Re: Highlight on nickchange

[Doug Lim <dlim@enteract.com>]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:24:51 +0100,
Michael Nottebrock <lofi@lofi.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 
> I noticed that, when I change my own nickname, a status-message about 
> that change of nickname is sent to all open channel and query tabs 
> (belonging to the server-session where I changed the nick), thus 
> highlighting each of them. I don't think this makes very much sense, is 
> there any way to turn that behavior off? If not, would it be feasible to 
> add a configuration switch?
> 

That's not under client control, i.e., it's not x-chat's problem that
everyone can see you change nicks. When you send the /nick command
to the server to change nicks, the server propagates that to all
the clients that share channels with you for the purpose of keeping
channel user lists updated.

As for query tabs, I'm a little less sure about what happens, but I'm
pretty sure that anyone you might have an open query window with does
not get notification of your nick changes (ISTR seeing user requests
on this list within the past few months or so asking that functionality
be added to x-chat to notify users that you have an open query tab with
of your nick changes -- again, that's not a question of how x-chat
works; it's a matter of how IRC in general works). When you send
private messages to other users, the client may helpfully open a new
tab to help you keep track of your conversations, but the server isn't
maintaining any kind of state on who's having private conversations
with whom at any given time.

There's basically two ways around this:

1) Don't change nicks in public (i.e. in channels) if you don't want
   to announce to all users in those channels what your other nicks are.
2) You could eliminate the need for changing nicks by setting up
   separate connections for each of your nicks, though depending on the
   IRC net you use, and what kind of attention you're attracting to
   yourself, this may be against specific policies of the IRC net
   you're using.

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