Re: Ignore join/leave messages but exclude from active users

On 12/01/12 23:36, Jonson Paul wrote:
> Hello.
>
> People join and leave very often on some channels that I'm using. This can
> sometimes be so much that it makes it hard to follow conversations, so I
> configured irssi to ignore all joins, parts, quits and modes messages.
> However, while that is an improvement it's still not perfect because I am
> interested in some of these actions, particularly from the ones that have
> recently sent a message to the channel. How can I configure irssi to ignore
> all those status messages except for those coming from people that recently
> talked?
>
> - Paul


Honestly, I don't know.

Anyway, couple of years ago I posted a question about a similar 
problem; as I was struggling for days and nights to find a way to 
transfer those actions to one of status bars.

The best I could do in irssi is to have one action displayed in the 
status bar, but it would not change as the next action occurs.

Being an avid ircII user (fanatical !) for a decade before I tried to 
switch to irssi, I pretty much used to have parts/quits/kicks and 
joins in my lower status bar. The actions are shown and changed in 
the bar in a "real time", in an instant as they occur.

That's not a default setting in ircII. The dafault is just one status 
bar, but you can add another one, just like in irssi. There is a very 
simple script (called "silent") included in every distribution of 
ircII, to have those actions show up in your lower status bar. It 
works beautifully in ScrollZ too.

The best answer I got on my question on how to get the same behaviour 
in irssi, to have actions displayed in one of status bars, was 
something like: "you can always write a script..."

That much I knew without asking. But I am not a scripter, and really 
I don't know how to script in irssi. I know a bit in ircII, but this 
new IRC client to me is like "there be dragons" land.
If I knew how to do it, I would never post the question to the 
mailing list.

Please, from your experience by experimenting with your actions, 
removing or showing them in bars, I'll be really thankful if you can 
hint what to do with this, how to show actions changing in my status bar.

Thank you very much.