Control: tag -1 upstream On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 06:31:50AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Package: hexchat > Version: 2.14.1-2 > Tags: patch > > If I try to paste output into hexchat, it will attempt to interpret any > unix pathnames as IRC commands. For example: > > [CC] t_truncate_self > /bin/bash ../libtool --quiet --tag=CC --mode=link gcc t_truncate_self.c -o > t_truncate_self -g -O2 -g -O2 -DDEBUG -I../include -DVERSION=\"1.1.1\" > -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -funsigned-char -fno-strict-aliasing > -Wall -DHAVE_FALLOCATE -lattr /usr/lib/libhandle.la -lacl -lpthread > ../lib/libtest.la > libtool: error: cannot find the library '/usr/lib/libhandle.la' or > unhandled argument '/usr/lib/libhandle.la' > > will not paste the second line as text to the person I'm having a > conversation with; rather it will attempt to interpret the second line > as a command, and the conversation gets derailed with missing lines.
Yeah, it's a somewhat annoying thing I noticed myself. > Hexchat used to have code to detect unix pathnames, but it's currently > commented out. I've written and lightly tested a better heuristic -- > IRC commands do not contain a /, so if we see a / before we see a space, > we can infer this is not an IRC command. > > This is a superset of the current test for "//" at the beginning of > a string, so delete that check as well. > > Description: Don't interpret unix pathnames as commands > Replace the list of common unix pathnames with a simpler heuristic; > if there are two '/' characters before there is a ' ', this cannot be an > IRC command, so just send it to the server as text instead of a command. > Author: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> The concept sounds good to me, could you please try to get this uptream? The github project is https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat Thanks! -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `-
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