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4.4 Ad-Hoc Commands

jabber.el supports a subset of JEP-0050, the standard for Ad-Hoc Commands. As the name implies, this can be used for just about anything. It has been used for remote-controlling clients (e.g. Psi), and administering services (e.g. PyMSNt).

Currently, jabber.el uses ad-hoc commands for setting presence remotely. If you realize that you forgot to set your client to “away” with a low priority, you can do it remotely.1

The commands for executing ad-hoc commands are available under the Service menu, which is opened by typing C-c C-s.

To find which commands are available, run “Request command-list” (jabber-ahc-get-list).2

To run a command from the list, put point over it and run “Execute command” (jabber-ahc-execute-command), accepting the defaults for JID and node. (If you already know those, you could of course enter them yourself) The form you get should hopefully be self-explanatory.


Footnotes

[1] Most Jabber servers also support kicking a client off the net by logging in with another client with exactly the same resource.

[2] This is the same thing as a disco items request to the node http://jabber.org/protocol/commands.