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initial checkin of a "did you know" factsheet for chatzilla
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ChatZilla: Did You Know?
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The basics...
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+ The networks listed in the *client* view on startup are clickable links.
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Instead of typing /attach <network-name>, you can just click on one of the
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links.
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+ The view tabs are color coded, green means that something has happened in that
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view since you last looked at it. Red means that someone has said something
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to you.
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+ ChatZilla will automatically highlight phrases that contain your nickname.
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+ You can add to the list of words that cause messages to be highlighted with
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the /stalk command. You can remove words from the list with the /unstalk
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command.
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+ You can quickly switch to another view using the function keys. F1 will
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switch to the first view, F2 to the second, etc.
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+ You can turn off the userlist, statusbar, and/or view tabs using the
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File->Options menu.
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+ You can see a list of commands by typing /commands.
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+ You can get help on any command by typing /help <command-name>.
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+ You can delete any view with the /delete command. Once deleted, the text from
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that view will be lost. Deleteing a channel view is not the same as leaving
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the channel. You will still be a member of the channel if you only /delete it.
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It will reappear (without the previous contents) the next time activity occurs.
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+ You can remove a channel or query view from the tab list without dropping its
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contents. The /hide command will remove the view's tab, but keep the contents.
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The next time something happens on that view, it will re-appear with the
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previous text still intact.
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+ You can recover deleted or hidden views. To recover a deleted *client* view,
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use /client. To recover a network view use the /attach command, to recover
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channel view use /join, and to recover a query view use /query.
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The cool commands...
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+ /networks will display the list of networks as a list of clickable links.
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+ /status will show your connection status. If you use /status from a channel,
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you'll get information about the network and server you are connected to,
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including connection duration, and last ping and lag (if available.) You will
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also get status on the channel you are viewing, including number of operators,
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number voiced, and topic.
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Using /status from a network view will give you information on every channel
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you are connected to.
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Using /status from the *client* view will give you information on every network
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you are connected to, as well as every channel on that network.
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+ /disconnect can be used to disconnect from a network without quitting
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ChatZilla. This can be useful if you are attached to more than one network
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but want to leave only one of them.
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The more advanced stuff...
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+ The input area can be switched to multiline mode by pressing [CTRL]+[UP].
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Press [CTRL]+[ENTER] to sent the text to the server. In multiline mode,
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the text you type not scanned for commands, so stray / characters will not
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affect your post. To return to single line mode, press [CRTL]+[DOWN].
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+ The place where messages appear can be styled to your own taste, if you
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know a little css <http://www.htmlhelp.org/reference/css/>. See the comment
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at the top of <http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/extensions/irc/xul/skin/output-default.css>
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for details.
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+ You can manually bookmark an irc channel by creating a new irc:// bookmark.
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From the "Manage bookmarks" window, create a new bookmark and enter
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"irc://moznet/chatzilla", to bookmark the #chatzilla channel, for example.
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You can also use a server name, as in "irc://irc.mcs.com/javascript".
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+ irc:// urls work from normal web pages as well. You can link to your
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irc channel from you home page. See
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<http://www.w3.org/Addressing/draft-mirashi-url-irc-01.txt> for a description
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of irc:// urls.
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+ Turning off File->Options->Enable Smileys actually turns off all of the text
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matching rules, including link detection, and bold/underline/italic. It will
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also disable the part of ChatZilla that makes it possible to break long words
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(ie, you'll end up with a horizontal scrollbar eventually.) This
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option was added back when a few bugs in the JavaScript engine caused the
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text matching rules to do Bad Things. You probably don't really want to turn
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this off.
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