Sunday, February 17 2013
By Sébastien Helleu on Sunday, February 17 2013, 13:29 - irc
A new option has been added for the IRC smart filter: irc.look.smart_filter_join_unmask, with default value 30 (in minutes).
IRC plugin will automatically unmask a filtered join of a nick, if he spoke within N minutes after the join (N being the value of new option irc.look.smart_filter_join_unmask). Moreover, nick changes are tracked, and will be unmasked with the join.
Events triggering the unmask of join are: a message (can be CTCP), a notice or an update of topic.
Wednesday, March 9 2011
By Sébastien Helleu on Wednesday, March 9 2011, 19:00 - core
It is now possible to use a list of buffers in filters. Exclusion of buffers is allowed using prefix "!".
Example: add IRC smart filter on all freenode channels, but not channels beginning with "#private":
/filter add irc_smart irc.freenode.*,!*#private* irc_smart_filter *
Saturday, October 25 2008
By Sébastien Helleu on Saturday, October 25 2008, 19:30 - irc
A new smart filter for IRC join/part/quit message has been added. It is disabled by default (so you'll see all join/part/quit by default).
To enable it, use following commands:
/set irc.look.smart_filter on /filter add irc_smart * irc_smart_filter *
You can setup delay: /set irc.look.smart_filter_delay 5
When a nick spoke on channel during past X minutes (where X is delay irc.look.smart_filter_delay), its join/part/quit will be displayed by default. Otherwise, if nick did not speak for a long time, all join/part/quit messages will be tagged with "irc_smart_filter". So you have to define a filter on this tag to hide join/part/quit from users that are not speaking on channel (see command above).
Saturday, March 22 2008
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 add joinquit * irc_join,irc_part,irc_quit */filter add spamfilter * * spam/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.