contrib/clients: Warn about Hexchat password limit

Hexchat truncates passwords, so add a warning about that and a
workaround for Sourcehut users.
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Enterprisey 2023-01-22 23:40:53 -05:00 committed by Simon Ser
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@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ outgoing messages:
/set irc_reconnect_rejoin off
/set net_throttle off
Older Hexchat versions (without the [hexchat password length fix]) do not
support long passwords, which include personal access tokens from sourcehut with
limited scope. To work around this issue for sourcehut, [generate a sourcehut
personal access token] without limiting the grant (by not selecting any
permissions).
# [irssi]
Assuming you want to connect irssi to your soju instance for one network
@ -115,5 +121,7 @@ See `/help cap` for more information.
[soju.py]: https://weechat.org/scripts/source/soju.py.html/
[read_marker.py]: https://weechat.org/scripts/source/read_marker.py.html/
[Hexchat]: https://hexchat.github.io/
[hexchat password length fix]: https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/commit/778047bc65e529804c3342ee0f3a8d5d7550fde5
[generate a sourcehut personal access token]: https://meta.sr.ht/oauth2/personal-token
[Emacs]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
[irssi]: https://irssi.org/