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I also run a similar setup and am trying out mosh now. I agree re: the lag in irssi. Additionally, if I start typing into irssi and then rapidly delete the text, I can delete the channel name temporarily:

    [#startups] I was thiknin^H^H^H^H^H^H
    [#start

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Yeah, this is due to their clever predictive local echo not being that clever all the time. When the client sees that sending ^H actually results in character disappearing, it imitates that behaviour locally for next ^H:s making you experience less lag. Most of the time it works well but there's these edge cases with funny results.

Well, my simple solution would be to delete the channel name from the prompt because it does not serve me any purpose. Too bad I don't actually know how to do this in irssi, I already looked for an option.

You can use "/statusbar prompt disable" (and "/save" to make it persistent).

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