Irssi has many ways to navigate between windows, and within a window.<\/p>\n
For this article, I am assuming that you do not<\/em> use split windows. Also, whenever I mention the alt<\/strong> key, I mean alt<\/strong>, or meta<\/strong>, or option<\/strong>, or whatever works for you. There is a difference between them, but that’s beyond the scope of this post.<\/p>\n If the alt<\/strong>\u00a0key does not work properly for you, you have two options:<\/p>\n Let’s start by what you can do while typing. These keystrokes change only what happens on the input line (the line where you type stuff).<\/p>\n There are keystrokes and commands to navigate within a single window. The total amount of text inside a single window is called the buffer<\/em>.<\/p>\n These are the keys:<\/p>\n And these are the commands:<\/p>\n You can use \/sb<\/strong> instead of \/scrollback<\/strong> to save time typing.<\/p>\n The most important thing to know about navigating between windows is that alt + a<\/strong> sends you to the window with the most recent, most important activity. Pressing it consecutively will first lead you through all windows that are pink in your activity bar, then all windows that are white, and then the rest. This is not entirely correct, but if you are able to correct me on this, you don’t need this article in the first place \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Then there are alt<\/strong> + 1<\/strong>, alt<\/strong> + 2<\/strong> , and so on. These take you directly to the window with that number. By default, the top 2 lines of your (qwerty) keyboard are bound that way, all the way up to alt<\/strong> + o<\/strong>, which takes you to window 19.<\/p>\n Going to the next or previous window can be done by pressing ctrl<\/strong> + p<\/strong> or ctrl<\/strong> + n<\/strong>, or via alt<\/strong> + arrow left<\/strong> or alt<\/strong> + arrow right<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Some commands to make your life easier:<\/p>\n Changing navigation<\/span><\/p>\n Personally, I like my home<\/strong> and end<\/strong> keys not to go to the beginning and end of the text line, but to the beginning and end of the buffer. I have accomplished this by doing the following:<\/p>\n Also, having alt<\/strong> + 1<\/strong> through alt<\/strong> + 0<\/strong> and alt<\/strong> + q<\/strong> through alt<\/strong> + p<\/strong> is great if you have “only” 20 windows, but if you have more, what then? I’ve added windows 21 to 40, like this:<\/p>\n And so on. I had to re-bind alt + a<\/strong> of course, alt<\/strong> + [<\/strong>, which is to the right of the p<\/strong> on my keyboard:<\/p>\n If you want to scroll up or down a different amount that half a page when pressing page-<\/strong>up<\/strong> or page-down<\/strong>, change the setting\u00a0scroll_page_count<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The command \/window goto<\/strong> is very useful. However, it’s way too much typing. So, since I never use \/w<\/strong> for \/who<\/strong>, I’ve changed \/w<\/strong> to \/window goto<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Finally, I got rather annoyed by how ctrl<\/strong> + z<\/strong> puts irssi in the background. I never ever want to do that. So, I wanted to bind ctrl<\/strong> + z<\/strong> to a useful command. There is a command that takes you to the window you were in before this one, so I bound that:<\/p>\n This way, by pressing ctrl<\/strong> + z<\/strong>, I can keep toggling between two interesting windows.<\/p>\n I hope this helps you to navigate around irssi easier and faster!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 \n
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