[Erc-help] Re: Other modes than op and voice in ERC-4.0?

[Lawrence M. <we...@gm...>]

thomas weidner wrote:

> i noticed ERC only handles op and voice as usermodes and nick prefixes.
> AFAIK this is correct as they are the only ones mentioned in the RFC, but
> many chatnetworks define aditional prefixes. some networks i use even
> define 5! The server correctly reports 'PREFIX=(qaohv)*!@%+"
> (founder,admin,op,half-op,voice). It whould be really nice it ERC had
> support for these additional modes either hardcoded or by parsing the
> PREFIX option. Is this wanted,does someone work on it/is willing to work
> on it?

This /should/ be relatively simple to add.  However, it's
difficult to know what to do with non-standard prefixes, since
they're only informally specified.  The thing to do is to modify
the erc-channel-user struct to support more usermodes, and then
modify the parsing in erc-update-modes to match more different
modes.  Do you have any examples where recognising these extra
usermodes is useful?

-- 
Lawrence Mitchell <we...@gm...>