How to configure triggers for specific users in IRSSI

Question

I'm not quite understanding the few examples for the irssi trigger.pl script, who's docs can be found here, on my Ubuntu machine (If that matters for irssi).

I'm trying to: When a specific user foo joins a specific channel #channel , say 2 things in separate chat messages.

(Such as foo in message 1, and bar in message 2 as if I hit the enter key if I were typing it)

What I have so far:

/trigger add -name "channel_join_chat" -publics -channels "#channel" -joins "foo" -command "Foo" -command "bar"

And I'm not sure how to specify a specific user, as 'foo' is an unknown option to irssi.

Answer 1

I believe this is what you want:

/TRIGGER ADD -name "channel_join_chat" -joins -channels "#channel" -masks foo!*@* -command "Foo" -command "bar"

-publics should be when someone sends a PRIVMSG to a channel, so you want -joins to replace that for triggering on a JOIN (NOTE: it doesn't take a parameter which is why you get Unknown option: foo).

-masks is used to match users and wants a nick!ident@host mask, so to match the nick only, the mask would be foo!*@*.