Re: rcirc multiline nick adding

[bkhl@elektrubadur.se (Björn Lindström)]

Nic James Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>:

> Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Nic James Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk> writes:
>>> +  ;; Is there a nick at the start of the multiline buffer? if so add it to all the lines
>>> +  (goto-char (point-min))
>>> +  (if (looking-at "^[^ :]+: ")
>>> +      (let ((nick (match-string 0)))
>>> +        (while (re-search-forward "\n" nil t)
>>> +          (replace-match (concat "\n" nick)))))
>>
>> This seems dangerous; what if it's not a nick?  It seems quite likely to
>> have annoying results...
>
> Well... with me it always is a nick. And it's vital that it be put
> in.
>
> Sending multilines through bitlebee without it is tricky.
>
> Not sure there's another way to tell it if is a nick or not which is
> partly why I pasted it here; maybe someone will have an idea.

How about instead of doing this automagically, make this a text
editing command for multiline mode?

I.e. pressing C-c something inserts a nick followed by colon on each line.