Re: highlight me in channels.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:42:00PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>Hi,
>
>If i am connected to multiple channels and if i am not looking at the window
>for some time and if someone pings me in irssi how would i know which
>channel i got a message for me. I dont want to use system beep as it is
>little annoying. I am reading http://quadpoint.org/articles/irssi but still
>i am not able to figure it out.I have loaded hilightwin.pl script in irssi
>but its not hinting me who has pinged me.

these are the only components you should need:

1. /hilight kaushal (whatever your nick/etc is.)
     /help hilight for more options
2. hilightwin.pl in ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun/, and loaded
3. a window named "hilight" -- either existing or new, e.g.:
     /window new
     /window name hilight
4. when you have things configured the way you want, don't forget to:
     /layout save
     /save

the way hilightwin.pl works, copies of entire hilighted lines should be 
copied to the hilight window, and (by default) the nickname of the 
person speaking will be the part hilighted.

unless your theme/color/terminal settings are broken, you should be able 
to test irssi's built-in hilight feature by itself first, without 
loading hilightwin.pl.  try that & let us know which part doesn't work 
:)

to get beep-on-hilight working in addition to all that (which I realize 
you don't want :), you need:

4. /set beep_msg_level msgs dccmsgs hilight (for example)
(note: bell_beeps is unrelated -- controls behavior of spoken ^Gs)
5. /set beep_when_away on (or to your liking)
6. /set beep_when_window_active on (or to your liking)
7. if you're using it, screen configured to pass through beeps as beeps:
     vbell off
     bell "Bell in window %^G"  # to pass through from non-active windows
8. your terminal emulator may need to be configured to allow beeps
9. if using X11, "xset b on".  if X11.app, "Use system alert effect"
10. for extra annoyance on OSX: System Preferences -> Universal Access 
-> Hearing -> Flash the screen when an alert sound occurs

hope this helps,
Tris