From 69a0d5578e4040b1feb44c01e175253565c2dd11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alex <alex@danny>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 11:27:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Strip out leading #/! from tags in stream for Facebook and Pidgin

---
 gwibber/microblog/facebook.py |    2 ++
 gwibber/pidgin.py             |    3 +++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gwibber/microblog/facebook.py b/gwibber/microblog/facebook.py
index af5ce2a..6a1f58d 100644
--- a/gwibber/microblog/facebook.py
+++ b/gwibber/microblog/facebook.py
@@ -93,5 +93,7 @@ class Client:
       yield Message(self, data)
 
   def send(self, message):
+    # Facebook doesn't really want to see !tag and #tag's in it's output
+    message = re.sub(" [\!#]{1}", " ", message)    
     self.facebook.users.setStatus(message, False)
 
diff --git a/gwibber/pidgin.py b/gwibber/pidgin.py
index 8de0fe1..d33f07c 100644
--- a/gwibber/pidgin.py
+++ b/gwibber/pidgin.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ SegPhault (Ryan Paul) - 11/09/2008
 """
 from . import gintegration
 import dbus
+import re
 from microblog import can
 
 PROTOCOL_INFO = {
@@ -30,5 +31,7 @@ class Client:
     return self.account["send_enabled"]
 
   def send(self, message):
+    # Strip out leading (!#) !tag and #tag's for pidgin
+    message = re.sub(" [\!#]{1}", " ", message)    
     if gintegration.service_is_running("im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService"):
       gintegration.set_pidgin_status_text(message)
-- 
1.6.0.6