circe-display-NICK (thoughts on)

[retroj]

I wonder if the nick change message can be shortened any, and reviewing circe-display-NICK, two questions occurred to me:

1. Do we really need to show the user's host mask for this type of message?
2. When you change your own nick, why is there one message format for the server buffer, but a different message format for channel buffers?

Discuss :)

[jorgenschaefer]

1. Yes, makes identifying (ab-)users easier, especially on networks without nickserv. But we can move it to the end of the message, if that makes it better.

2. IIRC, because it would have required an additional condition in the channel buffer loop. ;-) We can change the server buffer format to be consistent if we like.

[retroj]

I think the message in the server buffer is good. We might want to put that conditional into the channel buffer loop, though.

In lieu of changing the default message format, I would like to be able to customize it, to remove the host mask on my system. I could override the entire handler, but in this case it is such a large procedure that I think perhaps the strings should be individually customizable.

[jorgenschaefer]

In theory, I think we should have format strings for all messages Circe emits. So yes, please extract the format string into a variable and use that.