Add ability to sendPrivate

[selenamarie]

The IRC adapter added sendPrivate for redirecting long output to privmsg. Making this the default on IRC would be amazing.

IDK if people want to add something to configure it to send to channel, but in most cases, I don't think people want all the output going to the whole IRC channel by default.

[therealklanni]

Can you add tests to cover this?

[therealklanni]

Please also take a look at #1 (comment) to see if you want to take a crack at the suggestion given there.

Namely something along the lines of

      switch robot.adapterName
        when 'slack'
          if robot.messageRoom
            robot.messageRoom msg.envelope.user.id, emit
        when 'irc'
          if msg.sendPrivate
            msg.sendPrivate emit
        when 'hipchat'
          robot.send msg.user, emit

If you have time to implement it, the help would be greatly appreciated. I know a lot of Hubot users would love to have better help responses. If not, no worries, your contributions are definitely appreciated either way. 👍

[technicalpickles]

We could merge this, but I think it'll only really help IRC users currently, as I don't know of any other adapters using msg.sendPrivate. It seems like we might need something upstream in hubot core to allow sending privately so things like hipchat, irc, slackchat could use it.

[TobiTenno]

I think this could be valuable if any movement has been made on it.

[stale]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[mose]

I'm closing that PR because in the while, HUBOT_HELP_REPLY_IN_PRIVATE was implemented, which addresses this issue.

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