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An extremely powerful command line IRC client that supports plugins written in Perl.

Irssi is a powerful command-line IRC client. It supports plugins, connections to multiple servers, window management, and more.

Irssi is available on Windows, Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X.

It is popular among users of terminal multiplexers such as gnu-screen and tmux.

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How can I connect to the same server in multiple irssi instances?

I have an irssi session which is connected to Freenode (via /server fn), in which I am in multiple related channels. This session is inside of a tmux instance which has other terminals, also related to this topic. I have set irssi to automatically…
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In irssi, how do I display previous chats of current chan, or current user if in bitblee?

When I reopen irssi, I'd like to display - easily and from inside irssi - previous conversations of a chan, or a query window with specific user (mostly for private conversation in bitlbee). I can obviously find logs, it's set in my ~/.irssi/config…
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How can I get irssi-proxy to send me missed mentions when I connect?

I have an irssi session running in my VPS. I connect to it via irssi-proxy using Xchat on my laptop or Andchat on my Android phone. Is there any way I can make it send all messages containing my nick since my last proxy connection to my client when…
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With Irssi you can /rmreconns to abort timed-out conections. Is there a command to force it to reconnect *now*?

I have an IRC server running on my personal computer, and I use an ssh tunnel to connect to it from a more reliable box (i.e. one where my daughter can't reach the power button). Occasionally the power will be cut from my box, causing the connection…
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How do you highlight ops' messages in Irssi?

I'm watching a large IRC channel with a lot of noise and precious few ops. How can I have all messages from ops highlighted?
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Is there a way to delay irssi's channel re-join during reconnect until after auth has occurred?

When I am connected to an invite-only channel and I experience a network outage, there's a race condition between automatic auth'ing and rejoining channels. (ETA: If it matters, I'm using CertFP (client SSL cert) to auth.) If auth is too slow, irssi…
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Are there any command line IRC clients that use readline?

I'm currently using irssi as my irc client, which is ok, mostly, but there are a couple of things that would make the chat experience better: readline support -- the ability to use vi key bindings in chat like I do everywhere else would be…
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irssi: how to hide names when joining channel?

In irssi, every time I join a channel, a full listing of names is displayed. This is particularly annoying when channels are re-joined due to connection issues (slack irc gateways are particularly problematic for this). Is there any way to hide,…
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Difference between /wc and /part in irssi IRC client

What is the difference between /wc(closes the current window) and /part(parting the channel) commands in irssi IRC client? I am aware that in some occasions /part does not close a window(for example if connection with IRC server is lost or if it is…
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How to autofocus already joined channels in irssi with /join?

I've got a bunch of windows (>80) in irssi. Quite often I quickly want to switch the active window to #channelX, without knowing which window number it has. Cycling through all of them is useless too of course. I'm not sure where to find the answer,…
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IRSSI: HilightWin is showing Joins/Parts/Quits

Hilightwin.pl is showing Joins/Parts/Quits from all my channels. I would assume that it is an issue that involves levels, except I have no idea where to start. Some plugins that I use that might be…
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Irssi, identical rooms on two servers

I connect to two servers with my irssi irc client at the same time. Let's call them serverA and serverB. Both servers have a chat room called #xyz. However when I join #xyz it only connects me to the room on serverA. But I want to connect to the irc…
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Is it possible to change a server tag in irssi? How?

I've been connected a few IRC nets for months and somehow one of them got a screwy server tag. I'd like to be able to rename it. Is this possible?
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Sending notifications from irssi to wmii

So this is two questions in one. Simply setting PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]2;BLAH\007" will change an xterm titlebar to the string "BLAH", even under wmii. Of course, I can also change the command to write directly, using echo "BLAH" | wmiir…
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IRSSI: Disable bell on activity in certain channel

I use IRSSI (Win 8.1 x64 + cygwin + SSH to remote host, sometimes via putty instead of cygwin) and it's configured to flash taskbar button whenever there's activity in any channel or private chat. There's a bot in one of the channels I'm in which…
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