XChat User Commands How-To

by Southern_Gentleman — last modified Mar 24, 2008 12:00 AM

— filed under: Post-Install Solutions

After a period of time of helping do support in the #fedora channel, i realized, i was constantly pointing to the same places again and again. The purpose of this post to show others how to make their own user commands. Also included is a link to a customized commands.conf pointing to the posts on the Fedora Unity sites.

Applicable to Fedora Versions

Requirements

Xchat must be installed. If not, execute: su -c 'yum install xchat'

Doing the Work

Basic description of what will be done and what is expected.

Open Xchat , to do so select Applications>Internet>IRC.

In Xchat click Settings:

Click Advanced:

Click User Commands (which will open another windows as shown):

Now we want to create a short pointing to a webpage as an Example we will use the Fedora Core Installation Guide
Click Add New and paste your cursor inside that box with *NEW* with your mouse as shown
Remove the *NEW* and type the shortcut name we want to use (for this howto we will use 'fcig')

Move to the Edit Me box
type "me points %2 to http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/install-guide/f8/en/"
which means /me =(action command in irc)/points=(verb)/%2 =(nick you want to see this) to /url of the page
Click Save
Repeat steps as nesassary to set up all the links you want (or download this command.conf which has Fedora Unity posts all ready included Download and copy the command.conf to your ~/home/user/.xchat2 folder WARNING: By Copying it will replace your old commands.conf!