Support replying to a specific message.

[Juliaria08]

The readme states Support replying to a specific message. as a planned feature.

With the message ID option enabled, it should be possible to build a "?reply" command, which would use the behaviour described on a github issue comment and just remove the first line (which would be the "?reply MessageID" line) from the response?

[hoehermann]

Thank you for the request. The link to the explanation of how to implement it is useful.

I can do a ?reply command, though I will likely implement this feature using a sub-string search. Starting a message with "@search:" will create a reply to the conversation's most recent message containing the word "search". This worked quite well in https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-signald and feels more natural to me than handling message IDs. :)

[Juliaria08]

I can do a ?reply command, though I will likely implement this feature using a sub-string search. Starting a message with "@search:" will create a reply to the conversation's most recent message containing the word "search". This worked quite well in https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-signald and feels more natural to me than handling message IDs. :)

Could the option to give it the message ID still be kept, as IIRC the plugin forgets the id of messages that were sent the last time pidgin was executed, (ie, if you restart pidgin or I guess bitlbee too? you wouldn't be able to reply to messages that were received locally before you restarted)

[hoehermann]

Noted.