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How to list windows in irssi? I'm looking for the equivalent of :ls in vim (which lists the buffers).

For example, if I want to switch to a specific window (channel that I've joined), I have to search for it with ctrl-n and ctrl-p, sometimes switching through ~10 windows in the process. It would be preferable to list the windows with their titles and indeces, so that I could switch simply with alt-[index].

Dominykas Mostauskis
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/win list

The command /win list yields something like this:

20:56 Ref  Name                 Active item     Server          Level
20:56 1    (status)                             Freenode        ALL
20:56 2                         #dailyminutes   DM              
20:56 3                         #lhspodcast     Freenode
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Serge Stroobandt
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On #irssi @freenode, user named 'vague' gave an alias that prints the index and window's name:

/alias listwinanditems script exec print join" ",map{"\cD4/".$$_->{refnum}.":(\cD3/".((join"\cD6/,\cD3/",map$$_->{name},$$_->items)||$$_->get_active_name)."\cD4/)"}sort{$$a->{refnum}<=>$$b->{refnum}}Irssi::windows

He referred to it as Nei's alias.

I gave this alias the shorter name ls. So the usage is to switch to first window (alt-1) and enter /ls.

Dominykas Mostauskis
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Nei, whose alias is in the other answer, suggested using iko_switcher. It requires uberprompt. Instructions on how to load and autoload scripts can be found here.

iko_switcher uses an interactive search dialog in the bottom bar that let's you do something similar to fuzzy searching (but it's called flex mode), and has a host of other interesting features. Its biggest advantage over Nei's alias in the other answer is that it doesn't polute the chat area.

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