[OTR-users] Dropped large messages with Pidgin 2.5.5, OTR plugin , and Yahoo

[Conrad Meyer]

On Thursday 19 March 2009 02:13:10 pm Kat Hanna wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 March 2009 03:12:00 pm Ian Goldberg wrote:
> >> prpl-yahoo	800
> >>
> >> that's a tab between the protocol name and the number.
> >
> > Could that be made into something like /\s+/ (i.e. any number (greater
> > than zero) of whitespace characters other than newline)? It's hard to
> > type a tab if you have your editor configured for two-space tabs. (And
> > it's not like it would break existing configurations.)
>
> I was having that exact conversation with Ian when your email arrived.
> The reason he implemented it as a tab is that some protocol names have
> spaces in them.
>
> I'm suggesting using '=' as the delimiter.

Yes, if the protocol names can contain spaces then using a different kind of 
space for the deliminator in the file would be very confusing. I like your 
suggestion.

Regards,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>