= IRC Helper =

== About ==
IRC Helper is a plugin to handle the rough edges of the IRC protocol and make it behave like the other protocols in libpurple. Currently, the two major features are:
 1. Transparent authentication with a variety of services.
 1. Suppression of various useless messages.

It also has some subtle features, such as:
 1. Displaying Freenode !ChanServ join notices in the chat window instead of as an IM from !ChanServ
 1. Suppression of IRC topics that haven't changed

This plugin was formerly located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim-irchelper before being merged into the [PluginPack Purple Plugin Pack] in version 1.0.

== Using IRC Helper ==
The following explains configuring IRC Helper to automatically identify to services:
  1.  Edit your IRC account (Accounts->Manage Accounts, select your IRC account, click Modify).
  1.  On the '''Basic''' tab, make sure the '''Password''' field is '''''blank'''''.  This field is for the ''server'' password, which very few public servers use.
  1.  On the '''Advanced''' tab:
     1.  Fill in the '''Auth Name''' field with your registered account name (or try leaving it blank).
     1.  Fill in the '''Nick password''' field with the password you send to the services bot.

The '''Disconnect ghosts (Duplicate nicknames)''' option on the Advanced tab allows you to decide if you want IRC Helper to automatically terminate an existing occurrance of your nickname.  This will disconnect ''only'' your configured nickname, not any additional duplicates, and it will ''not'' change your nickname to the one configured after disconnecting the ghost.

Most IRC Helper features activate once you have configured identification to services.  The suppression of messages and channel topics that haven't changed cannot be disabled.

[[PluginInfo(rlaager,1.0,irchelper,Any,None)]]

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