Save all buffers content in weechat

Question

How can i save all what has been written in a private buffer? Also is there a possibility to re open the same layout(including buffers) after exit? /set weechat.look.save_config_on_exit all

Doesn't seem to do what it's suggesting.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Weechat already logs buffer content to file by default. See the logger plugin section in the docs.

logger.file.auto_log: automatically save content of buffers to files (unless a buffer disables log) [ default: on ]

logger.file.path: path of WeeChat log files

Logs are found at ~/.weechat/logs/ by default, one file per buffer.

Answer 2

Update WeeChat 4.0.4 (2023)

( Aug 22, 2023 ) Version 4.0. 4 is available!

Log path:

 ~/.local/share/weechat/logs

Answer 3

Another "workaroud"-answer to the question "how to get information from the previous logs" from within WeeChat is:
install the grep.py plugin (/script install grep.py).

1) With this plugin you can list the logs (filenames in ~/.weechat/logs) and their size with:
/logs
(look at /help logs after installing "grep.py")

2) And you can /grep these logfile (or the current opened buffers if you like) with e.g.:
/grep log *perl* CSV
(this looks in all logfile with perl: #perl, #perl6, #perl.de, ... for the string "CSV" and will list the occurrances)

see /help grep (after install of grep.py) - there are many options

(also: see this blog for information about logging https://blog.jeaye.com/2016/10/31/weechat-logs/)