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| 20 | <h2 id="weechat-tips">WeeChat tips</h2> |
| 21 | <p>2021-01-19 00:00</p> |
| 22 | <p>Here are some handy things I learned from using WeeChat that might be valuable to some people.</p> |
| 23 | <h3 id="page-overview">Page overview</h3> |
| 24 | <!-- vim-markdown-toc GFM --> |
| 25 | <ul> |
| 26 | <li><a href="#adding-an-irc-network-securely">Adding an IRC network securely</a> |
| 27 | <ul> |
| 28 | <li><a href="#registering-your-nickname">Registering your nickname</a></li> |
| 29 | <li><a href="#adding-servers-and-credentials">Adding servers and credentials</a></li> |
| 30 | <li><a href="#changing-your-password">Changing your password</a></li> |
| 31 | </ul></li> |
| 32 | <li><a href="#adding-an-irc-network-insecurely">Adding an IRC network insecurely</a> |
| 33 | <ul> |
| 34 | <li><a href="#registering-your-nickname-1">Registering your nickname</a></li> |
| 35 | <li><a href="#adding-servers-and-credentials-1">Adding servers and credentials</a></li> |
| 36 | <li><a href="#changing-your-password-1">Changing your password</a></li> |
| 37 | </ul></li> |
| 38 | <li><a href="#tweaks-and-tricks">Tweaks and tricks</a></li> |
| 39 | </ul> |
| 40 | <!-- vim-markdown-toc --> |
| 41 | <h3 id="adding-an-irc-network-securely">Adding an IRC network securely</h3> |
| 42 | <p>The tips in this section won’t leave plaintext passwords in <code>~/.weechat/irc.conf</code>.</p> |
| 43 | <h4 id="registering-your-nickname">Registering your nickname</h4> |
| 44 | <pre><code>/msg nickserv register <your-password> <your-email@example.com></code></pre> |
| 45 | <h4 id="adding-servers-and-credentials">Adding servers and credentials</h4> |
| 46 | <pre><code>/secure passphrase <your-password-to-unlock-all-passwords> |
| 47 | /secure set libera.chat_password <your-password> |
| 48 | /server add libera.chat libera.chat/6697 -ssl |
| 49 | /set irc.server.libera.chat.sasl_username "<username>" |
| 50 | /set irc.server.libera.chat.sasl_password "${sec.data.libera.chat_password}" |
| 51 | /set irc.server.libera.chat.autoconnect on |
| 52 | /set irc.server.libera.chat.autojoin "#coolchannel,#anothercoolchannel"</code></pre> |
| 53 | <h4 id="changing-your-password">Changing your password</h4> |
| 54 | <pre><code>/secure set libera.chat_password <new-password> |
| 55 | /save</code></pre> |
| 56 | <h3 id="adding-an-irc-network-insecurely">Adding an IRC network insecurely</h3> |
| 57 | <p>The tips in this section will leave plaintext passwords in <code>~/.weechat/irc.conf</code>.</p> |
| 58 | <h4 id="registering-your-nickname-1">Registering your nickname</h4> |
| 59 | <pre><code>/msg nickserv register <your-password> <your-email@example.com></code></pre> |
| 60 | <h4 id="adding-servers-and-credentials-1">Adding servers and credentials</h4> |
| 61 | <pre><code>/secure set libera.chat_password <your-password> |
| 62 | /server add libera.chat libera.chat/6697 -ssl |
| 63 | /set irc.server.libera.chat.username "<username>" |
| 64 | /set irc.server.libera.chat.password <your-password> |
| 65 | /set irc.server.libera.chat.autoconnect on |
| 66 | /set irc.server.libera.chat.autojoin "#coolchannel,#anothercoolchannel"</code></pre> |
| 67 | <h4 id="changing-your-password-1">Changing your password</h4> |
| 68 | <pre><code>/set irc.server.libera.chat.password <your-new-password> |
| 69 | /save</code></pre> |
| 70 | <h3 id="tweaks-and-tricks">Tweaks and tricks</h3> |
| 71 | <ul> |
| 72 | <li>Marking all buffers as read: <code>alt-h</code></li> |
| 73 | <li>Changing to an unread buffer: <code>alt-a</code></li> |
| 74 | <li>Scrolling up and down a buffer: <code>page up</code>/<code>page down</code></li> |
| 75 | <li>Scrolling through your mentions: <code>alt-n</code>/<code>alt-p</code></li> |
| 76 | <li>Redraw WeeChat: <code>ctrl-l</code></li> |
| 77 | <li>Click a link in the terminal: <code>ctrl click</code></li> |
| 78 | <li>Make long, wrapped links clickable: <code>alt-l</code> (Press <code>alt-l</code> again to return to the normal view)</li> |
| 79 | <li>Changing from buffers 1-9: <code>alt-<number></code></li> |
| 80 | <li>Changing from buffers 10-99: <code>alt-j <number></code></li> |
| 81 | <li>Changing to a buffer by name (allows tab-completion for names): |
| 82 | <ul> |
| 83 | <li><code>/buffer #friends-hangout</code></li> |
| 84 | <li><code>/buffer friends-hangout</code></li> |
| 85 | </ul></li> |
| 86 | <li>Setting an alias for <code>/buffer</code>: <code>/alias add b /buffer</code></li> |
| 87 | <li>Shortening timestamps: <code>/set weechat.look.buffer_time_format "%H:%M"</code></li> |
| 88 | <li>Disabling notifications for users who join and part a channel: <code>/set weechat.look.buffer_notify_default message</code></li> |
| 89 | <li>Limiting username length: <code>/set weechat.look.prefix_align_max 12</code></li> |
| 90 | <li>Limiting buffer name length: <code>/set weechat.bar.buflist.size_max 15</code></li> |
| 91 | <li>Limiting nickname length in the nickname list: <code>/set weechat.bar.nicklist.size_max 12</code></li> |
| 92 | <li>Turn off chat logging: <code>/set logger.level.irc 0</code> (Great if you run WeeChat on a server with limited storage)</li> |
| 93 | <li>Show/hide the buffer list: <code>/bar toggle buflist</code></li> |
| 94 | <li>Show/hide the nickname list: <code>/bar toggle nicklist</code></li> |
| 95 | </ul> |
| 96 | </main> |
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