Nick Completer by DC-itsme (carabalo@hilbert.geom.umn.edu)
version 0.70 ALPHA (preliminary test version)
This script claims ^n and ^t .
modified by Jolo to ^k and ^t
This is a fairly simple script to run. Start typing the nick of someone
on the channel to which you are currently speaking. Then press Ctrl-n.
This script fills in a nick for you. If choices are given (i.e., if
several nicks match the search string — whatever you typed after the
last space preceding your pressing Ctrl-n), press Ctrl-t to switch among
these. Typing a 2 or 3 letter search string will make using Ctrl-t
unnecessary in most cases.
KNOWN BUG: This script will not work properly if the search string
ends in a . This has already been fixed in version 0.80, which is not
yet ready for release however. This bug is easily avoided. e.g., if
\bot_jerk is on the channel, you can type \b and then press Ctrl-n .
Simply do not press Ctrl-n right after typing a .
To cycle through all of the nicks on the channel, simply press Ctrl-n
at the beginning of the input line, or after a space — pressing Ctrl-t
then moves you from nick to nick.
FEATURES/LIMITATIONS
Even though this version is unfinished, it is by far the best Nick
Completion script I have written.
1) Like my earlier versions (such as NiComplete.irc, and earlier versions
of this very script), many odd characters (like {,},|,-, _, ^, and )
can be handled (\ can be anywhere in the nick, but it should NOT be at
the end of the search string — see KNOWN BUG above).
2) This script can be activated from anywhere on the input line.
3) If multiple nicks match the search string, all such nicks are shown,
and you can switch among them by pressing Ctrl-t, as noted above.
WARNING: Do not press Ctrl-t until this script displays the list of
possibilities.
4) This script should be reasonably portable, but it has only been tested
on my ircii 2.8.2 client. It should be compatible with other scripts,
for the most part, the most obvious possible conflict being the binding
of ^n and ^t by this script.
NOTES ON CODING
1) Handling of odd characters was accomplished by using $^\^^variable
when appropriate, and by judicious use of command [$variable] in place
of eval command $variable . eval can really mess things up in a
script like this.
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2) Because deletepreviousword does not function properly in ircii (e.g.,
it counts a-b-c-d as four words), I needed some other way to get the
search string. Cutting the whole line saves it to $U . At that point,
I wanted to make use of the $~ variable, which stores the last word in
the current buffer. In order to put $U in the right place, I made it
a parameter of the get_search routine.
DISCLAIMER: This program is being tested on a clean installation of
ircii 2.8.2, not running other scripts. I do not know how it will work
on other clients. There may be bugs, as this is a test version (see
KNOWN BUG above).
Please direct all comments to the author.
Copyright (c) by David G. Caraballo, July 1996
//^bind ^k parsecommand completethenick //^bind ^t parsecommand change_nicks
//alias becho echo $0-
becho Nick Completer 0.70 ALPHA
becho Nick Completer 0.70 ALPHA TEST (by DC-itsme!carabalo@hilbert.geom.umn.edu)
becho USAGE: Start typing the nick, and then press Ctrl-n.
becho If several choices appear, press Ctrl-t to switch among them.
becho For more details, read the discussion in the script.
deletes $0 chars from the end of the input line
//alias delchars { @ delcharsctr = 0 //while ([$delcharsctr]<[$0]) { //parsekey backspace;@ delcharsctr = delcharsctr + 1 } //^assign -delchars_ctr }
//alias get_search { //^assign nic.search.temp [$~] @ nic.search.len = [$@nic.search.temp] - 2 @ nic.search = [$mid(1 $nic.search.len [$~])] //^assign -nic.search.temp }
//alias completethenick { //parsekey eraseline;//parsekey yankfrom_cutbuffer
@ nic.toggle=0 //^assign -thenick;//^assign -nic.list //^assign -nic.search;//^assign -nic.search.len
Get search string.
if ([$right(1 $U)]== [ ]) { @ nic.search = [$right(0 [])] }{ get_search $U }
Now print the first match and THEN create a list of all nicks in $C
starting with nic.search .
^assign -nic.chanusers
@ nic.chanusers = [$chanusers($C)]
The next line won’t work right without the ^\^^ in front of nic.chanusers.
@ nic.search2 = [${nic.search##[]}] @ listnum = [$match($^\^^nic.search2 $^\^^nic.chanusers)] @ thenick = [$word(${listnum - 1} $nic.chanusers)] @ nic.ctr1 = [$listnum] //^assign -listnum;//^assign -nic.search2 delchars $nic.search.len //type $^\^^thenick @ nic.toggle = 1;@nic.ctr2 = 0 @ nic.list = [$thenick] //while ([$nic.ctr1] <= [$#nic.chanusers]) { if ( match($^\^^nic.search $word($nic.ctr1 $^\^^nic.chanusers)) > 0 ) { @ nic.list = [$nic.list $word($nic.ctr1 $nic.chanusers)] }{} @ nic.ctr1 = nic.ctr1 + 1 } if ([$#nic.list] > 1) { becho Press Ctrl-t to switch among the nicks in []’s: [$nic.list] }{ if ([$#nic.list] < 1) { eval becho *** Nick Completer did not find a nick beginning with ‘$^\^^nic.search’ on channel ${ C }. }{} } }
//alias change_nicks { if (nic.toggle) { if (nic.ctr2 < [$#nic.list] - 1) { @ nic.ctr2 = nic.ctr2 + 1 }{ @ nic.ctr2 = 0} delchars $@thenick @ thenick = [$word($nic.ctr2 $nic.list)] //type $^\^^{ thenick } //^assign -nic.chanusers }{} }