Irssi Replacing Pidgin

only few months ago, I found out this incredible irc client Irssi, mainly because huntxu urged me to join some irc channels while pidgin kept crashing for reasons unknown even though it has been re-re-recompiled… now irssi is replacing pidgin.

first, what Irssi can do?

it’s an irc client obviously. but it’s more. bitlbee added support for jabber, msn, and many other protocols, which is why irssi can almost replace pidgin.

another reason why irssi is awesome is the perl scripts. there are many here .  for now i’m only using a few, but that’s enough for me.

configuring irssi is easy, just a few words the first time you start the channels and you’re auto-joined ‘for the rest of your life’. loading scripts are also simple. no wonder i can handle it. make typing ‘/help’ a habit whenever you encountered any problems or loading a new script.

some would recommend using irssi with screen. well, so far i couldn’t see the benefit of it, for i’m not much of a coder and occasionally, i need to refer to manpage while writing something, screen can’t provide a dual view…

if you’re interested in my irssi configs, pls checkout  my github for irssi. (just click the big github picture on the right and you’ll see)

for pidgin,

it supports more protocols with plugins which i don’t need. it supports msn protocol but sometimes just doesn’t work. it supports fetion which may be the cause of crashes. it supports file transfer but i only exchange small files with huntxu. and it’s absolutely much larger than irssi.

arch linux+awesome+irssi: keep it simple and stupid.