I think you missed his point

Quote:

[Dan] End of /WHOIS list.
Please note the last line. {} it's replaced with [].


I see that too. The buggy part is that when doing a whois in a non-status window, I get the whois in the status but the last line in my active window:
Code:
[xyzzy] End of /WHOIS list.
-


That's definitely not expected behaviour.