Irssi hacks
Irssi is a nice text-based IRC client. The documentation is somewhat between great to useless though. Digging through the chaos I have created a few hacks which I will show here from time to time.
Surviving in high-traffic channels
If you are doing user-support in large channels like #debian you will quickly drown. To keep you above the surface you may want to hilight all new questions. This hilighting expressions displays lines in yellow that don't have a colon in it (like "ChrisH: are you serious?") which are directed at a certain person and looks for lines ending in a question mark. Example: "Can anyone help me set up my printer in KDE?"
/hilight -regexp -color %g -actcolor %n ^[^: ]+ .+\?$
Furthermore it helps to skip useless messages like who joined or left the channel:
/ignore #debian JOINS PARTS QUITS
Suggestions are welcome...
