Re: [PATCH] 0/1: powwow: Adjust Description.

[Nils Gillmann]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 01:21:12AM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote:
>> You have to apply an trivial short patch, or use the version you
>> won't find in guix master, to not have ";" as the command
>> separator. Still useable as a chatclient, but distracting. The
>> original purpose of this software is what is described in the
>> package definition now.
>
> So, there's something with the character 'c' that prevents its use as a
> chat client? I don't understand, can you explain more?

No, the CMDSEP (see defines.h) character is currently assigned to ';'
as you can imagine this can be pretty annoying when you write a
sentence containing ";" and it breaks the sentence.

What lavachat.symlynx.com/unix/ (one of the historic subpages of
psyced.org) sets the character to is (I'll expand this one for
readability now):

Keysym-Name "section"
html hexadecimal "&#xA7;"
html named char "&sect;"
LaTeX "\S"
on my keyboard "§"

So you can use it as a chatclient as you can use any telnet
client as a chat client, but what I had written is not correct
and was based on assumptions recently corrected.
I could expand the description with this knowledge to something
similar to "it can also be used as a chatclient for various
chatservers like psyced.org, but keep in mind that we use an
unpatched version here which maps ";" to commando separation."

What do you think, should I extend the description I submitted in
this thread, based on what I just explained?
-- 
ng
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