Commands to configure Weechat IRC client

Access servers and channels

# List configured servers in Weechat
/server list

# Connect a server
/connect <server name>

# Join and quite a channel
/join #channel
/part [quit message]

# close a server
/close

# Disconnect a server
/disconnect

# Delete a server and all it's settings permanently
/server del <server name>

Add and configure an IRC server

I have network specific commands below for easy copy and paste.

Libera

If you do not already have a registered nick/username with libera.chat then first use their web based chat client to register one. I found it hard to connect to the server on Weechat using SSL without a user name and password.

Libera web chat client

Once you have a registered nick name follow the commands below to configure Weechat.

Configuring SASL for WeeChat

# Add server

/server add libera irc.libera.chat/6697 -ssl

# Provide your login details
/set irc.server.libera.sasl_mechanism plain
/set irc.server.libera.sasl_username <nickname>
/set irc.server.libera.sasl_password <password>
/save

# Set nick etc
/set irc.server.libera.nicks "mynick,mynick2,mynick3,mynick4,mynick5"
/set irc.server.libera.username "My user name"
/set irc.server.libera.realname "My real name"

DALnet

# Add server
/server add dalnet irc.dal.net/6697 -ssl

# Configure user information
/set irc.server.dalnet.nicks "mynick,mynick2,mynick3,mynick4,mynick5"
/set irc.server.dalnet.username "My user name"
/set irc.server.dalnet.realname "My real name"

/set irc.server.dalnet.command "/msg NickServ@services.dal.net IDENTIFY <password>"

# Autoconnect upon opening weechat
/set irc.server.dalnet.autoconnect on

# Invalid SSL error/warning
/set irc.server.example.ssl_verify off

Colors

/set env TERM screen-256color
/upgrade

Logging

# Log only user chat in channel or in private window
/set logger.level.irc 1

# Log chats in seprate folders per network
/set logger.mask.irc "irc/$server/$channel.weechatlog"

Mouse

/set weechat.look.mouse on
/mouse enable

Spelling

/set spell.check.default_dict "en"
Alt + s

Buffer nesting

By default, server buffers are merged with WeeChat core buffer. To switch between the core buffer and server buffers, you can use Ctrl+x.

It is possible to disable auto merge of server buffers to have independent server buffers:

/set irc.look.server_buffer independent

Filters

/set irc.look.smart_filter on
/filter add irc_smart * irc_smart_filter *

/filter add joinquit * irc_join,irc_part,irc_quit *

/filter add quit * irc_quit *

To toggle Alt + =

Click on Links

/window bare
or
Alt + l

then ctrl + click