I recently got back into using IRC to chat with folks on #opensolaris, and have naively been using “/WINDOW NEW” to manage the channels I was chatting on. Since the IRC client I was using kept crashing, I decided to give irssi a try. I am glad I did, and just realized what I was missing with hidden windows (which are created by default with irssi). After a few adjustments to the irssi config file, I am able to ^X between channels with ease. Niiice!