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+title: About Irssi
+permalink: /about/
+categories: [ _1 ]
+twocolumn: true
+---
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC
+and ICB protocols via plugins.
+
+<div markdown="1">
+
+### Greatest features
+You might be wondering what makes Irssi such an easy and comfortable client
+to use; Joost Vunderink wrote a summary of the most beneficial Irssi features.
+
+</div>
+<div markdown="1">
+
+### Autologging
+Irssi can automatically log any channels, queries or special windows that
+you want. The logfiles will be separated per IRC network by default, and even
+log rotation is supported. Log file formats, themes and destination directories
+can be easily configured with the Irssi log settings.
+
+</div>
+<div markdown="1">
+
+### Formats and themes
+Theming is a popular item in todays desktop enviroments, it's an easy yet
+powerful way to customize your Irssi client's look and feel. Irssi's
+formatting is modular which means you can just change the appearance of the
+objects and all items contaning that object will change into that format.
+
+</div>
+<div markdown="1">
+
+### Configurable keybindings
+This feature is a piece of art; it allows you to modify the default
+keybindings and create your own so you can customize your client. If these
+keybindings are tuned, you can switch through the windows in no time, execute
+commands and even complete objects with these bindings.
+
+</div>
+<div markdown="1">
+
+### Paste detection
+If you have ever pasted a bunchload of text into a wrong channel, you know
+how hard the consequences can be. Irssi tries to detect when you are pasting
+large amounts of text, by looking at the speed that characters are entered;
+if such pasting is detected [TAB]-characters are sent as-is instead of being
+tab-completed and eventually ending up in a wrong destination window. When
+Irssi detects such a pasting, you will get the option to either abort the
+paste or execute the paste, this way you have total control of the pasting.
+
+</div>
+<div markdown="1">
+
+### Perl scripting
+Perl is one of the most used programming languages around the globe and
+integrating Perl into applications means flexible and powerful scripting
+capabilities. The entire behavior and appearence of Irssi can be modified
+within these Perl scripts. Irssi provides a script archive with many
+contributed Irssi scripts which provide both useful extra features and the
+required assistance to make your own scripts.
+
+</div>
+<div markdown="1">
+
+### Irssi-proxy
+This is much more than just a bouncer, Irssi-proxy is a plugin which allows
+to bind a port to each IRC server you are connected to. This means that
+instead of having to remember to identify with a password, you can just
+connect to the Irssi-proxy with a server password. The copy of Irssi running
+the proxy works just as a normal client which you can use, but you can also
+connect one or more clients to it to share the connections. Using Irssi as a
+proxy has the major advantage of Irssi's power as an IRC client. You never
+have to worry about losing your connection to IRC. Even if you don't want to
+use Irssi as a client, I can strongly recommend it as a proxy because you can
+just connect to it with any IRC client by just connecting to the specified
+port instead of SSH-ing to the machine that your Irssi is running on.
+
+</div>
+<div markdown="1">
+
+### Upgrades
+Upgrading your Irssi client to the latest version can be easily done
+without losing the connections to the IRC servers and without restarting
+Irssi. You can use the UPGRADE command to load the new Irssi binary and
+restoring your connections.
+
+</div>