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Screen, multiple windows. Three run irssi 24/7 - irc.gimp.net (gnome guy) - irc.freenode.net (lots of things) - irc.somedomainIadminstrate.de (private irc serv

Screen, multiple windows. Three run irssi 24/7 - irc.gimp.net (gnome guy) - irc.freenode.net (lots of things) - irc.somedomainIadminstrate.de (private irc server, low traffic, for a web browser game) What is your replacement? Mails? Obviously not 'realtime'. I like mailing lists, but they are the 'chess by mail' vs. 'blitz chess' variant and fight lots of problems if you just want to have a talk with multiple people, now. IM? In my private world every IM network sucks. I tend to like XMPP, but - it's just not useful enough. Even if GTalk and Facebook use it, unless federation works well I won't use it for much. Don't get me started on Skype or somesuch nonsense.. This would be my favorite choice, given a better world. Web chat? There are lots of neat web applications. Which, somehow, seem to reinvent IRC. The better they are (for me), the more IRC alike they seem to be. Where's the point?

pavel_lishin 15y ago
Why are you running three instances of irssi, instead of just connecting to three servers?
- darklajid 15y ago
  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.
  - BCM43 15y ago
    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_advanced_windowlist http://quadpoint.org/articles/irssi#channel_statusbar_using_...
  - benjiweber 15y ago
    http://wouter.coekaerts.be/irssi/window_switcher 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.

pavel_lishin 15y ago

Why are you running three instances of irssi, instead of just connecting to three servers?

darklajid 15y ago
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.
- BCM43 15y ago
  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_advanced_windowlist http://quadpoint.org/articles/irssi#channel_statusbar_using_...
- benjiweber 15y ago
  http://wouter.coekaerts.be/irssi/window_switcher 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.