From eb3a44a71328fd600450782a042fd075434eec55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ailin-nemui <ailin-nemui@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:55:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] clarifying comment

---
 src/irc/core/irc.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/irc/core/irc.c b/src/irc/core/irc.c
index 4adbfcc9..3c7e30c0 100644
--- a/src/irc/core/irc.c
+++ b/src/irc/core/irc.c
@@ -160,7 +160,10 @@ static char *split_nicks(const char *cmd, char **pre, char **nicks, char **post,
 	*pre = g_strdup(cmd);
 	*post = *nicks = NULL;
 
-	if (**pre == '@') { /* message-tags */
+	if (**pre == '@') {
+		/* the message-tags "add" one space separated argument
+		   in front of the non message-tagged IRC commands. So
+		   the nicks are now off-set by one to the right. */
 		arg++;
 	}