Difference between revisions of "Irssi Tutorial"

Revision as of 01:42, 5 May 2012

Getting Irssi

• Begin by downloading Irssi from the Irssi download page.
  • Mac users can download Irssi here and Windows users here

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install irssi

Gentoo

emerge irssi

Slackware

slackware-current

Frugalware

pacman -S irssi

Solaris

pkg-get install irssi

Arch Linux

pacman -S irssi

Connecting to the IRC

irssi
/connect -ssl irc.blackhatacademy.org
/join #school

Sample config file

servers = (
  {
    address = "irc.blackhatacademy.org";
    chatnet = "bha";
    port = "6697";
    autoconnect = "yes";
    use_ssl = "yes";
    ssl_verify = "no";
  }
}

chatnets = {
  bha = {
    type = "IRC";
    nick = "Savitri";
    user = "arya";
    realname = "Llama Llama Duck";
    autosendcmd = "SBCONNECT";
  };
}

channels = {
  { name = "#school"; chatnet = "bha"; autojoin = "Yes"; },
  { name = "#wiki"; chatnet = "bha"; autojoin = "Yes"; }
}

aliases = {
  J = "join";
  WJOIN = "join -window";
  WQUERY = "query -window";
  LEAVE = "part";
  BYE = "quit";
  EXIT = "quit";
  SIGNOFF = "quit";
  DESCRIBE = "action";
  DATE = "time";
  HOST = "userhost";
  LAST = "lastlog";
  SAY = "msg *";
  WI = "whois";
  WII = "whois $0 $0";
  WW = "whowas";
  W = "who";
  N = "names";
  M = "msg";
  T = "topic";
  C = "clear";
  CL = "clear";
  K = "kick";
  KB = "kickban";
  KN = "knockout";
  BANS = "ban";
  B = "ban";
  MUB = "unban *";
  UB = "unban";
  IG = "ignore";
  UNIG = "unignore";
  SB = "scrollback";
  UMODE = "mode $N";
  WC = "window close";
  WN = "window new hide";
  SV = "say Irssi $J ($V) - http://irssi.org/";
  GOTO = "sb goto";
  CHAT = "dcc chat";
  RUN = "SCRIPT LOAD";
  SBAR = "STATUSBAR";
  INVITELIST = "mode $C +I";
  SBCONNECT = "MSG starburst USER IDENTIFY Savitri ohnoesmypassw0rdz";
}

References

• Irssi download page
• Useful Irssi scripts