Overflowing the input window in IRC causes the window to lock

[Stuart Metcalfe]

If I have my IRC window full-screen and type more text than fits in a single row of the text input field, the window locks and I need to close all tabs in that window then re-open them to be able to continue chatting. Interestingly:

 * closing each tab doesn't update the UI so it looks like all tabs are still open until I close the last, then the window disappears. The window title is, however, updated with the new tab's title.
 * if I press enter after the long string has caused the window to freeze, the string is sent to the channel but I don't see it and it doesn't appear in my chat logs.

FWIW, Pidgin handles this overflow nicely by increasing the vertical size of the input field, allowing multi-line entry.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: empathy 3.1.91-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 22 10:06:43 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-10 (11 days ago)