See also: ideas.txt.

Stuff marked with [*] means, things that must be done before Alpha-2.
Once they're all finished, I'll tag alpha2 and post it on AA.

FujiChat features, we're almost at parity!

X Configurable ctcp version response. Not going to do for now. Having
  the git commit and date in the version response is more important,
  during the alpha release cycle.
- [*] Keyboard buffer, if possible. Right now we miss the occasional
  keystroke when typing fast & furious during network I/O. Not
  sure how to accomplish this with FujiNet (the old FujiChat
  key buffer actually hooked into the SLIP code). Use a VBI I
  guess. If that doesn't do it, it would require a custom SIO
  replacement... well, I have the OS source, so maybe.

Other stuff:

- [*] edit box issues with the 240th character. Example: fill up the buffer
  until it beeps, then left-arrow, then ^U.
- Maybe: if the user types 240 chars into the edit box, then tries to type
  another, the first 240 chars get sent to the server, the box clears, and
  the new keystroke appears as the start of a new message. On the fence
  about this one: irssi does it, but it might surprise people. Could make
  it a preference...
- Maybe: get rid of the Hide MOTD and Show PING/PONG preferences. People
  can always type /motd if they're interested, and the ping/pong stuff has
  been tested thoroughly by now.
- [*] Start+A should *always* switch windows, even if all are inactive.
  It can act like Start+Left in that case. Or (I'm told) Start+Tab might
  be better? Not sure about that one.
- [*] Auto-pinging the server seems to work, but needs more testing.
- If you "/m #channel message" or "/m nick message" from another
  screen besides the one for #channel or nick, the message should be
  printed locally in the correct screen, not the current one. Maybe
  or maybe not: switch to that screen.
- Load/save config files to N:SD///.FujiNetChat or such. Since we *have*
  to have a FujiNet anyway, might as well make better use of it.
- Rewrite the incoming message parser! It needs to work more like
  the command parser in cmd.c: know how many arguments to expect, and
  not blindly assume they're present. Also, replace strtok() and
  strstr() with nextarg().
- *Thoroughly* test the nick and channel tab completion for the [private]
  and [server] screens.
- Fix the nick completion in channel screens. It works, but needs some
  polishing up.
- More scrollback. Of course it needs more memory... see doc/scrollback.txt
  for my ideas on this.
- Server /ping command is iffy (see do_server_pong() in irc.c).
- "User has kicked <yourname> from #channel", the name should be
  replaced by "you".
- Gracefully handle nicks/channels whose lengths are stupid long.
  At least we shouldn't overflow any buffers.
- At least one keyboard macro (for ChanServ auth). More would
  be nice, if we can afford the RAM.
- Add an optional key parameter to /join (key). spec calls for it,
  I've never seen it used.
- *Possibly* save the config from within the client... though not
  all options can be changed (really only /nick and /beep). To
  make this useful would probably bloat the code too much. Some
  way to change the IRC server/port within the app would be very
  useful though.

Config file and initial config:

- The config tool should be rewritten in asm, for size. It doesn't
  need to be fast, but it needs to *load* fast.
- The config UI should be nicer. Dialog/curses style, arrows to move, and
  hotkeys like [S]erver, [N]ick. Categories (as tabs? tree?). I'm not
  going to get this right without some user feedback, since I'm mainly
  a CLI and text editor guy.
- There should be a file selector for load/save config.
More prefs:
- Ignore list (maybe).
- Connect macro (log in to bot).

Remember, the config has to be <= 512 bytes!