<p>Vision is an IRC client originally developed for the BeOS. More documentation and a bug tracker are available at the <ahref="https://github.com/HaikuArchives/Vision/">Vision homepage</a>.</p>
<divclass="box-info">You can find help from other Haiku users and developers on <ahref="https://www.haiku-os.org/community/irc">Haiku channels</a> in various languages.<br/>
The most frequented channel is the English speaking #haiku at irc.freenode.net.</div>
<p>Some advice, especially if you're new to IRC:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Search the web for "IRC etiquette" to learn about the do's and don'ts of chatting. Without much searching, I found <ahref="https://workaround.org/getting-help-on-irc/">Getting help on IRC</a> by Christoph Haas to be quite helpful.</p></li>
<li><p>By registering your nickname you make sure nobody can pull any shenanigans and you gain the trust of the residents. See <ahref="http://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration">Freenode's FAQ</a> on that matter.</p></li>
<li><p>Set up a sound in Haiku's Sounds preferences to be notified if someone mentions your nickname. People don't always watch their IRC client screen. Putting the nickname of the person you're talking to at the beginning of what you're about to post increases your chance to be noticed. Similar to the Terminal, Vision supports tab-completion for nicknames, i.e. if you enter the starting letters of a nickname and press the tab key, Vision completes it with the first name that matches.</p></li>
<tr><td><spanclass="key">TAB</span></td><tdstyle="width:15px;"></td><td>Tab-completion like in Terminal: After entering a few letters of a nickname, hitting <spanclass="key">TAB</span> completes to the first matching nickname.</td></tr>
<tr><td><spanclass="key">↑</span> / <spanclass="key">↓</span></td><tdstyle="width:15px;"></td><td>When the input control has focus, this will cycle through your recently entered text.</td></tr>
<tr><td><spanclass="key">ALT</span><spanclass="key">↑</span> / <spanclass="key">↓</span></td><td></td><td>Activates the window that appears above / below the currently active (selected) one in the "Window list"</td></tr>
<tr><tdclass="onelinetop"><spanclass="key">SHIFT</span><spanclass="key">ALT</span><spanclass="key">↑</span> / <spanclass="key">↓</span></td><td></td><td>Similar to <spanclass="key">ALT</span><spanclass="key">↑</span> / <spanclass="key">↓</span>, but with a twist. Instead of activating the window immedietly above / below the current one, it looks ahead. If there are any windows with higher status bits then the current window, it jumps to those. It jumps to the highest found status bit first.<br/>
To understand this, you must know that Vision color codes windows in the list with different "status bits" depending on how its contents have changed since it last had focus:
<ul>
<li><b><spanstyle="color:black">black</span></b> - no new text</li>
<li><b><spanstyle="color:silver">gray</span></b> - new text, but nothing exciting (joins, parts, etc.)</li>
<li><b><spanstyle="color:green">green</span></b> - someone has said something</li>
<li><b><spanstyle="color:red">red</span></b> - someone has said something, and mentioned your nickname</li>
</ul>
Vision treats these with sequential priority. When you press <spanclass="key">SHIFT</span><spanclass="key">ALT</span><spanclass="key">↑</span> / <spanclass="key">↓</span>, Vision will first jump to a red window above / below the current one if it sees one. If it doesn't see a red one, it will jump to a green one, and so on.</td></tr>
Opens www.acronymfinder.com with your current html handler. (Note: If the file-handler is not a browser, it opens the application specified in FileTypes.)</p></li>
Opens www.google.com with your current html handler. (Note: If the file-handler is not a browser, it opens the application specified in FileTypes.)</p></li>
Executes the given <app>. If more than one application is provided, they will be executed in a pipe.<br/>
e.g. <spanclass="menu">/PEXEC Terminal | StyledEdit</span> opens a new Terminal, and afterwards StyledEdit<br/>
or <spanclass="menu">/PEXEC ls -la ~/Downloads/</span> displays the contents of your ~/Downloads/ directory in the current window (Attention!)</p></li>
Opens www.m-w.com (Merriam Webster) with your current html handler. (Note: If the handler is not a browser, it opens the application specified in FileTypes.)</p></li>
