07 january 2020
tilde.town's chat local IRC is nice enough, but the weechat client is a little cramped and awkward if you're used to a big GUI.
After some Whately-like study of the WeeChat User's Guide and blogs, I have these commands:
/bar hide buflist
/bar hide nicklist
/bar hide title
/set weechat.look.buffer_time_format %H:%M
/set weechat.look.prefix_align_max 12
/bar set input items [input_prompt]+(away),[input_search],[input_paste],input_text
/bar set status items [buffer_last_number],[buffer_plugin],buffer_number+:+buffer_name+(buffer_modes)+{buffer_nicklist_count}+buffer_zoom+buffer_filter,scroll,[lag],[hotlist],completion
/save
/layout store
I haven't found an equivalent of Limechat's "set marker" and "jump to marker" for catching up when away, so I just hit sh-pgup and then new text accumulates below it, and when I come back I can sh-pgdn to catch up.
I would like to move the buffer list into a horizontal display at the top of the screen, rather than vertical on the side, but I haven't figured that out yet, so I just hide it, and scroll over with opt-right when I need to see server command results.
If I ever need to see nicklist, I can just /bar show nicklist, but I rarely look at that even in Limechat where it's easy.