This is a somewhat silly script for WeeChat, a command-line multipurpose chat client, whose sole purpose is to prevent you from entering in a typical IRC command that has leading slashes and is thus sent to the channel buffer instead of being interpreted as a command by the IRC client and/or server.
For example, if you want to change nicks on IRC, you can do it by sending the following command:
However, if you mistakenly have some leading spaces before or after the slash, like:
the command will not be interpreted as such, and will instead simply be sent to
the channel. This has happened to be enough due to my rampant usage of the
go.py script that I got fed
up and wrote this separate script to prevent me from making dumb mistakes.
Once the script is installed, usage is straightforward and unconfigurable. The script hooks into the input event that is triggered when you hit 'enter' and want to send the text to the buffer. In the event that it detects leading spaces before or after the slash character, the input will not be sent to the buffer, and you will receive an alert string in the core weechat buffer indicating this fact:
It turns out that writing scripts for WeeChat is pretty difficult, due to the somewhat scattered documentation across the scripts API and the C-based plugin API. I would have preferred a slightly different approach here – highlighting the leading spaces as if they were a spelling mistake instead of sending an error to the core weechat bufffer – but this is good enough for me at the moment.
You can install this script directly, which may be more up-to-date than what is available elsewhere:
cd ~/.weechat/python/
wget 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jperras/command_cop/master/command_cop.py'
cd autoload/
ln -s ../command_cop.py .
If you prefer to clone the repository instead of wget'ing the script, you can
do the following:
git clone 'https://github.com/GermainZ/weechat-vimode.git'
git clone 'https://github.com/jperras/command_cop.git'
ln -s /path/to/git/repo/command_cop.py ~/.weechat/python/autoload/command_cop.py