NOTE: Added 2021-02-24 update section
Buflist
Not too long ago... ok, I guess about three and a half years ago now... WeeChat got one of its greatest features incorporated into the main code -- the buflist. Prior to this, it was in the form of a script.
With this change, buflist became more powerful and versatile as well.
Fancyness
For a while now I've had a fancy bit of logic in my buflist to show when a network is disconnected. When the topic of having away and part status in the buflist came up while chatting, I did some refactoring to add those as well:
/set buflist.format.buffer "${format_number}${indent}${format_nick_prefix}${color_hotlist}${if:(${buffer.full_name} =~ ^irc)?${if:(${irc_server.away_time} > 0)?${color:yellow}>}${if:(${irc_channel.part} == 1)?${color:magenta}_}${if:(${irc_server.is_connected} == 0)?${color:*magenta}*}}${if:${type}==private?↪}${name}"
## A Breakdown
/set buflist.format.buffer
"
${format_number} ## buflist.format.number
${indent} ## buflist.format.indent
${format_nick_prefix} ## buflist.format.nick_prefix
${color_hotlist}
${if:(${buffer.full_name} =~ ^irc)? ## Checks that buffer is from irc plugin
${if:(${irc_server.away_time} > 0)? ## Checks if an away time is set
${color:yellow}> ## Adds color and indicator
}
${if:(${irc_channel.part} == 1)? ## Checks part status
${color:magenta}_ ## Adds color and indicator
}
${if:(${irc_server.is_connected} == 0)? ## Checks connect status
${color:*magenta}* ## Adds color and indicator
}
}
${if:${type}==private? ## Checks if privmsg
↪ ## Adds indicator
}
${name} ## buflist.format.name
"
Explanation
With this setting, an /away irc buffer gets colored yellow and marked with a >; a /part-ed chan gets colored magenta and marked with a _; and a disconnected irc buffer gets bold magenta and marked with a *.
The order of the if test also means that away < parted < disconnected in regards to color.
Toning Down
As I use screen_away.py script, and as this buflist.format.buffer overrides hostlist msg colorings, I ended up using this minor tweak to only apply the away to the server buffers (which I have separated).
/set buflist.format.buffer "${format_number}${indent}${format_nick_prefix}${color_hotlist}${if:(${buffer.full_name} =~ ^irc)?${if:(${irc_server.away_time} > 0 && ${buffer.name} =~ ^server)?${color:yellow}>}${if:(${irc_channel.part} == 1)?${color:magenta}_}${if:(${irc_server.is_connected} == 0)?${color:*magenta}*}}${if:${type}==private?↪}${name}"
Update 2021-02-24: Per buffer filter status
I have added a bit to check if the /filter's have been toggled off for individual windows (Alt+-) using ${if:(${irc_channel.filter} == 0)?${color:red}⨯${color_hotlist}}.
The full setting I use is now:
/set buflist.format.buffer "${format_number}${indent}${if:(${buffer.filter} == 0)?${color:magenta}⨯ }${format_nick_prefix}${color_hotlist}${if:(${buffer.full_name} =~ ^irc)?${if:(${irc_server.away_time} > 0 && ${buffer.name} =~ ^server)?${color:yellow}>}${if:(${irc_channel.part} == 1)?${color:magenta}▒}${if:(${irc_server.is_connected} == 0)?${color:*magenta}█}}${if:${type}==private?↪}${name}"
Other Settings
I'll go ahead and include my other relevant seeming settings for my buflist setup here as well.
## copypasta'ed out of /fset
buflist.format.buffer string "${format_number}${indent}${format_nick_prefix}${color_hotlist}${if:(${buffer.full_name} =~ ^irc)?${if:(${irc_server.away_time} > 0)?${color:yellow}>}${if:(${irc_channel.part} == 1)?${color:magenta}_}${if:(${irc_server.is_connected} == 0)?${color:*magenta}*}}${if:${type}==private?↪}${name}"
buflist.format.buffer_current string "${color:red,17}${format_buffer}"
buflist.format.hotlist_highlight string "${color:red}"
buflist.format.hotlist_low string "${color:white}"
buflist.format.hotlist_message string "${color:blue}"
buflist.format.hotlist_none string "${color:247}${if:${type}==server?${color:240}}"
buflist.format.hotlist_private string "${color:red}"
buflist.format.indent string "${color:240}${if:${buffer.next_buffer.local_variables.type}=~^(channel|private)$?├ :└─}"
buflist.format.number string "${color:240}${number}${if:${number_displayed}?.: }"
buflist.look.nick_prefix boolean on
buflist.look.nick_prefix_empty boolean off
The buflist.format.indent is one of the more fancy options, as I like the extra readability. It should be noted that I have my server buffers split individual, and my buffers hierarchically sorted under each server. While I used to do this manually, I now use the autosort.py script with some fancy logic to deal with it for me (and disabled mouse buffer rearrangement to reduce hair pulling).
Also worth noting is that I disable the hotlist_low priority msgs from my hotlist/buflist, so I never see it... It mostly just covers content that I would smartfilter anyway.