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diff --git a/doc/user-guide/misc.xml b/doc/user-guide/misc.xml index b55a8915..a926775a 100644 --- a/doc/user-guide/misc.xml +++ b/doc/user-guide/misc.xml @@ -68,15 +68,15 @@ Of course you can also create your own groupchats. Type <emphasis>help groupchat <title>Creating groupchats</title> <para> -If you want to start a groupchat with the person <emphasis>lisa_msn</emphasis> in it, just join the channel <emphasis>#lisa_msn</emphasis>. BitlBee will refuse to join you to the channel with that name, but it will create a new virtual channel with root, you and lisa_msn in it. +To open a groupchat, use the <emphasis>chat with</emphasis> command. For example, to start a groupchat with the person <emphasis>lisa_msn</emphasis> in it, just type <emphasis>chat with lisa_msn</emphasis>. BitlBee will create a new virtual channel with root, you and lisa_msn in it. </para> <para> -Of course a channel with only two people isn't really exciting yet. So the next step is to invite some other people to the channel. For this, you can use the <emphasis>/invite</emphasis> command of your IRC client. Please do keep in mind that all the people have to be on the same network and contact list! You can't invite Yahoo! buddies into an MSN groupchat. +Then, just use the ordinary IRC <emphasis>/invite</emphasis> command to invite more people. Please do keep in mind that all the people have to be on the same network and contact list! You can't invite Yahoo! buddies into an MSN groupchat. </para> <para> -Some protocols (like Jabber) also support named groupchats. BitlBee now supports these too. You can use the <emphasis>join_chat</emphasis> command to join them. See <emphasis>help join_chat</emphasis> for more information. +Some protocols (like Jabber) also support named groupchats. BitlBee now supports these too. You can use the <emphasis>chat add</emphasis> command to join them. See <emphasis>help chat add</emphasis> for more information. </para> </sect1> @@ -85,31 +85,35 @@ Some protocols (like Jabber) also support named groupchats. BitlBee now supports <title>Away states</title> <para> -As you might've expected, you can just use the <emphasis>/away</emphasis> command in your IRC client to set an away-state. BitlBee supports most away-states supported by the protocols. +To mark yourself as away, you can just use the <emphasis>/away</emphasis> command in your IRC client. BitlBee supports most away-states supported by the protocols. </para> <para> -Not all away states are supported by all protocols, and some protocols have different names for them. BitlBee will try to pick the best available alias from this list for every connection: +Away states have different names accross different protocols. BitlBee will try to pick the best available option for every connection: </para> <simplelist> - <member>Away from computer, Away, Extended away</member> - <member>NA, N/A, Not available</member> - <member>Busy, Do not disturb, DND, Occupied</member> - <member>Be right back, BRB</member> - <member>On the phone, Phone, On phone</member> - <member>Out to lunch, Lunch, Food</member> + <member>Away</member> + <member>NA</member> + <member>Busy, DND</member> + <member>BRB</member> + <member>Phone</member> + <member>Lunch, Food</member> <member>Invisible, Hidden</member> </simplelist> <para> -So <emphasis>/away Food</emphasis> will set your state to "Out to lunch" on your MSN connection, and for most other connections the default, "Away" or "Away from computer" will be chosen. +So <emphasis>/away Food</emphasis> will set your state to "Out to lunch" on your MSN connection, and for most other connections the default, "Away" will be chosen. </para> <para> You can also add more information to your away message. Setting it to "Busy - Fixing BitlBee bugs" will set your IM-away-states to Busy, but your away message will be more descriptive for people on IRC. Most IM-protocols can also show this additional information to your buddies. </para> +<para> +If you want to set an away state for only one of your connections, you can use the per-account <emphasis>away</emphasis> setting. See <emphasis>help set away</emphasis>. +</para> + </sect1> </chapter> |