[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Fwd: Chatline commands echoed only partially (PR#2252)

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 11:05:08AM +0100, Reinier Post wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 11:38:06PM +0200, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > I have filed this as PR#2252, but jitterbug failed to sending it
> > to the list:
> > 
> > 
> > BETA1 server with CVS client gtk 1.2
> > 
> > Just discovered on civserver.freeciv.org:
> > 
> > When someone gives a buggy server command like
> > 
> > /ai <nonexistent player>
> > 
> > in the client chatline, everybody sees the command echoed,
> > but only the person who issued the command sees the error
> > message. The result might be confusion about what commands
> > have been given or not.
> 
> This was done on purpose ... what would you prefer?:
> 
>   - echo the failing command with some indication that it failed
>   - only echo successful commands

The latter.

Christian

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