Bug 58666

Summary:	Tab completion is quirky in XChat
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	David Lloyd <dmlloyd>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Packages in net-irc <net-irc>
Status:	VERIFIED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	minor	CC:	gnome
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description David Lloyd 2004-07-28 08:27:56 UTC

If you're in an IRC channel and there's two people with similar nicks, like this:

david
DavidLloyd

and you type 'dav' then hit tab to complete, it completes to 'David' instead of 'david', which is kind of annoying.

The reason for this, as far as I can see, is that the sorting of nicks is wrong.  It seems to internally sort in this order: coolguy DavidLloyd david egad
rather than the more correct: coolguy david DavidLloyd egad


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Join IRC channel that has two nicks that differ in case, with one being a lowercase prefix to the other (i.e., foo and FOOBAR)
2. Type a full or partial match to the shorter nick, hit tab
3. See the incorrect caps

Actual Results:  
i.e., FOO

Expected Results:  
foo

Comment 1 David Lloyd 2004-07-28 08:36:39 UTC

After further testing, I have conculded that in general, longer nicks are sorted before shorter nicks:

aaa
bbbbb
bbb
ccc

rather than:

aaa
bbb
bbbbb
ccc

Comment 2 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-28 17:52:55 UTC

i believe net-irc deals with xchat now?

Comment 3 Sven Wegener gentoo-dev

2004-07-31 05:33:33 UTC

I've commited a fix for this to CVS, please test.

Comment 4 David Lloyd 2004-11-29 14:39:08 UTC

It looks as if tab completion was completely redone in some later version of xchat (I'm using 2.4.0 now).  As far as I'm concerned, this can be closed.

Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-29 14:42:53 UTC

it was in 2.4 afaik