899821 - Add $(tab) keyword to Chatzilla alias syntax to capture all tab types

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Other Applications Graveyard :: ChatZilla, enhancement)

Description

[Will Pittenger]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130618035212

Steps to reproduce:

Sometimes it might be handy to have a keyword that represents the current tab name.  $(tab) perhaps.  $(network) would evaluate to the name of the current network even if the network tab isn't current.  Some discussion would be needed as to whether $(tab) would output the entire url or just the literal channel name for a channel.

Comment 1

[Mardeg]

From the FAQ:
$(recip) - Gets the name of the target of the alias. This is the name of the view the alias is run on, e.g. channel name.

Comment 2

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to Mardeg from comment #1)
> From the FAQ:
> $(recip) - Gets the name of the target of the alias. This is the name of the
> view the alias is run on, e.g. channel name.

Yes, but:
- AFAIK there's no easy way to get the network name from a query or channel tab
- $(recip) gives an error in a client or network tab, so there's no general way to access the "tab name", which may be:
  - "*client*" in the client tab
  - the network name (e.g. "moznet") in a network tab
  - the nick being talked to (e.g. "NickServ", or maybe "NickServ,isnick") in a query tab
  - the channel name (e.g. "#chatzilla") in a channel tab.

Comment 3

[Mardeg]

(In reply to Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec] from comment #2)
> - AFAIK there's no easy way to get the network name from a query or channel
> tab
> - $(recip) gives an error in a client or network tab, so there's no general
> way to access the "tab name", which may be:
>   - "*client*" in the client tab
>   - the network name (e.g. "moznet") in a network tab
The *client* tab wasn't mentioned in comment 0, and bug 899844 has already been filed for $(network)/$(server)
Please file a separate bug for either $(client) or a general way for any tab.

Comment 4

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to Mardeg from comment #3)
> The *client* tab wasn't mentioned in comment 0, and bug 899844 has already
> been filed for $(network)/$(server)
> Please file a separate bug for either $(client) or a general way for any tab.

Comment #0 mentioned "the current tab name" (and later on special-cased channel tabs), I just elaborated on that.

Comment 5

[Mardeg]

Re-opening this just for $(tab)

Comment 6

[James Ross]

FWIW, I'm happy to either fix $(recip) to work on all tabs (slightly surprised it doesn't) or add a new alias expansion for the name of the current tab (and one for URL perhaps while we're here).

Comment 7

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to James Ross from comment #6)
> FWIW, I'm happy to either fix $(recip) to work on all tabs (slightly
> surprised it doesn't) or add a new alias expansion for the name of the
> current tab (and one for URL perhaps while we're here).

IMHO that would be nice.
After having a cursory look at xul/content/commands.js it seems to me that bug 899844 and this bug will have to be fixed one at a time to avoid mutual bit-rot in functions parseAlias and replaceAll.