Sending multiline messages

[zuran_]

I'd like to see support for sending multiline messages with bitlbee. The way to do this would probably be using an escaped newline character, for instance "\n" or whatever you see fit.

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Example:

Sending someone "Hello\n\nHow are you?" would display as:

"Hello

How are you?"

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If it doesn't already do so, it could also be implemented in the buddy_sendbuffer/send_buffer feature, so that multiline pastes shows as multiline at the recievers.

Just to be sure someone doesn't get a \n translated into a newline by accident, it could be an option, defaulting to "off".

[yes, exactly. this.]

+1

[budkin]

is there any progress on this? is it already implemented? I tried paste_buffer setting and it didn't work, it still sends separate messages

[dx]

It works, set a high enough timeout and ensure your client doesn't delay messages with its own flood control.

[budkin]

Thank you for a quick response. I can't get it to work in weechat, maybe I should change some setting? It works in other clients out of the box, though, I tried irssi and hexchat

[anonymous]

ah, I found it. had to set "irc.server.<server>.anti_flood_prio_high" to 0

[budkin]

now, when I send a multiline message to someone on Telegram, the lines are glued together in one big line, regardless of the client I use. It's probably a libpurple or purple-telegram bug

[wilmer]

Could even be that Telegram is HTML-ish and interprets all kinds of whitespace like single horizontal spaces? (Wild guess.)

[budkin]

No, it's a bug in the telegram plugin for libpurple,see ​https://github.com/majn/telegram-purple/issues/182