[IRCServices Coding] 5.1 Suggestion: Aliases.

[Craig McLure]

I understand that it could be done as a module, and it was in
consideration when i added it in, but in all fairness, it was a choice
between coding, testing, debugging, etc of a module, vs. a one liner
into the nickserv command table. Time was an issue as well, which was
why i made the core choice.

Glad you're thinking about it though :)

Andrew Church wrote:
>> On chatspike, i've modified a few files for 'convieniance' purposes, 
>> adding things like id -> handle_identify and what not, what would be 
>> nice, if it were possible to configure some of these in the 
>> configuration file, rather than having to modifying the core :)
> 
>      You could just make a module with something like
> 
> extern char *s_NickServ;
> int do_privmsg(const char *source, const char *target, char *buf)
> {
>     if (irc_stricmp(target, s_NickServ) == 0
>      && stricmp(buf, "ID", 2)
>      && isspace(buf[2]
>     ) {
>         memmove(buf+8, buf+2, strlen(buf+8));
>         memcpy(buf, "IDENTIFY", 8);
>     }
>     return 0;
> }
> int init_module()
> {
>     // ...
>     add_callback_pri(NULL, "m_privmsg", do_privmsg, CBPRI_MAX); // called first
>     // ...
> }
> 
> which is rather kludgey in that it relies on `buf' being writeable and
> having room for 6 more bytes (which should always be true), but it doesn't
> require modifying the core.  I'll think about a more general solution,
> though.
> 
>   --Andrew Church
>     achurch at achurch.org
>     http://achurch.org/
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