**`/n`** or **`/nick`** changes your nickname  
`/n SparTacus`

**`/j`** or **`/join`** enters a chatroom  
`/j #music`

**`/p`** or **`/part`** leaves the chatroom

**`/t`** or **`/topic`** changes the channel topic  
`/t electro swing`

**`/me`**, the single mandatory feature anywhere  
`/me regrets adding this`

**`/m`** or **`/msg`** sends a private message  
`/msg SparTacus stop stealing my nick`

**`/q`** or **`/quit`** disconnects your client

# info

**`/help`** displays these help pages

**`/na`** or **`/names`** shows a list of people in the channel

**`/st`** or **`/status`** shows info about online users

**`/cmap`** shows a list of colour codes

# control

**`/r`** or **`/redraw`** redraws the screen to fix corruption, use this if things are glitchy after resizing the window

**`/by`** and **`/bn`** turns on/off audible alerts when someone mentions your name

**`/sw`** and **`/sh`** sets the terminal width/height in case the detection fails  
`/sw 80`  
`/sh 24`

**`/ss`** sets the PgUp/PgDn scroll amount

| | |
|-|-|
| `/sh 0`   | entire screen
| `/sh 10`  | 10 lines
| `/sh 50%` | half the screen

# navigation

**`/a`** jumps to the oldest unread message across all your channels

**`/3`** jumps to your 3rd window

**`/u`**, **`/up`**, **`/d`**, **`/down`** are PageUp/PageDown for clients where the PgUp/PgDn buttons are busted

**`/l`** or **`/latest`** scrolls to the bottom of the chat window

**`/g`** or **`/goto`** jumps to a point in the past

| | |
|-|-|
| `/g 19:47`            | jump to time
| `/g 2018-01-21`       | jump to date
| `/g 2018-01-21 19:47` | jump to datetime
| `/g 3172`             | jump to message
| `/g 34%`              | jump to offset

# admin commands

**`/auth`** promotes you to administrator  
`/auth hunter2`

**`/fill`** floods the channel with messages  
`/fill 30 desu`

**`/sd`** shuts down the server

**`/mem`** dumps server memory to file

**`/repl`** drops server into a shell

**`/gc`** forces a garbage collection