"/ignore -except #channel QUITS" not working as expected.

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• • • Issue "/ignore -except #channel QUITS" not working as expected. #720 opened by @kriel

I'm attempting to hide JOINS PARTS QUITS from all channels except certain ones that I specify.

/ignore -except #channel JOINS PARTS QUITS
/ignore * JOINS PARTS QUITS

client2: /j #channel

client1: /j #channel
client1: /leave
client1: /j #channel
client1: /quit

==client2's view==
client1 [...] has joined #channel
client1 [...] has left #channel []
client1 [...] has joined #channel
...
...
//notice the lack of quit message.

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• • • Comment 1123 by @coekie

I haven't really investigated this yet, but I suspect this is caused by ignores being handled on two levels: the quit message from the irc server (of which there is only one) and the message being printed (of which there are as many as that client is on channels). The ignore is handled on one level, the ignore-exception on another. That is similar to a hilight-bug: #275 .
QUITs aren't the only thing affected by this, but it's probably the worst one.

I fear a complete solution for that sort of ignore problems would be similar to the solution in my comment in #275 : instead of doing the ignore immediately, flag a message as "to be ignored unless there is an ignore exception".