User input customized IRC styling

[RobertEcker]

Enter text into the input field (next to nickname), e.g., /j #abc Mark all text Strg-C

this this is shown: [colour fore={f} back={b}]/j #abc[/colour]

[megawac]

That's a feature that I started writing months ago but never finished :/. It's basically what the options/keyboards referring to.

It's supposed to make help make it easy to customize messages with IRC styles [bold/italic/underline/colour]

Really outta document it some time...

[RobertEcker]

mh strange feature :-P

[megawac]

Its also what name and bbcode refer to in here. https://github.com/megawac/qwebirc-enhancements/blob/master/js/src/config/styles.js

I probably should not remap ctrl+c eh? It would be nice to have a dropdown menu on the input to style the message instead

[RobertEcker]

IMHO as a user i do not expect that this happens when using ctrl+c

[RobertEcker]

dropdown menu - yeah would be better

[megawac]

Ya I'll definitely drop ctrl+c (that's bad). I don't even remember writing that hotkey. Do you think the other ones make sense @RobertEcker?

[RobertEcker]

or maybe this way: something you can click on (link?) to copy this code

[megawac]

I'm thinking a dropdown menu like the following

• Bold Selected [ctrl+b]
• Italic Selected [ctrl+i]
• Underline Selected [ctrl+u]
• Set Foreground Colour - menu
• Set Background Colour - menu

@RobertEcker should I keep the bold, underline, italic hotkeys?

[RobertEcker]

ctrl+b/i/u are common, e.g., in forum - so they are good

[RobertEcker]

BTW: what about inserting directlinks (e.g,. for smileys) would enhance irc

[megawac]

eh that's too cluttery imo

[RobertEcker]

why not

• links: [link]http://[/link] to make it clickable
• smiley [smiley]:-)[/smiley] to replace it with the smiley icon

[RobertEcker]

just my 2 cents :-D

[megawac]

Its up to the IRC client how to parse and display sequences of characters. If they want to convert :) to :smile: they can - no need for bbcode

Links are already clickable and are identified by this module (which I need to add tests for -- thanks for the reminder).

(Writing this mainly for my tests I gotta write) The urlifier is extremely greedy and should be able to identify pretty much any link including:

• google.ca
• http://google.ca
• www.google.ca
• www.google.ca?s=15
• www.a.google.ca/random?s=15#53

Also matches channels

• qwebirc

[RobertEcker]

you are right of course http:// is not a correct URL so its not clickable

[RobertEcker]

If they want to convert :) to :smile: they can - no need for bbcode

of course it is up to the IRC client - but can your client this at the moment?

BTW: can you switch on/off the time [hh:mm]??

[megawac]

Theres an option for that show_timestamp but it doesn't hide previous timestamps.

If you want to submit a pr it wouldn't be hard to fix. Just add a rule to qui.less like

.hide-timestamps .timestamp {
   display: none;
   visibility: hidden;
}

[RobertEcker]

show_timestamp is this option customizable for each user or is it used for all users?

[megawac]

Its in the Interface tab of Options

[RobertEcker]

so its for each user? tnx