Tag Archives: irssi

Chatting at work for fun and profit

Posted on 2013-11-27 by Joost

As I am writing this, I am employed as a software engineer at XS4ALL, the oldest consumer internet provider in the Netherlands. One of the things that makes people at XS4ALL so effective, is the use of a company IRC … Continue reading →

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Irssi tricks: join channels automatically

Posted on 2012-07-01 by Joost

Today, we shall learn how to make irssi connect to servers, join channels and open queries on startup. Let’s assume that we want irssi to automatically connect to the following networks, join these channels and open these queries: EFnet use … Continue reading →

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Irssi tricks: navigating around

Posted on 2011-12-02 by Joost

Irssi has many ways to navigate between windows, and within a window. For this article, I am assuming that you do not use split windows. Also, whenever I mention the alt key, I mean alt, or meta, or option, or … Continue reading →

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Irssi tricks: ignores and hilights

Posted on 2010-09-02 by Joost

I like the IRC client irssi a lot. I’ve been using it for many years now, and have learned many tricks about it. In these irssi blog entries, I’ll be sharing some tricks with you. The /ignore command is quite … Continue reading →

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