lowlightwin.pl

The opposite of hilightwin.pl

Though hilightwin.pl's goals are to show you all the text that is aimed at you (nick-pings and privmsg's), lowlightwin.pl shows you the opposite -- all the rest of the text.

This is good if you are interested enough in a channel to idle in it, but not enought to make the effort to switch to that window repeatedly.

Installation

1. mkdir -p ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun # (If it's not already there)
2. (cd ~/.irssi/scripts; curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ryanjosephking/irssi-lowlightwin/master/lowlightwin.pl)
3. ln -vsf ~/.irssi/scripts/{lowlightwin.pl,autorun}
4. /load lowlightwin.pl # (or restart irssi)
5. /win new then /win name lowlight then /win down # See irssisplit to attempt to make sense of this.
6. Play around with /win grow and /win shrink
7. When you get things right, /layout save then /save

Updating

Perform steps #2 and #4, above.

Configuration

You can do:

/set lowlight_ignore #noisychan1,#noisychan2

To skip all traffic on those channels (or nicks).

Also, there is:

/set lowlight_say_less on

...which will cause these to be silenced (from /help levels):

• CLIENTNOTICE - Irssi's notices
• CLIENTERROR - Irssi's error messages
• CLIENTCRAP - Some other messages from Irssi

The most noticeable change is that information that would've gone to your "(status)" window will no longer be part of the lowlight window.

Complaints to:

rking@panoptic.com