Real mentions for Matrix users based on their Displayname?

[poVoq]

Edit: Turns out this is a general problem with mentions not being translated IRC -> Matrix except for Heisenbridge users.

When replying with mentioning a nick on IRC the RELAYMSG (default "/m") isn't stripped Matrix side and thus there is no proper mention tagged.

Would be cool if that could be added.

[poVoq]

Hmm even when I remove the tag manually the non-Heisenbridge users do not get mentions... odd.

[hifi]

Heisenbridge creates mentions only between real IRC nicks and that is by design Mapping Matrix users based on their displaynames isn't unique and would rarely work correctly.

[poVoq]

Hmm, that is too bad.

Maybe it is a cultural difference from the IRC / XMPP world where nicks in group-chats are always ambiguous, but I don't really see a problem with notifications like that even when they fail or mismatch in a few cases. More often then not they probably reach the right person, at least on IRC and XMPP they do.

[poVoq]

Would mentioning the full Matrix ID work?

I guess Heisenbridge could set the "real name" to the full Matrix ID so that when you really want to ping a user you could do it that way.

[hifi]

I guess it would but no one on IRC would know it.

You can disable displaynames completely with the ROOM command, though.

[poVoq]

Heisenbridge could not transfer the MIXD to the IRC real name field? That is easy to look up on IRC without cluttering the normal chat.

[hifi]

That doesn't work for plumbs, the users are not actually connected to IRC, only the bridge bot.

[poVoq]

Ah yes slaps forehead