Re: [jabber.el] Long strings instead of names in Google Talk

[Martin J. <ja...@ja...>]

Hi,

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 12:03 PM Mandar Mitra <man...@gm...> wrote:
>
> I've been using emacs-jabber very happily for 1:1 chats on Google
> Hangouts, but recently, jabber-roster has started displaying strings
> of the form
>
>  * 22r...@pu... Online
>  * 0ek...@pu... Away
>      MessagingA53984b2d - Away (), priority 0
>      messaging-lcsw_hangouts_43734ED5 - Away (), priority 0
>  * 0ze...@pu... Away
>
> in addition to regular names.
>

I have been experiencing the same issue in the past few weeks.
I assume it has something to do with Google deleting Google Plus
related stuff.

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 5:26 PM Mandar Mitra <man...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Following up on my own email: I dug around a bit more, and can think
> of a workaround, but am not sure how to implement it.
>
> The documentation says the %n specifier in jabber-roster-line-format
> corresponds to "Nickname of contact, or JID if no
> nickname". Apparently, the problematic lines provide JIDs only, but
> no nicknames.
>
> I can use jabber-vcard-get to get the vcard for a contact that's
> showing up as a JID only.

Thanks for the tip, this vcard then always actually displayed the
contact's proper name and so I finally knew who they were.  I then
manually edited the contact (with jabber-roster-edit-action-at-point,
or just pressing "e") and changed the name to the proper one.  I
usually had to do it twice for the change to take effect but I was
able to fix the five or six contacts that were un-decipherable strings
before I read your email.

So thanks a lot, I hope you'll also be able to fix the problem too.

Martin


> I should be able to use bits of
> jabber-vcard-display to extract the "Full name", which is what I'd
> like to see displayed in the roster.
>
> But I don't know how to put all the pieces together. Can someone
> please help?
>
> Thanks,
> Mandar.
>