Permit the removal of nicks and clipped indications in split messages

[dollhaus]

This is primarily a request for IRC, but could potentially work on other services.

At present, a split message in IRC looks like this:

bridge | : foo bridge | : bar bridge | : baz

When a message covers multiple lines, this can be difficult to read. I'd like to have the option of the following:

bridge | : foo bridge | bar bridge | baz

In the second example, both the handle of the speaker and the indicator are removed, relying on the flow of conversation instead of using delineators.

Here is an example of where this could be helpful:

As you can see, this discussion is somewhat hard to follow because the flow of text is disturbed by the presence of a handle and delineator in the middle of it. Removing these would make the text much easier to read.

The only potential issue I see is the possibility of messages being interrupted by another speaker - but in smaller channels this is rare, and I don't see it being a problem.

[bkil]

I do not support this. This request could interfere when using multiple relay bots, or a script on a bouncer or client that would reformat received messages from relay bots to attribute them to their original senders. If a message line is stripped from the sender information, the forwarded message will thus be misattributed. Some examples to help you understand this better:

• https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/issues/854 ExtractNicks
• https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/rcircForDiscordBridge
• https://github.com/SrainApp/srain/blob/master/docs/faq.rst#what-is-relay-message-transform