NickCapture

Purpose

This module attempts to capture the bot’s nick, watching for an opportunity to switch to that nick.

Usage

This plugin constantly tries to take whatever nick is configured as supybot.nick. Just make sure that’s set appropriately, and this plugin will do the rest.

Configuration

supybot.plugins.NickCapture.ison

This config variable defaults to “True”, is not network-specific, and is not channel-specific.

Determines whether the bot will check occasionally if its preferred nick is in use via the ISON command.

supybot.plugins.NickCapture.ison.period

This config variable defaults to “600”, is not network-specific, and is not channel-specific.

Determines how often (in seconds) the bot will check whether its nick ISON.

supybot.plugins.NickCapture.public

This config variable defaults to “True”, is not network-specific, and is not channel-specific.

Determines whether this plugin is publicly visible.