color_nick_offline does not affect /me

[NoSuck]

Steps to reproduce

1. /set weechat.look.color_nick_offline on
2. /me is hungry.
3. /part

Current behavior

The nick that replaces /me stays the same color.

Expected behavior

The nick's color would change to weechat.color.chat_nick_offline.

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• WeeChat version: 2.8, Mar 31 2020 22:07:29
• OS, distribution and version: Linux 5.5.13-arch2-1 [RFC] Features/configurable log name #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon, 30 Mar 2020 20:42:41 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[flashcode]

Hi,

This is not really a bug (even if it can be considered as a bug).

The nick in /me messages is displayed in the message itself, not in the prefix. And the option weechat.look.color_nick_offline affects only nicks displayed in prefix.

To fix that it would require breaking changes because WeeChat (core) does not know that irc plugin writes a nick name in the message itself.
So IRC should print /me messages differently to use the message in the prefix, but this would lead to major display changes, and a redesign of /me messages.

For now I may just close this as "won't fix", since it's not a major issue for me.

[NoSuck]

Thank you for the details. I figured as much. Also, I can't imagine it would be a major issue for anyone, really.

May this issue remain as a search hit for future color_nick_offline searches.