WeeChat DevCenter

Thursday, September 4 2008

Ignore command, reloaded!

By Sébastien Helleu on Thursday, September 4 2008, 20:23 - irc

The new /ignore command is now available. You can ignore nicks (or hostnames), using regex.

Note: this command will be improved in near future with more options.

Some exemples (you can find them with /help ignore):

  • ignore nick "toto" everywhere: /ignore add toto
  • ignore host "toto@domain.com" on freenode server: /ignore add toto@domain.com freenode
  • ignore host "toto*@*.domain.com" on freenode/#weechat: /ignore add toto*@*.domain.com freenode #weechat

Tuesday, September 2 2008

New version of script buffers.pl

By Sébastien Helleu on Tuesday, September 2 2008, 20:29 - scripts

Script buffers.pl has been improved. Now you can hide categories, and there's color for lines according to hotlist (activity on buffers). There's new config options, you can set with /set command:

Hide categories:

  • /set plugins.var.perl.buffers.show_category off

Change colors (replace "color" by your color, which may be "fg" or "fg,bg"):

  • /set plugins.var.perl.buffers.color_number color
  • /set plugins.var.perl.buffers.color_slash color
  • /set plugins.var.perl.buffers.color_hotlist_low color
  • /set plugins.var.perl.buffers.color_hotlist_message color
  • /set plugins.var.perl.buffers.color_hotlist_private color
  • /set plugins.var.perl.buffers.color_hotlist_highlight color

A screenshot is better than long speech: weechat_bar_buffers_2008-09-02.png

Updated on 2017-05-13: the script is now obsolete, replaced by the builtin buflist plugin, introduced in version 1.8.

Wednesday, August 20 2008

Upgrade command is back!

By Sébastien Helleu on Wednesday, August 20 2008, 21:32 - core

New version of /upgrade command is now available. Today it's working for core and IRC plugin. Almost all code has been rewritten, so maybe there are new bugs ;)

Known bugs/limits today:

  • IRC plugin: not working if WeeChat is currently reconnecting to server
  • IRC plugin: all messages queued (anti-fllood when sending to server) are lost during upgrade
  • upgrade does not work for xfer plugin

Tuesday, May 6 2008

Xfer plugin

By Sébastien Helleu on Tuesday, May 6 2008, 21:14 - plugins

A new "xfer" plugin has been added. It replaces old IRC DCC code.
This plugin is called by IRC plugin to initiate direct chat and file transfer (still by /dcc command). In future, it may be used by other plugins. Moreover, new protocols can be easily added to xfer plugin, if other plugins need that.

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Saturday, April 19 2008

Script iset.pl

By Sébastien Helleu on Saturday, April 19 2008, 20:55 - scripts

A new script iset.pl is now available. With that script, you can change WeeChat options with better interface than /set.
Help is available with /help iset when script is loaded.

Screenshot: WeeChat iset

Updated on 2017-06-26: the script is now obsolete, replaced by the builtin fset plugin.

Saturday, March 29 2008

Script weetris.pl

By Sébastien Helleu on Saturday, March 29 2008, 20:57 - scripts

A new script weetris.pl is now available! You can now play to your favorite game inside WeeChat :)

Screenshot: WeeTris

Short instructions:

  • keys are:
    • Left/Right/Bottom: move
    • Up: rotate
    • Alt+n: start a new game
  • number of lines are displayed

Incoming features:

  • pause key
  • view of next form
  • save/resume game
  • network game: vs other players (over IRC or other network protocol)

Updated on 2019-09-29: the script has been rewritten in Python: weetris.py.

Saturday, March 22 2008

Filters and tags

By Sébastien Helleu on Saturday, March 22 2008, 08:43 - core

Filters have been added. This feature replaces old /ignore command for IRC, but is more powerful and is not specific to IRC, it applies on buffer content. With new /filter command, you can ask WeeChat to filter lines displayed, by tags and/or regular expression on content of line. Unlike old /ignore command, the /filter command only hides lines, they are not removed, and you can see them when you want.

To understand filters, you should know what are tags. Each line displayed in a (formated) buffer may have optional tags, which are one or more words for this line. Number of tags is not limited, but should be reasonable (4 or 5 max). Tags are not visible (not displayed in buffer), they are used to filter content of buffers.

IRC plugin uses tags for all messages displayed if they're issued from an IRC server. Tags are: "irc_xxx" where "xxx" is the command received. For example if someone joins IRC channel, line with "--> nick has joined #channel" will have tag "irc_join". For IRC numeric command, tag is "irc_cmd_xxx" where "xxx" is number (3 digits), and second tag is "irc_numeric".

Some examples of filters:

  • filter IRC join/part/quit messages (if you find them boring!): /filter add joinquit * irc_join,irc_part,irc_quit *
  • filter lines containing word "spam": /filter add spamfilter * * spam
  • filter lines containing "weechat sucks" on channel #weechat: /filter add sucks irc.freenode.#weechat * weechat sucks


You can enable/disable filters by /filter command (look at /help filter) or with shortcut key meta + "=".

In a later version, you'll be able to see indicator in status bar, to know if filters are enabled or not, and if something is filtered on current buffer (lines hidden). This will be possible with new bars.

Saturday, March 15 2008

Bars

By Sébastien Helleu on Saturday, March 15 2008, 17:09 - core

Bars have been added to WeeChat. They are used to display informations around chat area. In near future, some existing items will become real bars (like title, nicklist, status, input).
Plugin and script API is now ready for using these bars. Following screenshot is a demo of scripts buffers.pl and uptime.pl:

Updated on 2008-10-12: new bars are now used: title, nicklist, status, input.

weechat_bars_buffers_uptime.png

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