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+2007-02-05  Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+       * sendmsg improvements: the bot sendmsg() method and all the methods
+       that rely on it (say(), notice(), and message methods such as reply())
+       now accept an option hash to customize its behaviour.
+               * :newlines, which can be set to either :split or :join,
+               depending on whether newlines in messages should be used as
+               split-points, or should be be replaced by some string (defined
+               in the :join_with option)
+               * :max_lines, which determines the maximum number of lines to be
+               sent by each messages. Last line is truncated (see next
+               options). Set to nil to have no limits.
+               * :overlong, which determines the behaviour when overlong lines
+               are to be sent; possible values are :split or :truncate.
+               * If :overlong is set to :split, :split_at determines the
+               string/regexp to split at; default is /\s+/, other usual
+               choice could be /\s+\|\s+/.
+               * If :overlong is set to :split, the :purge_split option
+               determines whether the :split_at expression should be removed
+               from the next lines (defaults to true).
+               * If :overlong is set to :truncate, the value of the option
+               :truncate_text is replaced at the end of the truncated line
+       * LinkBot plugin: initial commit of a plugin to handle messages from
+       eggdrops and other bots that act as cross-network channel links.
+       Suggested by hagabaka (Yaohan Chen <yaohan.chen@gmail.com>)
+
+
+2007-02-03  Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+       * Plugin message mapper: Enhancements to the :requirements option.
+       When the requirement of a parameter is a regular expression with
+       capturing groups /(...)/, the corresponding map parameters will be
+       assigned (by default) the first non-nil capture instead of the whole
+       regular expression. If a specific capture group is desired instead,
+       the requirement should be in the form
+               [/some regexp/, integer_index_of_the_desired_group]
+       or in the form
+               {
+               :regexp => /some regexp/,
+               :index => integer_index_of_the_desired_group
+               }
+       and a nil index will still give the default behavior.
+       If you want the whole regular expression to be the matched parameter
+       value, there are three options: use an index of 0, wrap the whole
+       regular expression in a capturing group, or use non-capturing groups
+       /(?:...)/. The latter is preferred because it's much faster.
+       When exploiting the capturing groups feature, please try to remember
+       to use /\s+/ instead of plain spaces / /, unless it's absolutely
+       necessary to have single spaces.
+
 2007-02-02  Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
 
        * Plugin message mapper: Requirements (as set by the :requirements