[Bug 23005] Room listing for IRC not working

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23005

--- Comment #8 from Robin Burchell <viroteck at viroteck.net> 2011-03-22 07:20:25 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > The normal way to list channels in a dedicated IRC client like irssi is with
> > "/list PATTERN", which lists channels matching PATTERN (which is a shell-style
> > glob, I think?).
> 
> Actually, this isn't how this works: LIST only supports specifying a single
> channel name, to get its number of occupants and topic (or an error if it
> doesn't exist).

To further muddy the waters, a large number of server variants actually do
support listing with wildcards. Thankfully, there is a recognised detection
mechanism to find out *if* it is supported: RPL_ISUPPORT (005)'s ELIST token.
(I'm not certain *everything* uses this, but if it doesn't, well... bad luck
for them?)

See: http://www.irc.org/tech_docs/005.html

Basically, you want to look for 'M' in ELIST's value if I remember rightly.

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