Irssi

Fast, modular, Perl-scriptable, and low memory imprint IRC client. The official client of Buttes, Bantown, and Insub.

To scroll in irssi, simply hit escape, then p to go up or n to go down. Remember to hit escape for each window move. It couldn't possibly be easier! As an alternative, if you happen to live in the current era, you can just use the "Page Up" and "Page Down" keys, though irssi loses half of its fun if you do that, and of course that only works if you're actually using a terminal, and not a VT100 compliant xterm, in which case you're just scrolling your xterm.

As a drama-generating technique

EPIC and BitchX fanatics are known to get penis rash when confronted with the facts of irssi's excellent UI and superior scriptability. It is suggested that you join #epic and #bitchx and scroll "irssi 4 lyf" in rainbow figlet.

Alternatively, irssi users can be butthurt should you suggest they use an IRC client that lets you use the magical technological advance known as a "Graphic Interface" instead of using a 30-year-old Command line.

IRC: Serious business

As the irssi faq notifies us:

Q: How do I autorejoin channels after being kicked?
- A: That's evil and you shouldn't do it... If you're joined to channels who kick people for fun, try changing channels or something.

In this way, the creators of irssi remind us that the internets truly is serious fucking business!

Of course, in a completely contradictory manner, you can find the autorejoin script at http://scripts.irssi.org/. Thankfully you have to configure it make it that much harder.

Awesome Features (That irssi doesn't have)

Proxy support
Easy user setup
Understandable interface
Efficiency
Not depending on fucking GLib

Use a bash script to connect

Face it, you'll be too fucking high to remember how to connect to IRC using IRSSI, fortunately, this bash script will make using IRSSI nearly effortless.

#!/bin/bash
# File: irc.sh (though renaming it "irc" is better.)
# Usage: ~/irc NETWORK
# Info: Launch irssi with ease
# TODO: Host name changes (use something other than your isp)
 
if [ -z $1 ]; then
 network="ed"
elif [ -n $1 ]; then
 network=$1
fi
 
# open one of these networks
#  $irc[0]=SERVER
#  $irc[1]=NICK
#  $irc[2]=PASSWORD
#  irc=( zero one two ... )
case $network in
  # Encyclopedia Dramatica
  "ed") irc=( irc.anonops.net YourNick1 YourPassword1 ) ;;
  # Freenode
  "fn"|"freenode") irc=( irc.freenode.net YourNick2 YourPassword2 ) ;;
  # Add more networks here
  
  # Everything else
  *) echo "ERROR! Invalid network." >&2; exit 1 ;;
esac
 
irssi -c ${irc[0]} -n ${irc[1]} -w ${irc[2]}

When you are done writing it, chmod u+x ~/irc to make it executable.

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