wiki/pages/weechat.md

@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ you had kind of bad luck.
 You now can register your username using your tilde email address as
 described here: [intro to nicks](nicks.html)
 
+## Setting login credentials
+
 After you have done that, you can set the username and password in the
 weechat settings to automatically log in and authenticate
 
@@ -48,5 +50,23 @@ run **weechat** again and then connect with
 
     /connect tilde
 
+## What now
+
 Now you can join any channel, e.g. **#helpdesk**
 
+You can set various parameters, e.g. to set your real name displayed
+in /whois you can use
+
+    /set irc.server.tilde.realname "My real name"
+
+You can join multiple channels with /j or start private conversatins
+with /msg and navigate between the different windows with Control-N
+and Control-P
+
+To automatically connect to the tilde server on startup use:
+
+    /set irc.server.tilde.autoconnect on
+
+For more information about the program, see the
+[manual](https://weechat.org/files/doc/stable/weechat_user.en.html)
+