quassel-irssi

An irssi plugin to connect to quassel core

You can discuss about it on #quassel-irssi on Freenode.

Huge thanks to QuasselDroid. QuasselDroid protocol code is way easier to read than Quassel's.

How to build

First install irssi-dev (on debian-based distributions) or irssi-devel (on rpm distributions), everything needed to compile C code, based on glib2 and git. You might also need SSL libs (libssl-dev on debian) Then:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/phhusson/quassel-irssi.git
cd quassel-irssi/core
make user_install

How to use

Edit ~/.irssi/config and add a quassel chatnet with Quassel type, and your quassel server accordingly:

chatnets = {
  quassel_phh = {
    type = "Quassel";
  };
};

servers = (
  { address = "quassel.phh.me"; port = "4242"; chatnet = "quassel_phh"; password="password"; use_ssl="yes"; }
);

You may disable ssl if you really need to.

You also need to have your login equal to your nick:

settings = {
  core = { nick = "phh"; };
}

(I'm guessing it's not needed, you can specifiy it on /connect command)

Then, launch irssi, and do:

/load quassel
/connect quassel_phh

(where quassel_phh is the chatnet name)

To automtically connect to it, you can add:

load quassel
connect quassel_phh

in your ~/.irssi/startup

If someone knows how to do all this 100% from irssi text frontend, i'd appreciate it :-)

Associated scripts

trackbar.pl: quassel-irssi implements trackar.pl behaviours, but linked with the core: the trackbar is synchronized among quassel clients.
adv_windowlist.pl hidden buffers have -1 activity level. adv_windowlist.pl compares activity level to awl_hide_data, which by default is set to 0. Meaning, adv_windowlist.pl, in its default setting, will only show unhidden buffers.

Available settings

In appropriate chatnet section (in this example, quassel_phh section), you can add some settings:

legacy is a boolean to define wether to use the legacy (< 0.10) protocol, or the newer one, which includes compression.
load_backlog is an integer between 0, 1, 2 to load backlog on connect. 0 means no loading, 1 means loading backlog on unhidden buffers, 2 means loading backlog on all buffers
backlog_additional is a positive integer to specify how much backlog you want to get. By default, quassel-irssi gets max 150 unread messages per buffer. Setting backlog_additional to X requests X additional messages to the unread messages.

Phh's config

I'm using the following scripts:

adv_windowlist.pl List "open" buffers
go.pl I have many opened buffers, so i do /go chan when i don't have a shortcut to a buffer. Because the channel names in irssi start with X-# where X is the number of network, i deleted the ^ line 104, to be able to just do /go quassel-irssi
nickcolor.pl
usercount.pl

If you're using screen, you may want to add nicklist.pl.

Dependencies

You'll need basic build systems, openssl, irssi, and glib libraries and includes to build this.

For instance on a debian/ubuntu:

apt-get install build-essential libglib2.0-dev irssi-dev libssl-dev

Additional notes

If you don't want to have your password in your config file, you can drop the password="" option and call: /server quassel-core.example.net 0 [yourpassword]

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