Hexchat Tips
Hexchat is a popular IRC client for Windows. For more information see https://hexchat.github.io Bitlbee indicates user online status via +v and -v modes. Almost all IRC clients will print this mode change to the channel.
Scripts
Hexchat supports Perl, Python and Lua scripts for customization.
Preventing Hexchat from printing "Bitlbee gives channel half-operator status to $USER"
If you want Hexchat to not print these incessant changes, load the Perl script below in Hexchat. You will probably need the correct version of Perl provided by Hexchat - https://hexchat.github.io/downloads.html Tested with HexChat 2.12.1 and Hexchat provided Perl 5.20.0
# Name: ignore_chan_voices.pl # Version: 002 # Author: LifeIsPain < idontlikespam (at) orvp [dot] net > # Date: 2010-04-29 # Description: Ignore voices that are given and removed in specified channels. # Version History # 001 2010-02-10 Initial Version for someone in #xchat # 002 2010-04-29 Also ignore raw modes if only item # 003 2016-05-23 Update for Hexchat, thanks to LifeIsPain < idontlikespam (at) orvp [dot] net > # Original at https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat-addons/blob/master/perl/ignore_chan_voices/ignore_chan_voices.pl use strict; use warnings; use HexChat qw (:all); register('Ignore Chan Voices', '002', 'Ignore voice and devoice on specified channels'); for ('Channel Voice', 'Channel DeVoice') { hook_print($_, \&ignore_voice); } hook_print('Raw Modes', \&ignore_raw_voice); # specified the channels you wish to ignore in here, same format, lower case channels my %ignore_list = ( '>alk' => 1, '&steam' => 1, ); sub ignore_voice { my $chan = lc get_info('channel'); return EAT_HEXCHAT if (defined $ignore_list{$chan}); return EAT_NONE; } sub ignore_raw_voice { my $chan = get_info('channel'); return EAT_HEXCHAT if (defined $ignore_list{lc $chan} && $_[0][1] =~ m/^$chan [-+]v /i); return EAT_NONE; }This is especially nice for the Steam channel (&steam) as it just shows you contact's online/offline status and they game they are playing.