Re: Improving the WHOIS format

On 11/01/2012 20:53, Dwayne Henderson wrote:
> Hey!
>
> Any chance we can improve Irssi's WHOIS format in the source?
>
> Basically the parts that say "ircname", "signon", "usermode", "mins" and
> "secs" which I believe ought to be "Name", "Sign-on" and "User mode"
> etc., like this:
>
> whois = "{nick $0} {nickhost $1@$2}%:{whois Name $3}";
> whowas = "{nick $0} {nickhost $1@$2}%:{whois Was $3}";
> whois_idle = "{whois Idle %|$1 days $2 hours $3 minutes $4 seconds}";
> whois_idle_signon = "{whois Idle %|$1 days $2 hours $3 mins $4 seconds
> {comment Sign-on: $5}}";
> whois_server = "{whois Server %|$1 {comment $2}}";
> whois_modes = " {whois Modes $1}";
> whois_realhost = "{whois Name $1-}";
> whois_usermode = "{whois Mode $1}";
> whois_channels = "{whois Channels %|$1}";
> whois_away = "{whois Away %|$1}";
> whois_special = "{whois %|$1}";
> whois_extra = {whois Account %|$1}
>
> Hoping that one day I can take this out of my theme file.
>
> Much obliged!
>
> --Dwayne

Have you thought about all the people that are quite happy with this 
formatting? Why should they have to change their themes due to a change 
to just to suit your tastes?

The entire point of theming is that if you don't like the default, you 
are free to change it locally to something you do like.

Jase.