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Deal with buddies on MSN more gracefully. Look ahead to see if we have information about the protocol of the buddy, because by the time we process the protocol, we may have done too many other things, e.g. update status, set idleness etc., which means the real buddy doesn't get updated properly.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.