On: Irc in bash

[darklajid]

A matter of practicality. Each instance is joined to a couple of channels.

I could join them all, but the point is that I tend to be in 8 +/-2 channels in both gimp.net and freenode.org. Plus a couple in the private network. Switching between more than 10 channels in irssi is too much of a hassle for me, more than 20 channels is unpractical.

Plus, this way I can label the screen windows (Freenode, Programming) or (GIMP, Gnome development) and have a better way to context switch between completely disconnected things.

[benjiweber → darklajid]

http://wouter.coekaerts.be/irssi/window_switcher will change your life. Makes using dozens of channels practical.

It gives you find as you type for channel names. e.g. to switch to #mono you could probably type control-g mo<enter>

It shows the matched channel names in the status bar as it filters.

[BCM43 → darklajid]

You do know about the /win command, right? That combined with a window list [0] works great.

0. http://quadpoint.org/articles/irssi#channel_statusbar_using_...