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1-10) Okay..can you tell me a little more about general etiquette
(netiquette) over IRC? What do terms like "re", "brb", etc. mean?
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* Lingo: On IRC, communication speed often matters when talking to
others, and as a result, many "shorthands" have been developed by
IRCers to convey the most amount of information in the smallest
amount of keystrokes. Here are some common shorthands:
"re" - repeat hi, used when you have left a channel and rejoin
it
"brb" - be right back!
"bbl" - be back later
"bbiaf" - be back in a few minutes
"ttyl" - talk to you later
"rtfm" - read the f* manual
"rtrfc"- read the f* RFC
"oic" - Oh, I see!
"afaik"- As far as I know
"imho" - In my humble opinion
"rotfl"- rolling on the floor with laughter
"focl" - falling off the chair laughing
"nfi" - no f* idea
"ayfq" - ask your f* question
"wtf" - who/what the f*?
"u" - you "y" - why
"2" - to "b" - be
"r" - are "c" - see
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1-13) How do I "scrollback" in ircII? Are there any special key bindings
available?
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Besides this, ircII provides for several in built default key
bindings (emacs style) which are very useful:
^P recalls previous command line
^N recalls next command line
^F moves forward one character
^B moves backward one character
^A moves the cursor to the beginning of the line
^E moves the cursor to the end of the line
^D deletes the character under the cursor
^K kills from the cursor to the end
^Y reinserts the last stretch of killed text
^U clears the whole line
^L redraws the screen
The caret (^) stands for the control key on your keyboard. Thus, ^P
is interpreted as pressing the control key and the 'P' key together.
On a related note, you may also try the help pages on the HISTORY
command and the ! metacharacter. (/help history and /help !)
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1-14) How do I make the output of a command in ircII pause after each
screenful? How do I "cancel" further output from a command?
To make your output pause in screenfuls, use the following command:
/set hold_mode on
To cancel further output from a command (for instance if you
accidentally did a /names when you hadn't intended to) use
/flush
* Warning: /flush flushes all output sent to the client so far from
the server. This means that you may end up losing some public/private
messages too.
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Source (4.1.1996):
http://math-www.uio.no/faq/irc/undernet-faq/part1.html and there:
From: mandar@wildstar.net (Mandar M. Mirashi)
Newsgroups: alt.irc.undernet,alt.irc.questions,alt.irc,alt.irc.ircii,alt.answers,news.answers
Subject: IRC Undernet Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) (Part 1 of 2)
Date: 26 Aug 1996 23:46:17 -0000
Archive-name: irc/undernet-faq/part1
Undernet IRC FAQ [Part I] (updated 1st June 1996) - Weekly Repost
Version 1 By Paul Grant (Grant)
Version 2-3 - written by Mandar Mirashi (Mmmm)
mmmirash@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu
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