Saturday, November 11
Fun with irssi
Since then, I've been slowly adding new scripts and adding other tweaks. Irssi is wonderfully configurable.
One of my annoyances early on, was my tendency to "lose" windows - either channel windows, but more often private message windows. My friend Dennis ([dmp]) got tired of my complaining and constantly asking him to PM me so I could find the right window and he wrote me a nice little script, wnn.pl. There is an existing script on the irssi site called go.pl, but I found that it was more complex and frankly didn't have some of the basic functionality I wanted. With wnn.pl, I can simply type "/wnn err" and it will take me to the first window (whether channel or pm) that has "err" in the name. If I type it again, it takes me to the next one. The script is clean and easy to use (and Dennis has added functionality as we realized some things using it). Thanks, Dennis!
And yay for irssi! It's a little hard to set up, but well worth the effort!
Labels: IRC, Software, Technology