permanent logging in irssi across networks/servers and channels.

[shirish शिरीष]

Hi all,
First of all thanx to all the devs. who made lot of pains making
irssi. It's a good IRC client and there are a few issues/bugs or stuff
I don't know which would make it great.

For e.g. Is there a way to have permanent logging in irssi across
networks/servers and channels where I participate in ?

I saw this :-

http://irssi.org/documentation/startup#c7

"Easiest way to start logging with Irssi is to use autologging. With
it Irssi logs all channels and private messages to specified
directory. You can turn it on with

/SET autolog ON

By default it logs pretty much everything execept CTCPS or CRAP
(/WHOIS requests, etc). You can specify the logging level yourself
with

/SET autolog_level ALL -CRAP -CLIENTCRAP -CTCPS (this is the default)

By default irssi logs to ~/irclogs/<servertag>/<target>.log. You can
change this with

/SET autolog_path ~/irclogs/$tag/$0.log (this is the default)

The path is automatically created if it doesn't exist. $0 specifies
the target (channel/nick). You can make irssi automatically rotate the
logs by adding date/time formats to the file name. The formats are in
"man strftime" format. For example

/SET autolog_path ~/irclogs/%Y/$tag/$0.%m-%d.log

For logging only some specific channels or nicks, see /HELP log " -
irssi documentation

Now my first issue with irssi is/would be /SET autolog ON as this
seems to be a switch which I would have to manually turn on. Isn't
there a way to turn it on automatically so the moment I switch to
irssi via CLI logging is on ?

Once I understand how to achieve this would ask couple of more queries
in this regard.

Another query is if I do /HELP in irssi how do I get out of it ?

Looking forward to info.

[H6r6tiqu6]

Hi. When I saw this, I tought you were talkin about ircII/EPIC/BitchX, because they open the "help mode", instead of just printing the help in stdout. Like irssi is supposed to do.
But if you don't want to see the help on the screen, you should type /clear. It is still possible to sroll up, in a xterm if you need to see a particular point of the help.

Post by shirish शिरीष
Another query is if I do /HELP in irssi how do I get out of it ?
Looking forward to info.

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Post by shirish शिरीष
For e.g. Is there a way to have permanent logging in irssi across
networks/servers and channels where I participate in ?

Run this:

/SET autolog_level ALL -CRAP -CLIENTCRAP -CTCPS
/SET autolog_path ~/irclogs/$tag/$0.log
/SET autolog ON
/SAVE

And it should save it to your config file.

Best,
-at

[tamouse mailing lists]

Post by shirish शिरीष
For e.g. Is there a way to have permanent logging in irssi across
networks/servers and channels where I participate in ?

I'm thinking the key thing you're missing is the /save command --
after you do all your configurations, use the /save command to write
the configuration to .irssi/config, and it will reload them all next
time you start.

[tamouse mailing lists]

Post by shirish शिरीष
Another query is if I do /HELP in irssi how do I get out of it ?

There is no "help" mode in irssi by default.* If you type /help, it
will display the output on whatever window is accepting CLIENTCRAP
messages, in the default config, that's the (status) window.

(* it's possible there are modules &/r scripts that do something different.)