Forums Bug Reports Empty "ACTION" PRIVMSG not displayed

Early this morning, i watched a quite weird activity on one of my favorite channels :



For those of you who don't understand french, Arrêtez de vous répéter! means Stop repeating yourself!. As you can guess, LangoChat is an Epona BotServ bot, kicking KIKOULOL for flooding the channel #LangoChat with several times the same message.

The problem is I don't see any message from him during the time he was on that channel. Damned, my brand new scripted layout must be drunk, that 'ucking script didn't catch the on ^*:ACTION:*:*: event.

Thanks god, I was running a work in progress version and an infamous /debug -n @debug window was opened. There, I read a nice :



There we are, he was using ACTION PRIVMSG, also known as /me or /describe text, but without any embedded text. A bit like doing a /raw PRIVMSG #LangoChat : $+ $chr(1) $+ ACTION $chr(1).

I asked another network admin which I know was using another client, xchat. His logs showed a nice :



I used our Epona bot to send a few $chr(1) $+ ACTION $chr(1) messages to my test channel, and while the debug window showed nice PRIVMSG #Test :
ACTION
, even with remotes off, mIRC didn't display a single thing.


Of course, Epona and XChat may have different point of view about what should I do with empty messages and it's not like it's a critical bug, but it sure would have held a few why the 'uck was this guy kicked questions.


(Being a non-native speaker but a natural born punk, every single typing and grammatical error is intended)

I tried in 3 networks and I had the same

mIRC doesnt show the empty action privmsg but the BotServ and Eggdrops kicked me.

Indeed, mIRC probably should display such messages, if only for the reason those bots behaved how they did: flooding. It'd be pretty annoying for someone on a slow connection to have major disruptions due to flooding and not even know why it was happening.