Re: [Freeciv] Re: [Freeciv-Dev] patch to allow more : on chatline

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reinier Post wrote:
> 
> Well, 'foo: withdraw!' and 'foo:withdraw!' are likely to be used
> for private messages; 'foo :withdraw' is not.  Too many messages
> are treated as private to nonexistent players.  This is an easy
> way to rrule out a particular category.

Ok, how about this:

- if there is ':':
  - if it matches one player unambiguously, send to that one player
  - if it matches several players ambiguously, complain
  - if some heuristics apply (':' first on line, or space anywhere
     before ':') then treat as global message
  - else complain (might be a malformed private message)
- else send globally

-- David