Comments on: Irssi Handling JOINS/PARTS/QUITS

By: sven

sven — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:49:30 +0000

/set window_default ALL -JOINS -PARTS -QUITS does not work in my irssi. /set window_default_level does work, though

By: JCarroll

JCarroll — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:33:21 +0000

Thanks man – this article has helped me a lot! I seem to be having a problem tho: I logged out of IRSSI (windows version) and when I logged back in the next morning all my chats were going to main/first window (this is because window_check_level_first was on…). That setting saved… but none of my other settings saved. As soon as I turned it off, everything went back to the way it was originally (JOINS, PARTS, and QUITS started going to their respective windows and stopped piping to the JUNK window.

Also, /set window_default ALL -JOINS -PARTS -QUITS (on both my debian AND win64 box) says it is an invalid command.

Thoughts? (google search for “/set window_default” so I can debug why this didn’t work turned up very little — mostly your site).

Thanks again for the post.

By: Jamie Kirkpatrick

Jamie Kirkpatrick — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:35:11 +0000

Good work that man! This is perfect for me…I can’t stand all those “informative” messages getting in the way of real conversation…

By: XeroXer

XeroXer — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:30:50 +0000

I really like the setup apart from one problem I ended up with.
My guess is that it has to do with my setup but all my private messages started a new window but all they wrote ended up in my 1st window, which was a bit annoying.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:23:16 +0000

Flexible, yes, but don’t get too optimistic because you’re going to have to hack through some pretty dense and occultly documented perl. Not that I don’t like perl, or am not up for an occasional recreational diversion into hackery, but I guess it’s been a while since I’ve fancied myself a computer geek.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:46:15 +0000

@Daniel Thx. That was a typo in the post. In regards to QUITS, they are server bound, but they’re still sent to your channel window as a QUITS level. You can still send these to another window, of which my post outlines, and succeeds with.

By: Daniel Lange

Daniel Lange — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:48:18 +0000

With my irssi (v0.8.14) it’s /set window_check_level_first ON (levelcheck exchanged).
Quits are not channel bound as you do not quit a channel but the whole server, same for nick changes.
The patch for http://bugs.irssi.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=204&project=5 also has a more general solution that may be of interest.