Re: mutliline input newlines replaced with spaces

Noah Friedman <[email protected]> writes:

> The current input mechanism works by sending all the text from the process
> mark to the end of the line point is on, as a single message (which may be
> split if it exceeds the maximum message length in the irc protocol).
>
> The practical upshot of that mechanism is that if you want to send text
> line-by-line, then paste what you want into the buffer, go back up to the
> beginning, and hit return on each line.  Since point advances
> automatically, you can just hit return a bunch of times with no
> intermediate motion commands.

Ah with the point advancing that's perfectly reasonable.

> Be warned that rapidly sending a bunch of lines can get you knocked off
> the server for "flooding", or at the very least will throttle your
> connection so that you are very lagged.

Yeah I learned what flooding is the hard way a long time ago ;-)

Thanks for the reply, I'm satisfied.  My experiments with 

          (while (string-match "\n" string posn)
            (aset string (match-beginning 0) 32)
            (setq posn (match-end 0)))

in

(defun zenirc-send-line ()

weren't successful anyway.  I was contemplating going for splitting on
\n and recursively calling zenirc-send-line. 

Cheers,

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