Topic shown on channel join

[mercster]

Hi, as is usually the case, when halloy joins a channel, /topic is sent to show to the user. However I use halloy to connect to irc proxies. I am starting halloy to join an IRC session already in progress, and the topic shown every single time I start it up isn't great.

Is there any way I can get it to stop showing me the topic in the main buffer everytime I run halloy and it "joins" the channels? (It's not really joining, again, it is connecting to a proxy already joined to the channels.)

I tried messing with buffer.channel.topic, but that's obviously not doing what I'm asking. Thanks for any help.

[casperstorm]

https://halloy.chat/configuration/buffer.html#bufferserver_messages

Check out the topic server message.

[buffer.server_messages.topic]
enabled = false

[mercster]

I read that as, "when the topic is changed, show"... which is what I would want, just dont want the topic echoed at channel join.

[andymandias]

A /topic command is not sent by Halloy, a RPL_TOPIC message is sent by the server in response to Halloy's JOIN command (as is required to do). Some quick testing shows that some bouncers will send RPL_TOPIC for "joined" channels even if Halloy doesn't send a JOIN command (if you want to try with your IRC proxy, comment out/remove channels from your channel list in your configuration file, and Halloy will not send a JOIN command for those channels).

RPL_TOPIC messages are the ones that are filtered by buffer.server_messages.topic, but AFAIK there's no way for Halloy to distinguish between the one's sent for "joins" and the ones for joins. I'll try to clarify the setting's description.

[mercster]

Thanks for the info. Yeah it's kind of a weird situation, a client is joining a channel.. that the user has already joined. Wonder what the server thinks about getting a join for an already joined user. Anyway, this is something small that I doubt bothers anyone else. The descriptions of the config entires could be a bit better, but only in the sense that it would help people that don't know a lot about IRC message passing works. Cheers.