The story of how I find cool stuff, inevitably break said cool stuff, and (hopefully) end up fixing whatever I did

It annoyed the piss out of me that irssi doesn’t have a list of nicks in a given irc room.  Granted you can just /who but this just seemed like too much work given that programs such as weechat (which I have since swtiched to) have a nicklist right out of the box.  If, for whatever reason, you decide that weechat just isnt for you and you wish to have a nicklist in your irssi, then follow these simple steps.

grab the nicklist script from irssi.org

then move said script into your irssi scripts folder

then fire up irssi and issue these two commands:

Presto!  now you have a nicklist inside of irssi.  Beware of this script however, it does not play well with certain terminal,mrxvt for instance.  There are ways to autoload scripts in irssi but I honestly didn’t use it long enough to be moved to figure it out.  I suggest you check out weechat.