^C, ^R, etc. doesn't work in ircchat.py?
jquast opened this issue · comments
I won't fix this now, its too dangerous. We need to be able to print the control characters, too -- currently we assume everything is naturally printable -- irssi would term.reverse('C') for ^C, but to do that with an inputbar will reset its sequence attributes and fuck it all up. So we could display '^C' instead, but we have to return byte \x03, and we have to backspace over '^C' (two characters instead of one), etc.
this is just a major fuck-all mess. Suggest instead to use pipe codes for input, instead.
Pipe codes would be fine. Do we have any that exist for bold, reverse, and underline?
not that i know of, don't know if they exist, either. the http url i previously referenced (mystic wiki) is dead
Well, we can just let them use what's available to pipe_decode for now.
For what it's worth, a previous version worked with ^C, ^R, etc. -- but it did not print the characters. They still came across in the output to IRC, though. Anyhow, I'll take a crack at a pipe_decode-like function for use in ircchat.py.