How to open a private chat buffer after closing it?

[pretentious7]

After a private chat buffer is closed, is it possible to open it again without reconnecting? For IRC I'd do it with /query but that doesn't work here.

[poljar]

If you only close the buffer or if you /part as well? /join works for the latter.

[demlak]

I used /buffer close to close it. when i take a look via riot-webclient, it is still there but i can't reopen it in weechat-matrix - by /j $room_id
(No error Message)

/buffer list does not show it.. so /buffer unhide does not work

Disconnecting and reconnecting to the server doesn't help to reopen the closed buffer.

any suggestions?

[poljar]

I'm afraid nothing of the sorts is implemented. Reloading the script or restarting Weechat is the only way to get it back, unless someone sends a message in the room.

[ilf]

This would be a very useful. And vice versa: It's very annoying not to have this.

Is there any bigger underlying functionality that needs to be implemented for this? Or is it rather straight forward, it "just" needs to be done?

[poljar]

It just needs to be done, though the exact commands need to be designed, closing the buffer should also leave the room.

This script is in maintenance-only mode and further development continues over at https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix-rs.

If you have ideas how the commands should look and behave for creating rooms and DMing users feel free to open an issue over there.

[ilf]

IMHO the command should be a simple IRC-style "/query user".

I understand you're focused on weechat-matrix-rs, but that sais it's "work in progress and doesn't do much yet". I very much appreciate your work, but it feels like there are two half-baked versions of weechat-matrix: the old done does a lot but it's missing a few tweaks to make it a propoer client, the new one is promising but it's still not production-ready.

Would this feature be a lot of work for the old one?

[ilf]

@3v1n0 created a PR fixing this: #338

What's needed to get it merged?