Comments on: please help me edit this xchat python script

By: Adam Roben

Adam Roben — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:45:41 +0000

The only problem with that updated script is that it doesn’t accept “bug 20000″ (with two spaces) as a bug reference. When chatting it’s very easy to insert extra spaces, but the new script will only match one space (unlike the original which accepted any number of spaces, including 0). But it does fix the recursion problem, so I guess that’s a step forward.

By: Ali Ebrahim

Ali Ebrahim — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 01:29:36 +0000

Thanks everyone. It was the recursion that was the problem. The script author actually provided me with an updated version with a fix, and what he did was just have it output something like:

“bug 20000 (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20000)”

(with two spaces between bug and the number).

You can find his updated version of the script here.

By: [ct]

[ct] — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 05:36:25 +0000

Perhaps you could put formatting around it (e.g. put the bug text in bold) and then match every bug link that isn’t preceded by a bold formatting character…

By: Adam Roben

Adam Roben — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 04:25:13 +0000

The problem seems to be (for me at least) that when you output “bug 20000 (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20000)” this string gets run through all of your scripts again. So since the replacement string contains “bug 20000″ the script gets called again, and again, and again, putting XChat in an infinite loop and causing a segfault. I don’t know if there’s a way to tell XChat not to run scripts on the output string (and you probably wouldn’t want to since then you couldn’t click on the URL), but a solution is to change BUGZILLA_URL to this:

BUGZILLA_URL = lambda num: “bugg ” + num.group(1) + ” (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=” + num.group(1) + “)”

Notice the “bugg” rather than “bug” Now you get “bugg 20000 ” so the script is not triggered again. Of course, you can change this however you want (”bug! 20000″ or “bug…20000″, or anything that doesn’t match your regexp). Hope this helps.

By: Ali Ebrahim

Ali Ebrahim — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 00:38:27 +0000

Hmm, this last suggestion actually crashes my XChat. Thanks for trying, though.

By: rrr

rrr — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 23:14:07 +0000

Try again:

Replace the square brackets below with less than/greater than:

BUGZILLA_URL = “bug \g[1](http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=\g[1])”

By: rrr

rrr — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 22:52:22 +0000

Your lambda seems to work for me (if I understand what you want correctly). Try using the string below as an alternative (for an explanation see the re module reference)

BUGZILLA_URL = “bug \g(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=\g)”

By: [ct]

[ct] — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 13:17:31 +0000

Unfortunately, I can’t help you out with the Python thingy, but after you pointed me to the Perl version, I wrote my own version which just catches anything that matches Bug (numbers) and gives you the URL. It’s all _I_ was really looking for. Perhaps you’ll find it useful: http://users.telenet.be/ct/bugzilla-xchat.pl