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    125125                        <description>
    126126                                <para>
    127                                         This command gives you a list of all the accounts known by BitlBee, including the numbers you'll need for most account commands.
     127                                        This command gives you a list of all the accounts known by BitlBee.
    128128                                </para>
    129129                        </description>
     
    138138                        <description>
    139139                                <para>
    140                                         This account can be used to change various settings for IM accounts. For all protocols, this command can be used to change the handle or the password BitlBee uses to log in and if it should be logged in automatically. Some protocols have additional settings. You can see the settings available for a connection by typing <emphasis>account set &lt;account id&gt;</emphasis>.
     140                                        This command can be used to change various settings for IM accounts. For all protocols, this command can be used to change the handle or the password BitlBee uses to log in and if it should be logged in automatically. Some protocols have additional settings. You can see the settings available for a connection by typing <emphasis>account set &lt;account id&gt;</emphasis>.
    141141                                </para>
    142142                               
    143143                                <para>
    144                                         For more infomation about a setting, see <emphasis>help set &lt;setting&gt;</emphasis>. For details about the syntax of this command, see <emphasis>help set</emphasis>.
     144                                        For more infomation about a setting, see <emphasis>help set &lt;setting&gt;</emphasis>.
    145145                                </para>
    146146                               
    147147                                <para>
    148148                                        The account ID can be a number (see <emphasis>account list</emphasis>), the protocol name or (part of) the screenname, as long as it matches only one connection.
     149                                </para>
     150                        </description>
     151                </bitlbee-command>
     152        </bitlbee-command>
     153
     154        <bitlbee-command name="chat">
     155                <short-description>Chatroom list maintenance</short-description>
     156                <syntax>chat &lt;action&gt; [&lt;arguments&gt;]</syntax>
     157
     158                <description>
     159
     160                        <para>
     161                                Available actions: add, del, list, with and set. See <emphasis>help chat &lt;action&gt;</emphasis> for more information.
     162                        </para>
     163
     164                </description>
     165
     166                <bitlbee-command name="add">
     167                        <syntax>chat add &lt;account&gt; &lt;room&gt; [&lt;channel&gt;]</syntax>
     168
     169                        <description>
     170                                <para>
     171                                        Add a chatroom to the list of chatrooms you're interested in. BitlBee needs this list to map room names to a proper IRC channel name.
     172                                </para>
     173
     174                                <para>
     175                                        After adding a room to your list, you can simply use the IRC /join command to enter the room. Also, you can tell BitlBee to automatically join the room when you log in. (See <emphasis>chat set</emphasis>)
     176                                </para>
     177
     178                                <para>
     179                                        Password-protected rooms work exactly like on IRC, by passing the password as an extra argument to /join.
     180                                </para>
     181                        </description>
     182
     183                </bitlbee-command>
     184
     185                <bitlbee-command name="del">
     186                        <syntax>chat del &lt;chat id&gt;</syntax>
     187
     188                        <description>
     189                                <para>
     190                                        This commands deletes an chatroom from your list.
     191                                </para>
     192
     193                                <para>
     194                                        The room ID can be a number (see <emphasis>chat list</emphasis>), or (part of) the name of the room/channel.
     195                                </para>
     196                        </description>
     197                </bitlbee-command>
     198
     199                <bitlbee-command name="list">
     200                        <syntax>chat list</syntax>
     201
     202                        <description>
     203                                <para>
     204                                        This command gives you a list of all the chatrooms known by BitlBee.
     205                                </para>
     206                        </description>
     207                </bitlbee-command>
     208
     209                <bitlbee-command name="with">
     210                        <syntax>chat with &lt;nickname&gt;</syntax>
     211
     212                        <description>
     213                                <para>
     214                                        While most <emphasis>chat</emphasis> subcommands are about named chatrooms, this command can be used to open an unnamed groupchat with one or more persons. This command is what <emphasis>/join #nickname</emphasis> used to do in older BitlBee versions.
     215                                </para>
     216                        </description>
     217                </bitlbee-command>
     218
     219                <bitlbee-command name="set">
     220                        <syntax>chat set &lt;chat id&gt;</syntax>
     221                        <syntax>chat set &lt;chat id&gt;/&lt;setting&gt;</syntax>
     222                        <syntax>chat set &lt;chat id&gt;/&lt;setting&gt; &lt;value&gt;</syntax>
     223                        <syntax>chat set -del &lt;chat id&gt;/&lt;setting&gt;</syntax>
     224
     225                        <description>
     226                                <para>
     227                                        This command can be used to change various settings for chatrooms.
     228                                </para>
     229                               
     230                                <para>
     231                                        For more infomation about a setting, see <emphasis>help set &lt;setting&gt;</emphasis>.
     232                                </para>
     233                               
     234                                <para>
     235                                        The room ID can be a number (see <emphasis>chat list</emphasis>), or (part of) the name of the room/channel.
    149236                                </para>
    150237                        </description>
     
    303390        </bitlbee-setting>
    304391
     392        <bitlbee-setting name="auto_join" type="boolean" scope="chat">
     393                <default>false</default>
     394
     395                <description>
     396                        <para>
     397                                With this option enabled, BitlBee will automatically join this chatroom when you log in.
     398                        </para>
     399                </description>
     400        </bitlbee-setting>
     401
    305402        <bitlbee-setting name="auto_reconnect" type="boolean" scope="both">
    306403                <default>false</default>
     
    321418        </bitlbee-setting>
    322419
    323         <bitlbee-setting name="auto_reconnect_delay" type="integer" scope="global">
    324                 <default>300</default>
    325 
    326                 <description>
    327                         <para>
    328                                 Tell BitlBee after how many seconds it should attempt to bring an IM-connection back up after a crash. It's not a good idea to set this value very low, it will cause too much useless traffic when an IM-server is down for a few hours.
     420        <bitlbee-setting name="auto_reconnect_delay" type="string" scope="global">
     421                <default>5*3&lt;900</default>
     422
     423                <description>
     424                        <para>
     425                                Tell BitlBee after how many seconds it should attempt to bring a broken IM-connection back up.
     426                        </para>
     427
     428                        <para>
     429                                This can be one integer, for a constant delay. One can also set it to something like &quot;10*10&quot;, which means wait for ten seconds on the first reconnect, multiply it by ten on every failure. Once successfully connected, this delay is re-set to the initial value. With &lt; you can give a maximum delay.
    329430                        </para>
    330431
    331432                        <para>
    332433                                See also the <emphasis>auto_reconnect</emphasis> setting.
     434                        </para>
     435                </description>
     436        </bitlbee-setting>
     437
     438        <bitlbee-setting name="away" type="string" scope="both">
     439                <description>
     440                        <para>
     441                                To mark yourself as away, it is recommended to just use <emphasis>/away</emphasis>, like on normal IRC networks. If you want to mark yourself as away on only one IM network, you can use this per-account setting.
     442                        </para>
     443
     444                        <para>
     445                                You can set it to any value and BitlBee will try to map it to the most appropriate away state for every open IM connection, or set it as a free-form away message where possible.
     446                        </para>
     447
     448                        <para>
     449                                Any per-account away setting will override globally set away states. To un-set the setting, use <emphasis>set -del away</emphasis>.
    333450                        </para>
    334451                </description>
     
    482599        </bitlbee-setting>
    483600
     601        <bitlbee-setting name="nick" type="string" scope="chat">
     602
     603                <description>
     604                        <para>
     605                                You can use this option to set your nickname in a chatroom. You won't see this nickname yourself, but other people in the room will. By default, BitlBee will use your username as the chatroom nickname.
     606                        </para>
     607                </description>
     608        </bitlbee-setting>
     609
     610        <bitlbee-setting name="nick_source" type="string" scope="account">
     611                <default>handle</default>
     612                <possible-values>handle, full_name, first_name</possible-values>
     613
     614                <description>
     615                        <para>
     616                                By default, BitlBee generates a nickname for every contact by taking its handle and chopping off everything after the @. In some cases, this gives very inconvenient nicknames. The Facebook XMPP server is a good example, as all Facebook XMPP handles are numeric.
     617                        </para>
     618
     619                        <para>
     620                                With this setting set to <emphasis>full_name</emphasis>, the person's full name is used to generate a nickname. Or if you don't like long nicknames, set this setting to <emphasis>first_name</emphasis> instead and only the first word will be used. Note that the full name can be full of non-ASCII characters which will be stripped off.
     621                        </para>
     622                </description>
     623        </bitlbee-setting>
     624
    484625        <bitlbee-setting name="ops" type="string" scope="global">
    485626                <default>both</default>
     
    576717        <bitlbee-setting name="resource_select" type="string" scope="account">
    577718                <default>priority</default>
    578                 <possible-values>priority, time</possible-values>
     719                <possible-values>priority, activity</possible-values>
    579720
    580721                <description>
     
    584725
    585726                        <para>
    586                                 Normally it's set to <emphasis>priority</emphasis> which means messages will always be delivered to the buddy's resource with the highest priority. If the setting is set to <emphasis>time</emphasis>, messages will be delivered to the resource that was last used to send you a message (or the resource that most recently connected).
     727                                Normally it's set to <emphasis>priority</emphasis> which means messages will always be delivered to the buddy's resource with the highest priority. If the setting is set to <emphasis>activity</emphasis>, messages will be delivered to the resource that was last used to send you a message (or the resource that most recently connected).
    587728                        </para>
    588729                </description>
     
    633774                        <para>
    634775                                Currently only available for Jabber connections. Set this to true if the server accepts SSL connections.
     776                        </para>
     777                </description>
     778        </bitlbee-setting>
     779
     780        <bitlbee-setting name="status" type="string" scope="both">
     781                <description>
     782                        <para>
     783                                Certain protocols (like Jabber/XMPP) support status messages, similar to away messages. They can be used to indicate things like your location or activity, without showing up as away/busy.
     784                        </para>
     785
     786                        <para>
     787                                This setting can be used to set such a message. It will be available as a per-account setting for protocols that support it, and also as a global setting (which will then automatically be used for all protocols that support it).
     788                        </para>
     789
     790                        <para>
     791                                Away states set using <emphasis>/away</emphasis> or the <emphasis>away</emphasis> setting will override this setting. To un-set the setting, use <emphasis>set -del status</emphasis>.
    635792                        </para>
    636793                </description>
     
    8501007
    8511008        </bitlbee-command>
    852 
    853         <bitlbee-command name="join_chat">
    854                 <short-description>Join a named groupchat/conference room</short-description>
    855                 <syntax>join_chat &lt;connection&gt; &lt;room name&gt; [&lt;channel name&gt;] [&lt;room nickname&gt;] [&lt;password&gt;]</syntax>
    856 
    857                 <description>
    858                         <para>
    859                                 On most IM-networks groupchats can be started using the /join command. (<emphasis>/join #foo</emphasis> to start a chatroom with you and <emphasis>foo</emphasis>) This doesn't work with names groupchats though (which exist on Jabber networks and AIM, for example), instead you can use this command.
    860                         </para>
    861 
    862                         <para>
    863                                 The first two arguments are required. <emphasis>room name</emphasis> is the name of the chatroom on the IM-network. <emphasis>channel name</emphasis> is the IRC channel name BitlBee should map this to. <emphasis>room nickname</emphasis> is the nickname you want to have in this channel. If you don't give these options, BitlBee will do the right guesses.
    864                         </para>
    865 
    866                         <para>
    867                                 The following command will join you to the chatroom called <emphasis>bitlbee@conference.bitlbee.org</emphasis>. The channel will be called <emphasis>&amp;bitlbee-help</emphasis> because <emphasis>&amp;bitlbee</emphasis> will already be in use. Your nickname will be <emphasis>help-me</emphasis>.
    868                         </para>
    869                 </description>
    870 
    871                 <ircexample>
    872                         <ircline nick="wilmer">join_chat jabber bitlbee@conference.bitlbee.org &amp;bitlbee-help help-me</ircline>
    873                 </ircexample>
    874 
    875         </bitlbee-command>
    8761009</chapter>
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