesn't support them. By
default, irssi uses colors only if terminfo/termcap so says. The
correct way to fix this would be to change your TERM environment to a
value where colors work, like xterm-color or color_xterm. If this
doesn't help, then use the evil way of /SET term_force_colors ON.
Q: How do I easily write text to channel that starts with '/' character?
A: / /text
Q: Why doesn't irssi update my realname (or whatever) after I change it with
/SET realname and reconnect with /RECONNECT or /SERVER?
A: Irssi is trying to be too smart. This will be fixed in future, but
for now you should use /DISCONNECT and /CONNECT.
Q: I connected to some server which isn't responding but now irssi tries to
connect back to it all the time! How can I stop it?
A: Two ways. The "good way" to do it is with /DISCONNECT. Check the
server tags first with /SERVER without giving it any parameters,
reconnections are those that have tag starting with "recon" text. So
most probably you're going to do /DISCONNECT recon-1. The other way is
to remove all the reconnections with /RMRECONNS, easier but may remove
some connections you actually wanted to reconnect (if you used
multiple servers..).
Q: How do I add seconds to timestamp?
A: /FORMAT timestamp {timestamp %%H:%%M:%%S} - and remember to add the
trailing space :)
Q: Why does irssi say "Irssi: Channel not fully synchronized yet, try again
after a while" when I try to use /BAN etc?
A: Possibly a bug in irssi, or ircd you're using does something that
irssi didn't really notice. The new code should make this happen far
less often than before, but one known reason for this is when irssi
doesn't notice that you were unable to join some channel. Currently
however I don't know of any such events irssi doesn't know about.
Anyway, if this does happen, do /RAWLOG SAVE ~/rawlog soon after
joining to channel, and either try to figure out yourself why irssi
didn't get reply to WHO request, or send the whole log to tss@iki.fi.
Note that the rawlog is by default only 200 lines and it may not be
enough to show all needed information, so you might want to do /SET
rawlog_lines 1000 or so.
MODE +b still works fine though.
Q: Where's the GUI version?
A: Read http://irssi.org/?page=about
Q: How do I autorejoin channels after being kicked?
A: That's evil and you shouldn't do it. If you get kicked, you should
stay out, at least until the channel forgot you existed :) Most
channels I've joined just ban you if you autorejoin after kick. If
you're joined to channels who kick people for fun, try changing
channels or something.
Anyway, if you REALLY want to do that, and you understand that you're
doing evilness, you can use the autorejoin.pl script that comes with
irssi. You'll still need to specify the channels you wish to rejoin
with /SET autorejoin_channels #chan1 #chan2 ...
Q: How do I announce that I'm away/back in all channels I've joined? Or how
do I change my nick when setting myself away/back?
A: That's even worse than autorejoin. Who could possibly care every
time you come and go? Many channels will kick you for using this, and
I for example have added several ignores so I'd never need to see
these messages. Learn to use /AWAY command properly and tell it's
existence to people who don't know about it. /WII yournick shows your
away reason much better for people who actually want to know if you're
there or not.
You can script these behaviours if you really wish to of course. But
currently there's no public scripts for either of these, and the only
way I'm going to add such to irssi.org is if the script contains a
setting to specify which specific channels the announcement is sent.
Q: How to make UTF-8 support work with irssi?
A: xterm -u8, screen -U, /SET term_type utf-8
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