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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/user-guide/commands.xml | 15 |
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diff --git a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml index a7d06cf1..931608ee 100644 --- a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml +++ b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml @@ -607,6 +607,21 @@ </description> </bitlbee-setting> + <bitlbee-setting name="nick_source" type="string" scope="account"> + <default>handle</default> + <possible-values>handle, full_name, first_name</possible-values> + + <description> + <para> + By default, BitlBee generates a nickname for every contact by taking its handle and chopping off everything after the @. In some cases, this gives very inconvenient nicknames. The Facebook XMPP server is a good example, as all Facebook XMPP handles are numeric. + </para> + + <para> + With this setting set to <emphasis>full_name</emphasis>, the person's full name is used to generate a nickname. Or if you don't like long nicknames, set this setting to <emphasis>first_name</emphasis> instead and only the first word will be used. Note that the full name can be full of non-ASCII characters which will be stripped off. + </para> + </description> + </bitlbee-setting> + <bitlbee-setting name="ops" type="string" scope="global"> <default>both</default> <possible-values>both, root, user, none</possible-values> |