[Pidgin] #1784: Crashes autocompleting irc nicks

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#1784: Crashes autocompleting irc nicks
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  Reporter:  craigmcfly    |       Owner:                      
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  new                 
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:                      
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0.2               
Resolution:                |    Keywords:  irc, crash, nickname
   Pending:  1             |  
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Comment (by slainangel):

 Seeing the same problem with 2.0.2-0.fc5, about 5 times a day on average.
 No crash report, no error messages, all logfiles are cleanly closed and
 the IRC server receives my normal quit message. Looks to me like pressing
 tab is occasionally interpreted somewhere as a command to exit.

 Noticed a few commonalities, some may be coincidence, some may be
 relevant:
 I have a long conversation (several minutes) on MSN, or in a private query
 with an IRC contact. I use alt+tab to switch back to channel, and then try
 to tab-complete a name and pidgin just exits. I have only seen this happen
 immediately after switching back to channel, on the first line I type
 (whether the nick I'm completing is at the beginning of the line or not).
 I have only seen this happen when switching windows with alt+tab, not when
 using the mouse (although I tend to stick to keyboard-only 90% of the time
 anyway). I have only seen this happen when switching from a pidgin window
 containing a 1-on-1 conversation (never yet when switching from another
 IRC channel, another application or the contact list) to an IRC channel
 (although I have never tried tab-complete in any other window, don't even
 know if it works).
 Also, in about 3/4 of the instances I've seen, the name I'm trying to
 complete ends with a "`" backtick. As this isn't very common (only 3 or 4
 people with such nicks in channels with an average population of 50), I
 figured it might be relevant. If so, when I'm completing a name without
 this character, it could be that the few letters I typed also matched
 someone else's nick who had one.

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