Settings

[DanielOaks]

There are lots of weird little settings to configure when using a bouncer. Nick to use, altnick, username/realname to send, etc.

@prawnsalad recommends that we for the most part clone how weechat does it, with keys like irc.<netname>.nick and similar. I'm a fan of that.

Commands:

• /msg *status set <key> <value> - sets the given key to the value.
• /msg *status unset <key> - unsets the given key if appropriate.
• /msg *status iset <searchstring> - searches for any keys matching the search string, displays them. This roughly matches how /iset is used in weechat, and should help discoverability.

Given it's a key/value format for settings, in the datastore we can just prepend them with a standard key prefix used for settings. Something along the lines of these:

settings.global <key> <value>                     (admin settings shared across the whole bnc)
settings.user <user> <key> <value>                (default nickname, username, etc)
settings.network <user> <network> <key> <value>   (network nick, user, realname, etc)

By default we'll work out whether it's a global, user or network key based on the syntax (for instance, irc.* keys are always user-scoped, etc).

Of course, add *controlpanel aliases so that peeps familiar with ZNC can continue using their syntax instead of ours.