On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 10:22 -0500, Jeremy Nelson wrote: > So many of you know this, so bear with me: > /SEND sends a message to the window's current target > /SAY sends a message to the window's current channel. > If you have a /query going in a window with a channel, the /query overrides > the channel as the current target. This is the purpose of /say, to be able > to msg a channel in a window where you have a /query going. > > Historically the /exec -out command has always used the /say command to > redirect the output. Recently it has been requested that we switch to > using /send so it can be possible to /exec -out to a query. > > This change will mean if you have a channel and a /query in the same > window, then /exec -out will send to the query, and not the channel.
Personally, I think you're not really gaining anything by doing this, but you are losing something in breaking backwards compatibility. Consider that, if you currently want to send /exec to the person you're talking to in a query, you need to do /exec -m <querydestination>; with the change, if you were talking in a query and wanted output to go to the channel, you'd have to do /exec -m <channel> instead of /exec -o. Basically, I don't see any net in making the change. > This seems reasonable enough to me, but it is a break from backwards > compatability, so it needs to be discussed and vetted in public. > What do you all think? I think that a new /exec flag that uses /send instead of /say might be a better approach. > Jeremy -- Ben Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@epicsol.org http://epicsol.org/mailman/listinfo/list
