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+The status bar shows the status of all 7 screens. Each one will appear
+as one of:
+
+- Grey dot (.): Screen not in use (never opened, or has been closed).
+
+- Grey number: Screen has no activity since you last looked at it.
+
+- Green number: Screen has activity that you haven't seen yet.
+
+- Red number: Screen has activity that's intended for you: a private
+  message, or your nick has been mentioned in a channel (AKA you've
+  been highlighted).
+
+Note: the colors listed above can be changed in the Config tool or via
+the /color command.
+
+When a number is displayed, you can press Start and that number to
+switch to that screen. Trying to switch to an unused screen won't
+do anything.
+
+When switching screens with Start+A, FujiNetChat goes to the
+right-most (highest numbered) highlighted screen (red). If there
+are no highlighted screens, it goes to the right-most active screen
+(green). If there are no screens with activity, it doesn't change
+screens.
+
+Note that the current screen (the one you're looking at) will never be
+red or green.
+
+This works about like irssi's Meta-A key, except that irssi actually
+keeps track of when each of its windows became active or highlighted,
+and goes to the oldest one first. FujiNetChat just starts at the last
+screen and works its way down.