Re: [feature/rcirc-update] Reconnects don't seem to work anymore

[Philip Kaludercic]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
> Hi Philip,
>
>>> Yes, only freenode and only since today with no changes on rcirc in
>>> the meantime.  When I do
>>>
>>>     /msg nickserv help
>>>
>>> in the *chat.freenode.org* buffer, I get the response
>>>
>>>     20:42 *** 401 n No such nick
>>>
>>> and in the buffer N@chat.freenode.org there is
>>>
>>>     20:42 <tsdh> ickserv help
>>
>> This was an issue caused by the new rcirc-define-command macro. The
>> intention was to improve defun-rcirc-command by adding integrated
>> argument parsing, and in this case, the regular expression was nor
>> correctly generated, as it did not require at least one whitespace
>> between arguments. I hope the last commits have fixes those issues,
>> but I might have to rethink some more fundamental things about how
>> that macro works.
>
> I'm now on 1181c606b3 but still "/msg nickservx test" will message
> "ickservx test" to the user N on libera.chat.  I'd much prefer if that
> told me that there is no (online) user nickservx rather than messaging
> some mostly random stranger.

I can imagine that both use-cases could be of interest, so it would
probably be best to add a flag to regulate this.

>>>   2. I should look into using SASL for identificiation.
>>
>> Part of the IRCv3 improvements should also include this.
>
> Great.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo

-- 
        Philip K.