Hints and Tips
By Richard “GameGuru” Grant
This page contains hints and tips about mIRC and IRC. Feel free to e-mail me if you want to add to this page.
You can add colour and other formatting to your text in mIRC by pressing Ctrl+K (to add colour) Ctrl+B (to make text bold) and Ctrl+I (to make text italicised). Ctrl+R reverses the colours for the text (i.e. the background colour becomes the font colour and vice versa) and Ctrl+O removes any formatting from text.
You can copy text to the clipboard in a mIRC window by highlighting the text you want to copy (hold left mouse button and drag.) Holding the key will also copy any extra formatting that the text has (i.e. BURK codes).
If you hold while pressing when sending a line of text in mIRC, you can type lines with / at the beginning without mIRC evaluating it as a command.
You can press to complete nicknames that are present in the channel, so typing ga would change the word to GameGuru if I was in the channel, or anyone else whose name begins ga, pressing multiple times cycles through all matches. You can also use This also works for the current channel if you press after typing #
You can use to make mIRC evaluate an identifier. Try typing $me and then pressing while the text cursor is still in contact with it. This also works for variable names.
You can use to send messages to users you’ve previously sent messages to in a session. Pressing while the editbox is empty will cause mIRC to place “/msg nickname” in it, and cycle through the buffer with each subsequent pressing of .
You can lock mIRC so other users cannot use it by holding the key when you press the minimise button. mIRC will ask you for a password which will be required in order for mIRC to be able to be restored.
Pressing and N lets you cycle through all open channel windows. Pressing and Q lets you cycle through all open query windows.
You can switch between all active windows in mIRC (i.e. any non-minimised window) by pressing and . Unless the setting is changed in the Other category in mIRC options, it will cycle in the order of the windows in which they were last viewed (most recent first.)
Typing / and then will fill the editbox with the last line typed (as would pressing the up arrow key) in the editbox. If you type /! and then then the editbox will fill with the last line typed in the last window you was in.
If you put a . in front a command mIRC won’t echo it to your window, so typing /.msg will prevent mIRC echoing the message you send. This can be useful when you don’t want mIRC echoing your Q password being sent.
