Protodrew's Tilde Guides

setting up weechat

IRC is something I have wanted to participate in for a while, but I was never really able to get it to stick. I mostly used hexchat because it was easy to setup; but I didn't like the way it looked very much and wanted to be edgy and cool and a terminal user, so I decided to get started with weechat

I used it a few times, but hated having to scroll through the getting started page over and over again to find the few shortcuts I wanted for basic usage.

making this is equal parts guide for others and notes for myself so I can just have the bits I care about on a simple page. This assumes that you have weechat installed, but nothing else

adding a server

This is the easiest bit, just find the url of the irc server you want and use the command `/server add SERVERNAME url -flags` the following is an example for setting up the tilde.chat server `/server add tilde irc.tilde.chat/6697 -ssl`

setting up server options

IRC doesn't have any kind of centralized profile server, so weechat allows us to set some parameters for the server to get and interpret info about us. This allows us to do things like identify ourselves through nickserv or set a default username

The structure for these commands is `/set irc.server.SERVERNAME.field "option"`. So to set a default nickname I use `/set irc.server.tilde.nicks "protodrew"`, which will automatically generate protodrew1, protodrew2 ... as backups

other useful commands

/set irc.server.SERVERNAME.autoconnect on
/set irc.server.SERVERNAME.command "/msg nickserv identify PASSWORD"
/set irc.server_default.autojoin_dynamic on
/set irc.server.SERVERNAME.autojoin "#channel1,#channel2"

joining a server

Once you've done all the setup, if you enabled autoconnect you could leave and rejoin, or simply use the command `/connect SERVERNAME`

useful keyboard commands

F5/F6 — move forward and backword through the list of joined channels

more to come as other shortcuts become useful to me

and that's it. Hope this was helpful ^_^