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layout: post
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comments: true
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title: "WeeChat: ignoring with /filter"
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category: [english]
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tags: [english, IRC, WeeChat]
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- /filter.html
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- /weechat-filter.html
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- /english/2015/05/31/weechat-filter.html
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_Everyone knows the `/ignore` command, but there is also `/filter` which
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I feel is superiour._
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First, how do they differ?
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- Ignore removes all lines from the person you are ignoring permanently and
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they aren't logged or anything.
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- Filter only hides the messages from the person and is very customizable,
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but I am only describing my ignoring here. They are still logged and
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by toggling filters they become visible.
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And how do you use it?
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- `/filter add FILTERNAME * nick_*NICKHERE* *`
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- FILTERNAME is the name how you recognize the filter, I usually put
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the nick there.
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- The first `*` is buffer where the filter is used in and means simply
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"all buffers".
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- `nick_*NICKHERE*` means that you want to filter lines from
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`*NICKHERE*`, the asterisks are important as it makes sure that the
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user doesn't change their nick to `NICKHERE_` who again wouldn't be
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filtered.
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- And the last `*`, what do you want to filter from that nick?
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Everything.
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But doesn't this defeat the whole point of ignoring? That depends on you
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and do you think you will ever need the ignored content.
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One good example where you might want to have the content is when you are
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channel op and someone on your ignore list joins the channel and someone
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else alerts ops.
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With ignore you see nothing, with filter you just toggle your filters and
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see that someone who you had filtered joined on the channel and did
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something against the channel rules and you can easily take action.
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Further reading, check `/help filter`, you will enjoy at least
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the smart filter, `/filter add irc_smart * irc_smart_filter *` (hides
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joins/quits/parts/etc. unless the person has talked in X minutes configured
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in `/help irc.look.smart_filter_delay`).
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