Have bot respond to its nick when automatically renamed on connect

[bobsilverberg]

We have found that sometimes, when the bot is cycled, it reconnects to the room before its old nick is released, and therefore reconnects with a different, deduplicated nick. E.g., instead of connecting with my_robot, it uses my_robot1, which is automatically generated by the irc server.

When that happens the robot will not respond to its new nick, e.g., my_robot1, but only the nick it was expecting, e.g., my_robot. This makes it difficult and confusing for users to interact with.

This seems like something that would need to be dealt with via the irc adapter, hence I am opening this issue.

[davehunt]

It looks like we could use bot.nick after connecting to set the robot name. Something like:

@robot.name = options.nick
bot = new Irc.Client options.server, options.nick, client_options

bot.addListener 'registered', (message) ->
  # The 'registered' event is fired when you are connected to the server
  @robot.name = bot.nick
  if options.connectCommand?
    strings = options.connectCommand.split " "
    self.command strings.shift(), strings...