Command shortcut for messaging a user (/msg)
In IRC you can type /msg username or /msg username foo to open a chat with a user and send them a message (everything after their username). This would be very useful to quickly switch to a conversation with a user. After typing /msg, an autocomplete list of users pops up, and then you can optionally add a message. I've already built this, would you be interested in this making it upstream?
Alan
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This feature has been completed and was shipped with v3.4.
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Schoaf
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Unfortunately it does not work for multi user messages.
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Alan
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1.) Yes, that's already added (though there might be a way to optimize performance, right now I'm using `command.GotoLocation` which forces a client refresh it seems.
2.) I was thinking about that too, but wasn't sure how much to "pollute" the shortcut namespace. And from a technical standpoint, I don't see anywhere to easily drop in aliases. Am I missing something or would the ability to do that need to be built in as well?
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Thanks Alan! Would love to take this! A few thoughts:
1. Just to check, after the command is executed, would the user be "transported" to the DM channel so they could hear the reply?
2. Perhaps also alias with `/dm`?