63621 - [RFE] Shortcut to reply to the last IRC message

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications Graveyard :: ChatZilla, enhancement)

Description

[Christoph Studer]

There should be a shortcut (for example ctrl+l) to automatically inserts the
name of the person who wrote the last IRC message
  -addressed to you
or
  -that was unaddressed
plus ": " (or something like that) into the msg-textfield.

Comment 1

[Keyser Sose]

Changed Summary to include RFE. Maybe it should be tab like in most IRC clients.
Anyway marking NEW.

Comment 2

[Christoph Studer]

tab is already used for auto-complete feature of chatzilla ("chs" [tab] ->
"chstuder: "). Maybe something like shift+tab.

Comment 3

[timeless]

When the input field is blank, tab autocomplete gives very floody output. 
changing the handler to check for an empty input field would be acceptable.

Comment 4

[Robert Ginda]

If you tab twice within a half second, you get a list of all the possible
completions.  If you do this with the input field blank, you'll see everyone on
the channel (I assume this is what timeless meant by "very floody output".)

I could change it so that if you tab with an empty input field, it completes the
last nick to say something in your /stalk list.

Comment 5

[Samuel Sieb]

I'll take it.

Comment 6

[Samuel Sieb]

Attachment: patch

Comment 7

[Samuel Sieb]

The patch changes the action for a tab with no text to insert the last nick to
say a stalk trigger.

Comment 8

[Robert Ginda]

hey, that's a pretty neat hack.

Comment 9

[Robert Ginda]

This'll go into 0.8.5

Comment 10

[Robert Ginda]

I did a big refactor on the tab complete code, and rolled up a similar fix for
this bug along with it.

This version will make [tab] on an empty line work as follows...
from a channel view...
    if someone has triggered a /stalk match, "nickName: "
    if someone has sent you a message "/msg nickName "
    otherwise, nothing.
from a query view...    "/msg nickName"
from the client view... "/help "
from a network view...  nothing.

Tab completion now works when the word being completed is in the middle of the
line too.  This took alot longer than I expected ;)

I'll attach a patch here, it's already checked into the branch.

Comment 11

[Robert Ginda]

Attachment: more patch

Comment 12

[Robert Ginda]

The chatzilla 0.8.5 branch has landed, if you believe this bug is not actually
fixed, and you are sure you are running chatzilla 0.8.5-rc1, please reopen the
bug for further consideration.