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sheepdoglord · 2019-01-20 05:47

hey i'm sure people here use hexchat, so i'm just going to ask a
question.

is there anyway to list channels that currently have 0 users? im
connected to a server with permanent channels and some of these
channels arent showing up due to the fact that hexchat wont show me
channels with 0 users.

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thanks so much.

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damiankw · 2019-01-20 05:55

I have no experience with this specifically, but have you been through
the settings to double check there isnt one for this?

If so, you could do it with scripting, just pick up the raw
numeric/output from the list command and print any channels with 0
users somewhere else. I'm not sure how, but I have written Hexchat
scripts in the past and the documentation is fairly good.

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sheepdoglord · 2019-01-20 06:03

hey thanks for the reply. it looks like its a problem only when the
gui is prompted, which is garbage anyway. if im exclusively in the
terminal, there's no issue.

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thanks!

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[deleted] · 2019-01-20 08:50

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frumious · 2019-01-20 13:42

> is there anyway to list channels that currently have 0 users

There is a simple algorithm to generate your list.

* List all channels with one or more user.

* Then list all possible channels names

* Do a set-subtraction of the first from the second.

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ctrljerdel · 2019-01-29 03:30

i believe this relies on what ircd the network is running. there are a
few nets i am on that a /list will return multiple 0 user channels,
whereas other nets will not. ask a ircop what ircd they are running
and if there is a command to do just that outside of /list.