blog: WeeChat: ignoring with /filter

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+title: "WeeChat: ignoring with /filter"
+category: [english]
+tags: [english, IRC, WeeChat]
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+*Everyone knows the `/ignore` command, but there is also `/filter` which
+I feel is superiour.`*
+
+First, how do they differ?
+* Ignore removes all lines from the person you are ignoring permanently and
+  they aren't logged or anything.
+* Filter only hides the messages from the person and is very customizable,
+  but I am only describing my ignoring here. They are still logged and
+  by toggling filters they become visible.
+
+And how do you use it? 
+* `/filter add FILTERNAME * nick_*NICKHERE* *`
+    * FILTERNAME is the name how you recognize the filter, I usually put
+      the nick there.
+    * The first `*` is buffer where the filter is used in and means simply
+      "all buffers".
+    * `nick_*NICKHERE* means that you want to filter lines from
+      `*NICKHERE*`, the asterisks are important as it makes sure that the
+      user doesn't change their nick to `NICKHERE_` who again wouldn't be
+      filtered.
+    * And the last `*`, what do you want to filter from that nick?
+      Everything.
+
+But doesn't this defeat the whole point of ignoring? That depends on you
+and do you think you will ever need the ignored content.
+
+One good example where you might want to have the content is when you are
+channel op and someone on your ignore list joins the channel and someone
+else alerts ops.
+
+With ignore you see nothing, with filter you just toggle your filters and
+see that someone who you had filtered joined on the channel and did
+something against the channel rules and you can easily take action.