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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.

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Q: How do I easily write text to channel that starts with '/' character?

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A: / /text

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Q: Why doesn't irssi update my realname (or whatever) after I change it +with /SET realname and reconnect with /RECONNECT +or /SERVER?

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A: Irssi is trying to be too smart. This will be fixed in future, but for +now you should use /DISCONNECT and /CONNECT.

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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.

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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.

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Q: Where's the GUI version?

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A: Read +http://irssi.org/?page=about

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Q: How do I autorejoin channels after being kicked?

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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.

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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?

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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.

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