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MacIrssi 0.8.6

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MacIrssi is based on the *nix IRC client irssi. MacIrssi is a powerful, free of charge, open source IRC client. It combines the power of the irssi engine with an elegant and flexible GUI. See this page for more related info.

What's New

Version 0.8.6:

Large preferences refactor, preferences now affect their values immediately.
New Server and Network preference panes, equivalent to the /server and /network commands for setting up connections.
New Appearance preference pane, includes a written theme preview for better stability; font settings for Irssi fonts.
Shortcut support, old shortcut system is gone and replaced with a new system capable of mapping any key mappable to a menu item. Old F1-F12 shortcuts are copied to the new system on first launch.
Added /itunes command, prints your current iTunes song in the channel.
Improved text encoding support, text encoding is now set globally in preferences and also affects the correct variables in the Irssi core.
Nickname list can now be hidden globally from the Appearance preference pane.
Many more subtle changes I've forgotten about.

Version 0.8.6:

Large preferences refactor, preferences now affect their values immediately.
New Server and Network preference panes, equivalent to the /server and /network commands for setting up connections.
New Appearance preference pane, includes a written theme preview for better stability; font settings for Irssi fonts.
Shortcut support, old shortcut system is gone and replaced more...

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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MacIrssi User Discussion (Write a Review)

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+544

Negritude commented on 24 Nov 2010

Lawd MacIrssi, Lawd MacIrssi on me...

[Version 0.8.6]

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cbx322 commented on 02 Sep 2009

Perl support for 10.5, pls!

[Version 0.8.6.5]

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Matt Wright (developer) replied on 02 Sep 2009

I'm working on it, however it was more important to get a working Snow Leopard build and this necessitated the change in perl support.

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cbx322 replied on 02 Sep 2009

thx for your response, very appreciated, without perl irssi is only half of the cake

+40

archaeogeek commented on 21 Aug 2009

Sets to ASCII by default, the preferences gui is broken and will reset the program back to ASCII requiring people who want proper support for, say, unicode to do /set term_charset = utf-8 on the console to get it. Ridiculous.

[Version 0.8.6.4]

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Matt Wright (developer) replied on 02 Sep 2009

I appreciate it was annoying, possibly not as world ending as you implied though. It is now fixed in 0.8.6.5 onwards. If you find bugs like these, please feel free to file a ticket in my trac installation at http://trac.sysctl.co.uk/macirssi/.

+40

archaeogeek replied on 15 Sep 2009

"Not as world ending"
Which is why it remains on the dock, the app is great, but still annoying at times, I also thought there was an existing bug report about this on the trac (much better filed than I usually do them)

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cbx322 commented on 12 Aug 2009

so far so good, but LASTLOG is not working: unknown command

[Version 0.8.6.4]

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Matt Wright (developer) replied on 02 Sep 2009

I'm sorry, /lastlog is a feature of the curses text frontend of Irssi which is not compiled into Irssi when it is compiled for inclusion in MacIrssi. (MacIrssi counts as a completely separate frontend). Adding a MacIrssi implementation isn't planned at the moment, if you file it in trac as a ticket I can try and plan it for future work

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cbx322 replied on 02 Sep 2009

It compiles using macports. May be this will help for investigation.

Matt Wright (developer) replied on 02 Sep 2009

Sorry, this was not the problem. I can compile the fe-text front end no problem, however the MacIrssi GUI counts as a completely separate frontend (fe-aqua) and therefore fe-text is never compiled in alongside fe-text. This is why there is no /lastlog at the moment because the command itself is part of fe-text, not the Irssi core.

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cbx322 replied on 03 Sep 2009

Ah, okay, understood, thx for explaining.

Matreya commented on 21 Apr 2009

It would be nice if there was a way to vary the opacity of the window, it's hard to read IRC channels when there's browser windows behind

[Version 0.8.6.4]

+683

jazzyguy commented on 28 Mar 2009

Can someone tell me how I can bring up a Channel List once I am on a server.

[Version 0.8.6.1]

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zwiggybo replied on 11 Apr 2009

to list all channels, type in:

/list

+683

jazzyguy replied on 12 Apr 2009

Thanks!

+22

Ayub reviewed on 09 Dec 2008

Wow. Finally got it. Was waiting for such an app. I had irssi earlier but didn't like to use terminal for chatting. Thanks a lot developer.

[Version 0.8.5.7]

xSmurf commented on 03 Feb 2007

Man I love this app, simple clean. It just works no bells and whistles, just what I want when I go on iirc. P-P-P-Please do a UB build :(

[Version 0.8.0]

Porcustal commented on 02 Feb 2007

a very nice irc app with lots of potential options that are hard to set without a techy knowledge...

beeping and noises on highlights?

Prefs panel could use lot more...

[Version 0.8.0]

-1

macusr commented on 08 Sep 2006

ABOXOFJOSH, I'm not sure what you are yelling about. I'm using a theme and have the window maximized and it remembers it, maybe your prefs got courpted so it can't save them, try deleting them and setting it again

[Version 0.8.0]

Oliver Raduner had trouble on 02 Jun 2009

Um... after I configured MacIrssi in the preferences window and restartet it, it crashed unexpected. When I started again, it threw the Crash Reporter message on the screen - but then just quick instantly again. Now this is repeating for every start of the application - not even resetting did work.

I then redownloaded and unpacked it again, but somehow it has it's preferences somewhere else than inside /~user/Library/Preferences/MacIrssi.preferences? Because it still crashes after every start.

Any clues on this? Sorry, I was not even able to send the Crash Report log due to the instant re-crash of the App :)

I am on a MacBook Pro 1st Gen with Leopard 10.5.7

[Version 0.8.6.4]

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Oliver Raduner replied on 02 Jun 2009

I found this in the OS X console log:

02.06.09 20:42:55 com.apple.launchd[78] ([0x0-0x5f15f1].MacIrssi[66669]) Exited abnormally: Bus error
02.06.09 20:43:03 [0x0-0x5f25f2].MacIrssi[66673] ** (process:66673): CRITICAL **: server_start_connect: assertion `server != NULL' failed

Matt Wright (developer) replied on 02 Sep 2009

There is also irssi config state stored in ~/.irssi/ which you will need to reset if you've managed to get it into this state. If you can reproduce the bug please head over to http://trac.sysctl.co.uk/macirssi to submit bugs.

-1

+30

Robert had trouble on 29 Dec 2008

Crashes on launch, on my iBook 900:

Thread: Unknown
Link (dyld) error:
incompatible cpu-subtype

Ironically, a major reason I choose irssi over other irc clients is because of its low cpu usage and system requirements.

[Version 0.8.5.8]

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