Irssi customization and help for a beginner.
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KZISME · 2012-10-09 01:45

Hello I'm new to using Irssi , and does anyone have a decent place
where I can learn the basics?  I've been using Quassel , but I want to
try  a new client.

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Akama · 2012-10-09 02:34

Contains almost everything: [http://irssi.org/beginner/
](http://irssi.org/beginner/)


Basics of scripts:
[http://ossowicki.com/?p=102](http://ossowicki.com/?p=102)

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[deleted] · 2012-10-09 03:17

Use tmux ;-)

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Akama · 2012-10-09 03:32

You can you byobu, tmux, or screen, it's largely a personal choice. I
use byobu. tmux is also a great way of doing it :)

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[deleted] · 2012-10-09 03:56

Hadn't tried byobu, thanks for the tip. screen and tmux handle things
differently - so you'd want to read the manual for important, mission-
critical processes. but either is fine for irc :p

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Akama · 2012-10-09 04:02

I don't know, IRC is a mission-critical process. I don't know what I
would do without it :D

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benburhans · 2012-10-09 05:01

Welcome to the club! I would recommend stopping by #irssi on freenode
(my favourite) or IRCnet if you have specific questions after reading
the documentation, which ranges from great novice tutorials to
advanced technical references. If you plan on using irssi for IM
networks or other protocols, I highly recommend
[bitlbee](http://bitlbee.org), although there is a somewhat stable
[irssi-xmpp](http://cybione.org/~irssi-xmpp/) plugin if you just need
jabber (google talk, facebook).

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[deleted] · 2012-10-09 05:09

Have an upvote, Sir.

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KZISME · 2012-10-09 05:22

I'm currently having general connection issues that im trying to sort
out , but I'll check out the links for sure thank you!

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wuffers · 2012-10-10 01:35

I'd honestly suggest [weechat](http://weechat.org). It's extremely
similar to irssi, but much more advanced, and is more actively
developed. It has things like plugins that can be written in almost
any scripting language (Ruby, perl, python, etc.) and a built-in
package manager of sorts for scripts. I'd suggest looking into it. I
was a die-hard irssi user for a *long* time and switched to weechat,
never looking back.

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KZISME · 2012-10-10 02:11

I'll look into it!  For some reason I can't even connect to
freenode...I can connect on an in-browser IRC client and I'm able to
ping the server fine , so I'm not sure whats going on

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wuffers · 2012-10-10 02:16

What sort of error do you get? It could be something like the nickname
you're trying to use being taken. By default `irssi` uses your
username on your computer as the default nick, if I recall correctly.

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KZISME · 2012-10-10 04:43

Its just a no route to host error.

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wuffers · 2012-10-10 21:08

Huh, that's strange. I dunno what would cause that, sorry :(

Make sure the address is correct, maybe?

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telnet_reddit_80 · 2012-10-13 23:23

Have you figured it out? If not, [paste your
attempts](https://gist.github.com/), info about your OS and we'll get
you chatting in no time.

Irssi is pretty sweet and not that difficult to configure, you
shouldn't even touch the config fie.

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hintss · 2012-10-14 00:21

do you have resolve_prefer_ipv6 set to on?

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KZISME · 2012-10-14 04:28

how would I check this?

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KZISME · 2012-10-14 04:29

I'm home for a few days ill try to reconnect when im at my dorm and
then paste results

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hintss · 2012-10-14 05:24

run /set resolve_prefer_ipv6
you can tab-complete it, btw