Download messages_bottom.pl

On a freshly started Irssi, all message text will start floating from
the top of page; just like when you open a new terminal on X11 or
‘clear’ your screen on the console.

I find this highly distracting, since whenever you are looking at a
window, you need to make a decision as to where exactly the text ends.

A much better approach is to fixate the viewpoint on the bottom line, as
will automatically happen with time, anyway.

This script will make it happen immediately, much improving my IRC
morning. Simply by printing a number of empty lines, the “cursor” will
be moved to the very end of screen and new messages will start appearing
at the bottom right away.

A yet better (and still missing) script would be one to reload the IRC
log files when you start Irssi. mIRC already has a builtin feature to do
this.

(There actually is a script to do the latter, at least for private
messages, on the official scripts archive. But it sucks so much that I
daren’t recommend it.)