I'm new to irssi and I couldn't figure out one feature (or task).
I know I can use Page+Up/Down to scroll back and forth on the chat history. I also know I can use /lastlog to dump the whole chat history to console.
However, I don't know how to dump the chat history and grep certain pattern. For example, if I want to review conversation with someone named, user-a. My intuitive way is "grep user-a " so it will output all history in that window contain user-a.
Is there such a feature in irssi or irc in general?
Best Answer
There is no such feature in "IRC in general"; IRC is just a protocol for exchanging messages and does not have logging of any kind. So all that depends on the specific client.
In irssi, though, you can do
/lastlog user-a
to search for that word.If you want regexp search, there's
/last -regexp
too.