Little Known Tricks

Not everything is documented completely within irssi, one such thing is the "startup" file. It is useful to autoload modules (such as fish which I use in this example):

$ cat ~/.irssi/startup
LOAD fish
ECHO this is an example of some simple irssi stuff
SCRIPT LOAD autoload

This allows you to to load the fish module, echo a line into the irssi status window and then autoload a script. Its a very useful file and as far as I know, undocumented.