I got irritated of getting kicked off irc around 20 times and the associated ghosting and renicking. So I sat down and wrote something that would keep me t3rmin4t0r on freenode.

import re,xchat

nick_pat = re.compile(":(?P<nick>[^!]*)!(?P<user>[^@]*)@(?P<host>.*)")

def renick(*args):
    nickhost = args[0][0]
    m = nick_pat.match(nickhost)
    if(m.groups()[0] == "t3rmin4t0r"):
        xchat.command("nick t3rmin4t0r");

xchat.hook_server('QUIT', renick)

Load that up with /py load ~/.xchat2/pylugins/re-t3.py and now I can stop worrying about being stuck as a mere gopal__ on irc.

posted at: 21:06 | path: /hacks | permalink | Tags: public, hacks, xchat