Re: rcirc changes

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

On 2/17/06, Ryan Yeske <rcyeske@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure I totally understand.  But what I mean by breaking
> completion is that I may see something like:
>
> <miles> hello
>
> when really your nick is snogglethorpe; I have just aliased it to
> miles.  If I then cycle through nicks to reply to you, I find that
> miles isn't in the list.

I obviously use rcirc diffently than you (maybe because I'm using it
with bitlbee) -- I have a separate buffer for each conversation, so I
never type anything like "NICK: ..." -- I just type "...".  So I never
use any sort of completion.  In this context, I just don't care about
anything except the appearance, and the simple code I added works
great.

For completion to work properly, presumably it would have to add the
abbrevs to the completion set and do the reverse mapping at some
point; is this something fundamentally hard, or is it just a matter of
coding?

> What about not showing your own nick at all?  Just a copy of the
> prompt and the text you submitted as it is?

Well I rather _want_ to show at least some short indicator for myself,
as it makes logs easier to read (anyway, how would you do that?).

Thanks,

-Miles
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