On-screen notifications from IRSSI over SSH

After years of working with an IRC client inside screen on my server to which I connect using SSH, I was missing having any kind of notifications when I’m being highlighted. I don’t want to use bouncers or to disconnect/reconnect all the time. So I prefer to make a ssh tunnel from an IRSSI script to a python script I run on localhost, that sends every configured highlight to localhost. That other script calls libnotify on linux or growl on OSX to display the notification.

Source code available on my github

Contributions are opened to package and make it better.

There’s a bug I still can’t get rid of : when notifications are sent through the tunnel, SSH reports almost all the time :

setsockopt TCP_NODELAY: Invalid argument

if anyone has an idea on how to resolve that, drop me a mail !

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