[Erc-discuss] Re: needless punctuation in output of `/names' command

[Jesse Alama]

Michael Olson <address@hidden> writes:

> Jesse Alama <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> When I issue the command `/names' in my favorite channel, #emacs, on
>> irc.freenode.net, I'm given a list of all the nicknames of users
>> currently logged in to that channel.  If this list is long, it's
>> punctuated with
>>
>> "*** Users on #emacs: "
>>
>> (The list also begins with this string.)  It seems to me that this
>> punctuation is needless.  Is there some way of getting ERC to
>> eliminate this punctuation?
>
> Can you clarify what you mean by "punctuated", here?  Do you mean that
> you only want the "Users on #emacs: " prefix to display before the
> first "chunk" of users, and not for each chunk after that?

That's right: there's the initial "Users on #emacs: ", which I suppose
isn't so bad, but it would be nice if I didn't have to see the other
instances of "Users are #emacs: ".

Jesse

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Jesse Alama (address@hidden)