Irssi — How to use it in a comfortable way?

Irssi is an IRC client program for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Microsoft Windows. It was originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later in January 1999.

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📓 The name ‘Irssi’ (IRC in Finnish) is a bit weird and I often spell it wrongly. So, I normally make a alias to it. For example, alias ichat=irssi to make it easy to remember and spell.

Install

> sudo pacman -S irssi

📓 Check download page for installation guide on different Linux distributions or Windows.

Start

When start Irssi, you will probably see the same terminal interface like below one which is quite crude.

You can see the same terminal interface only when you see start irssi for first time. After /quit , it will create ~/.irssi/config automatically. Then, when you start it again, the terminal interface will be a bit different — simpler.