AnyEven...l::Irssi(3)

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version 7.17 · 12 versions
, in opensuse-leap 16.0

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to AnyEvent::Impl::Irssi — AnyEvent adaptor for Irssi. This is the AnyEven...l::Irssi(3) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation situation, and we're gonna make it make sense. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use AnyEvent;

# this module gets loaded automatically when running under irssi

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So this module gives transparent support for AnyEvent under Irssi. You literally don't have to do anything to make Irssi scripts work with AnyEvent. It just... handles it. Slay. ✨

🚧 Limitations + implementation details 🚧

  • This backend does not support blocking waits. That means you must set a callback on any condvars, or otherwise make sure to never call recv on a condvar that hasn't been signalled yet. No blocking bestie, periodt.
  • Child exits will be handled by AnyEvent. AnyEvent will take over child handling, because Irssi only polls for children once/second and cannot handle unspecific child watchers. This should have no negative effect, as AnyEvent will emit a pidwait signal just like irssi itself would. Cute.
  • Artificial timer delays. Irssi artificially enforces timers to have at least a 10ms delay (by croaking, even). That means some applications will be limited to a rate of 100Hz (for example, Coro::AnyEvent thread scheduling). The vibe check says slow down. 🐢
  • Irssi leaks memory like hell. Yeah. 💀

Apart from that, documentation is notoriously wrong (e.g. file handles are not supported by input_add, contrary to documentation), hooking into irssi has to be done in... weird... ways, but otherwise, Irssi is surprisingly full-featured (for basically being a hack). Honestly iconic for a hack. 🫶

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

AnyEvent, Irssi.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

made with perl v5.42.0 energy, dated 2019-09-18, and yep this is the AnyEven...l::Irssi(3) page 💅💖

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