Corrently mention fully qualified nicks in replies

[SoniEx2]

I'm trying to understand MASTODON_MAYBE_REPLY but I have no idea how it works?

[kensanata]

It tries to figure out whether the current message is a reply to somebody or not.

[SoniEx2]

but how does it know the remote user's... account? or at least how does it insert it into the message? it seems to just shuffle some bytes around???

[SoniEx2]

say I send a message fuz: whatever how does it know fuz means @fuz@whatever and how does it turn fuz: into @fuz@whatever?

I understand how it can turn fuz: into @fuz, because the length is the same and it's just shifting fuz up by one and then adding an @. but how does it add the rest?

[SoniEx2]

I guess bitlbee does something with messages before handing them to us.

[kensanata]

You are right! This is a bug. Some background: the nick we reply to (fuz) is the IRC nick. So if fuz@mastodon.social and fuz@octodon.social are in your channel, one of them is called fuz and the other is called fuz_. So now we take this IRC nick (the handle) and look it up using bee_user_by_handle. This gives us mastodon_user_data. There, we should add the fully qualified name as a member and use that.

[kensanata]

When I just tried it:

09:12 <kensanata> kensanata_: test
09:12 <root> You: [22] @kensanata test
09:12 <kensanata> info 22
...
09:12 <root> content: @kensanata test
...
09:12 <root> mentions: [
09:12 <root>  {
09:12 <root>   id: 67176
09:12 <root>   username: kensanata
09:12 <root>   url: https://social.nasqueron.org/@kensanata
09:12 <root>   acct: kensanata@social.nasqueron.org
09:12 <root>  }
09:12 <root> ]

And when I look at it online, using the official web client, it looks good! How strange.

[kensanata]

So, now I wonder whether this is a bug or not...

[SoniEx2]

Yeah, as I said it seems the mentions go out correctly. But I don't know why it works.

[SoniEx2]

I'm gonna close this because it works.

It works by magic, but what matters is that it works.

[Thaodan]

Does this also apply to mentions in the control channel? something like hello foobar -> hello foobar@bar.de

[kensanata]

I'm not sure what the context for your question is. Are you reporting a new issue? This issue was a question we had and we didn't know how Mastodon works. Will don't know how it works, but … it seems unrelated to what you are saying? I don't know, I'm a bit confused.

[Thaodan]

I was just wondering if it also relates to mentioning user while sending out new toots. But it might be as well a new issue.