Re: XChat links to the Debian BTS
On 05/10/11 22:11, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> On 5 October 2011 19:28, Andreas Rönnquist <gusnan@gusnan.se> wrote:
>> Hi everybody.
>>
>> Using XChat, is there a way to interpret #nnnnnn as a link to
>> http://bugs.debian.org/nnnnnn? As it is now, #nnnnnn is interpreted as
>> an IRC channel (Which pretty much always is wrong if n is a number), and
>> gives me the option to join it - not quite what I want.
>>
> Your using the wrong tool for the job, but I dont know what the right
> tool is. XChat is just for chatting on IRC, thats what its designed
> for and thats what its good for.
Oh, you are right. I mean of course open the links in an external
browser - which it does on standard links - but I want the behaviour on
"links" which starts with the character '#' changed.
>
>> I guess this would involve some scripting, but not having done any
>> scripting for XChat I dont really know where to start. In the option
>> menus I do find "Auto replace", but that seems to only involve what I
>> write in my messages and replaces stuff in my message before it gets to
>> the channel.
>
> Thats because its just for chatting on IRC.
... and indeed opening links in your default desktop webbrowser. Sorry
for not being more specific.
/Andreas
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