Find a better name for `dm` about matterhorn HOT 6 CLOSED

(So, /msg and /focus.)

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My thoughts:

• When /msg command appears in chat clients it's typically for messaging a user (not just focusing on a chat window)
• We could design the command so that it takes an optional message
• Internally we know the difference between users and channels. We could have a unified /-command that works as long as the channel or nickname is unambiguous. In the ambiguous case we would tell the user to use @ or # to differentiate. I'm assuming #27 gets fixed.

So it could be something like:

/msg (channel|username) [message] where [message] means it's optional.

I think I'd rather have two commands:

• /msg (channel|username) message -> sends a message to the channel or user without changing the focus in the UI
• /window (channel|username) -> changes the focus in the UI but doesn't send a message. I'm not tied to the verb choice here, /window is just an example. Other things could be equally effective.

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I like the two-command approach you proposed.

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Maybe /focus would be better than /window since we don't really have a notion of "window"?

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Right now, since we forward unrecognized commands to the server, we actually get /msg for free. If you message someone in this way in Matterhorn, it does what you expect even though /msg doesn't appear in our help output (since it is not a client command). I think this is kinda nice but is confusing. Instead of sending all unrecognized commands to the server, I'd rather whitelist them and add them to our /help output.

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Closed. WONTFIX. We accept pull requests in JIRA.

(Or, well, we don't actually have dm any more, and Jason and I both contend that the focus commands we have are fine.)

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