Have /away toggle state

/away should toggle your state - i.e., if you’re away, it should mark you as /back, and if you’re around, it should mark you as /away

[xPaw]

Why would anyone ever try to /away twice though?

/away getting food then you realize you have to go for who knows how long, then you do /away

[autra]

/help away in thelounge does say:

AWAY :[MSG]

Without an argument, it will set you back. With an argument, it will set you as AWAY with the specified message.

To elaborate, my path was the following:

• Use /away in a channel, thinking it will clear my status.
• I had no feedback whatsoever (the feedback in on the Freenode tab, not where you type the command, but the sidebar doesn’t display that i have a new message on Freenode tab) so I thought it worked ok
• Later, much later, I realized that it didn’t work
• I did /help away, which didn’t clear the confusion at all
• I searched thelounge issues and find this one
• yes, sorry, I didn’t read the linked PR, mainly because of this comment above

The rationale behind this is explained in #745 (but we did not mention the toggle).

So, the user experience is not great here. Let me suggest several possible improvements:

• change the /help away message, mandatory imo. Most users won’t care about the standard as soon as things are explained properly. Also populate the /help back command (currently says “back Help not found”)
• display clearly the current user status somewhere (to make it obvious what your current status is)
• and/or display the You have been marked as <> message in all channels (like weechat does for example)
• maybe also have a visual hint in the sidebar when something happens in the server chan?

If thelounge decides to go against the standard (which is understandable in this case, no strong opinion either way), please document it and show it properly in your UI, otherwise you’ll need to downvote many more users like me in issues like this one @brunnre8 😆

Thanks for your understanding.