How do I get “special effects” such as bold/reverse/underline when using ircII?
The special effects that can be produced depend on the capabilities of the terminal. If your terminal supports the control sequences, you will be able to see messages highlighted/underlined/bold. The foll. control characters achieve the effects: ^B – Bold ^_ – Underline ^V – InVerse (on old ircII clients, ^b – inverse, ^v – underline, ^_ – bold) The caret (^) stands for the control key on your keyboard. Thus, ^B is interpreted as pressing the control key and the ‘B’ key together. It is quite possible that some of these control keys may have been bound already. For instance, ^B is usually bound to BACKWARD_CHARACTER. To get around the default behaviour of ^B, try /bind ^B self_insert The ^B in the line above needs to be typed in as a caret(^) followed by B (not as control-b, since this hasn’t been unbound as yet, and hitting control-b will simply move your cursor back). * Warning: Lines with special effects in them are considered annoying by most people, so be frugal in their usage.
